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Purgatory run today

rafael — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:21:28 +0000

I’m going out to Purgatory park for a quick run today. I say quick, but I really mean short. I don’t know what happened that I got so far out of shape, and by out of shape I mean fat, in the last couple of months.

I think I’m allergic to P90X, since every time I get started doing it, I either get sick, get an infection or both. Well, regardless of P90X or not, I’m going to back into the swing of things. This is my deadline year, so I only have until December to run my ultra marathon or do my half iron man triathlon.

Honestly, methinks it’ll be the ultra since I hate riding the bike.

I figured that out this morning when I was talking to my son’s mom. My son is riding the MS150, which is a 150 mile bike race/ride over the summer so he needs to train and spend time on the bike. I wish I could do that with him, but I just have no desire to get on a bike.

Now that I think about it some more, I think my deal is with a road bike. Maybe there’s an off road duathlon or something that I can do… Nah, forget about it. Ultra marathon or half iron man, that’s what I’m shooting for.

For the record, I swam 1200 yard yesterday at the YMCA and totally felt my girth. I even took a picture of my girthness for posterity.

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Yesterday’s swim

rafael — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:50:01 +0000

The swim was rockin! I had a great time. We did a 3 sets of 3 x 200 descend 1-3 and I was kicking ass. It was cool cuz I felt like I was just cruisin yet my times were decent. Anyway, my right arm was feeling weird during the middle set, and sure enough coach told me that I was entering the water flat with my right arm, so I adjusted my stroke and I was golden again.

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Like a Manatee

rafael — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:50:00 +0000

I went swimming with my son this afternoon. We were working out having a good time. When suddenly he busted out with you look like a manatee

What we were doing I was showing him how to push off the wall and be streamlined as he pushed off the wall. What he gathered from that is that I look like a freaking manatee.

I wasn’t so much upset that he said that it looked like a manatee, actually let me rephrase that I was upset that he said I looked like a manatee.

Why couldn’t he say I look like a sea lion or a seal or something other then a freaking manatee.

I guess it’s how you know that you need to actually exercise. Maybe this time the message will sink through to you that you are just way too fat and need to actually do something about it.

I guess I have to start exercising more.

A manatee? I mean seriously, a freaking see cow??

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