Run Your Ass Off

Finally walking again

Much has happened since I last posted.  Sadly, this post is my first post of the new year, 2008, and I’m currently heavier than ever.

However, I’ve started walking again.  No longer permitted to run.

I am walking, at last. I at least walk the dog every day, but I’m also moving toward walking instead of driving, at least in town. I’ve joined the Park Forest Ten Ton Challenge, and I’m trying to really lose weight. Unfortunately, my last weigh-in was 251 pounds. This is heavier than I’ve ever been in my life.

There’s no doubt about it, as former Pittsburgh Pirate’s announcer Bob Prince used to say, I need to lose this weight. I’d love to be down to 200 pounds by December 31. That’s possible. It’s just that Hugh Dzhass has caught up with me, and I can’t take this lightly (pun intended) any more. This isn’t funny. I look at work ID photos from years ago and I actually see someone who looked in shape, even though during my Marathon days I still thought I was overweight.

Now I’m overweight. And it’s way too much. I’m only permitted to take my heart rate up to 120 beats per minute, but I can do that and still consider what I’m doing exercising.

Time to take the weight off.

Today I walked four miles total. Tomorrow I hope to walk four more miles with the Turtle Walkers at the Chestnut St. entrance to the Forest Preserve in Park Forest. We start at 8:00 a.m.

Join us!

Anger as motivation

In my strong running days, anger was often good motivation to run. If I was pissed off at someone or something, that experience could carry me 7 miles or more in a 10 mile run. Some days I would be upset at myself. Sometimes it would be something that happened at work.

It didn’t matter. Anger was great motivation. I don’t know that I ever solved anything while running, but I was able to process some pretty strong feelings.

Well, that’s all for now. Just an initial thought on the matter.