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Having run a few of these types of races, I would highly recommend doing some cross-country running as part of your training. Maybe you're already doing that. I've found that too many people do all their training at the gym on treadmills and then fall apart on open terrain, especially on hilly terrain.

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the 17th Century by Geoffrey Parker. and before that, The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Apocalypse Z by Manel Loureiro (translated from the original Spanish) Mission to Mars by Buzz Aldrin Map of Bones by James Rollins Cyber…

A little boy was wandering around his house one day, bored and looking for something to do. His wanderings took him past his mother's bedroom door which was slightly ajar. He happened to glance in and saw his mother, naked, on her bed, and rubbing her body, saying "I need a man! I need a man!" This surprised and confused…

Two friends were out hunting one day when one of them suddenly groans loudly, clutches his chest and collapses to the ground. His friend immediately pulls out his cell phone and dials 911. When the 911 operator answers, he says excitedly, "My friend just died of a heart attack! What do I do?" "Well, sir," the operator…

Favorite book: The Stand Least Favorite Book: Pet Semetary

I know the feeling! Losing at the rate of 1-2 pounds/week is a safe, healthy rate outside of surgical intervention. My wife always felt I should have been losing weight at the rate of 10 pounds a week or more. And then she'd sabotage my diet whenever I did lose weight. So, yeah losing weight is one of the most challenging…

The exercise groupie at my gym who never seems to work out herself but sits on the cardio machine next to someone who is trying to work out and wants to talk constantly.

Secretly? No. I've made it abundantly clear. Has that gotten me anywhere? No!

Congratulations on being a parent! I assume you checked the baby for an owner's manual? None came with mine, either. Our kids were born 19 years ago but sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday. Being a parent has been the most challenging, amazing, difficult, strenuous, heart-warming, tedious, incredible, at times…

That's a great list! Well, except for item 20. Now I'm not going to be able to think of anything else all day...

I hit many plateaus on my way down from my peak weight of nearly 400 lbs to my now steady-state weight of 185 lbs. Plateaus can be very frustrating. Some of mine dragged on for weeks, especially as I got lower and lower in weight. Plateaus seem to be periods where the body is trying to adjust the available mass. I found it…

Several years ago, I had to go see a cardiologist for a stress test (that's where they put you on a treadmill and gradually increase the speed and inclination until you're about ready to die while they measure your heart rate). Afterwards he told me not to take a hot shower for at least 3-45 minutes. When I asked why, he…

Okay, if you feel that strongly about these burgers, do as I always tell people to do. Turn it from an emotional issue into a math issue. So let's do the math. Assume a loaded Five Guys (Brothers, whatever its, I'm not familiar with it) loaded burger is around 1500 calories. Let's say you can beat a person to death with…

I never answer the cell phone when I'm using the rest room, except for one day when I was anxiously waiting for a call back. wouldn't you know they called back while I was in the rest room in a stall. So my side of the conversation consisted of: "Yes.....yes...ohhh......yes....that's good.......that's…

...your wife/husband/significant other asks you to run to the store to get something and you actually run to the store to get it!

What? You mean that hook.., i mean lady, I was with (one time! just one time!!!!), might not have been telling me the truth when she said I was the best?

...you deliberately park you car at the farthest possible point in the parking lot from the entrance to the store, mall, etc, and when your passenger makes an annoyed sound, you go "What?"

The bathroom scale. Having lost almost 200 lbs, I never get tired of seeing that needle pointing at about 180. Any time it pops up, I work out even harder to get it back down where it belongs.

Personally, I don't think you can lose them if you've been severely overweight. And that goes for both men and women. That extra fat that was stored there may be gone but the extra skin the body had to grow to make room for it never goes away. Seems unfair that a body will grow extra skin when needed but doesn't recycle it…

I am very possessive about my food these days because I can eat so little, having had gastric bypass surgery. I don't appreciate it when a family member decides to help herself/himself to what little food I have on my plate simply because it might be more interesting than the mountain of food they've piled on their plate.

Oh, I know what it's like having someone close to you who isn't as supportive as they could/should be. My wife has sabotaged or at least tried to, every diet I've been on. Apparently, she feels being supportive is remembering to say "chew your food" once in a while when we're dining out.

Spock - from the original Star Trek series. Always perfectly logical.

I don't like people talking to me when I'm at the gym so I don't talk to other people. The only time I talked to a woman there was because I happened to overhear her talking to someone while we were waiting for the doors to be opened. She mentioned she was a principal at an elementary school and I approached her to offer…

I have no imagination when it comes to screen names so I just use my own name. Easier to remember when I log back in. The one time I came up with what I thought was a clever screen name, I couldn't remember it several days later when I went to log in. Never got back into that website ever again!

I started running one day when I realized that walking on the treadmill at the gym, even at 4 mph with an incline of 15% just no longer felt like it was burning enough calories in the time I had to spend there. So I started running and now run 5-6 miles a day, sometimes more.

Just about finished with "1781: The Decisive Year of the Revolutionary War" by Robert L. Tonsetic. Next on my Kindle Fire is "First Life" by David Deamer. After that, it's back to "The Game of Thrones, Book 5" by George R. R. Martin.

When I started seriously losing weight I was kind of disappointed that no one at my office seemed to notice. There I was, losing weight as fast as I could, clothes getting looser and looser, having to buy new wardrobes every 2 or 3 months and no one seemed notice or even care. Many months into my journey, I finally found…

I hit many plateaus during my weight loss journey. Early on, they would last just 3 or 4 days, As I got closer and closer to what became my final goal weight of 185 lbs, the plateaus lasted longer and longer. Usually during plateaus was when I noticed my clothese would fit get looser. it seemed my body was readjusting the…

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