My girlfriend and I were talking about this yesterday after our morning run. We were talking about the TV show “The Biggest Loser,” for those of you not familiar with the show, it’s an American TV show in which contestants try to lose as much weight as possible during the show’s run in order to win a $250,000 prize. While en route to the prize, the contestants live on a “fat ranch” where they exercise all day and have to compete in certain challenges in order to continue to the …

I really hate running in the mornings. I don’t know what it is about getting up in the morning and running that just wears me out for the rest of the day. I can get up at 5 and go read, or work on a client’s site and be fine for the rest of the day.
I can even get up and swim and I’ll be fine for the rest of the day, it’s just running that wears me out.  Just for the record, I had a great run this morning. …

I finally found something that was ultra running related, that was not a Nike commercial that was inspiring and well done.  It’s the story of an ultra trail runner named Marco Olmo.
You need to watch the clip, but the thing that I like about him, is that he says that there’s a loser inside all of us. I can relate to that, specially if being a loser means that I can run 100+km with the ease that he seems to be able to do it.

I can’t wait until the documentary …

My son competed in and completed his first triathlon this weekend. He done very, very well and done made me proud. I have a bunch of video that I need to edit and put together in a DVD movie for him.
I also saw a couple of other friends out there in the adult division of the race, most notably the notorious JUST HEAD was out there.  It actually made me feel better about my prospects to see JUST HEAD out there since he wasn’t on a super duper bike.
Actually, now …

Here’s a running motivation video. Yes, it’s a Nike commercial, but I figured I’d post something running related on this blog given its current tri bent.  Enjoy!

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