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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fighting Against Lazy: The New Year
2010 has been fairly smooth thus far. Completing the no sugar challenge has proven to be difficult, but I’m still going after 3 weeks. The daily mileage has increased to 5-10 miles per day now. The best part of the diet has been the consistent weight loss. When I started the marathon training, I scaled in at a healthy 235, now the most recent weigh in has reflected a trim 215. With the race day goal of 210 easily within reach, I may try to get between 200 and 210 before March 7th. One of the more interesting effects of losing weight has been the fact that my wedding ring no longer fits. I put it on a few days back and it slid immediately off and fell on the ground. As much as I’m sure my wife would love me losing it, I will have to go “bachelor style” until I can get it refitted.
The lack of sugar has added an interesting aspect to my diet. Now that I have removed all processed sugar, I have found that regular fruit tastes like Pixie Sticks. A grape is pretty much a sugar cube and apples taste like hard cotton candy. It is amazing how much excessive sugar can masked the actual sweet properties of fruit.
My latest enemy in the completion of this goal is the weather. I’ve now had to run in the rain the last three days in a row. It is cold and a lot easier to get injured, so I have had to take it slow. Less than two months now. I honestly thought I would have quit this trip long before, but now I can actually see the finish line.
Don’t Buy a Chevy Cobalt
I just wanted to throw some quick information up on my site regarding the purchase of Cobalts. Sadly, I made the mistake of buying a Chevy Cobalt about a year ago. It has been nothing but problems since and Chevy has refused to provide any assistance for their piece of junk car. The power steering went out at 41,000 miles, the fuel pump went bad at 50,000, and the key usually jams when I try to start it. I sent all of this information to Chevy with the hopes that they would realize how jacked up it was to force me to pay (roughly 2,000 dollars) to fix all of these problems. Their not so prompt response was this direct quote: “While it may seem like the good faith thing to do, we will not be providing you with assistance.” So, while Chevy is inherently evil and probably has no concern whatsoever about this site, I figured if I can at least save one person the trouble of owning a Chevy, then I have at least done something positive.
