It has been nine months since I posted anything here. I got busy with some things through work and through other professionally related stuff. In the meantime I have run three races, have continued to train and have missed writing. I keep meaning to come back but have yet to write a single word until today. What leads me back of a sudden?
I went to the doctor yesterday.
It seems the 8k, the half-marathon and 5k didn’t do me much good in the way of improving my health the way that I thought it would. You see, I have issues that come from my heritage. I am southern, and to be southern is to be an eater. Not unlike many other groups of people, we are indoctrinated with the concept of eating-meetings. If there is an event or meeting, we consume food.
Now I have not been sitting on the couch and gorging myself on bags of fries and bonbons, but being a type-2 diabetic I might as well have been. I am coming back to the blog because I need to write to keep myself honest and to stay reflective on what I am doing. So I hope to be making more updates, probably starting Monday of next week (9/15/2014). I am on my last couple of days of taking it easy for a couple of weeks to recover after my first-half marathon on August 31st.
Saturday I am running a 10k to celebrate my return to full training mode. This weekend I start programming my brain for my next nutritional switch. I am going to go full on paleo and see where that lands me in 30 days. If what I have been reading holds out, it may help me balance out some glucose issues.
In the meantime, here are my year-to-date stats, or rather my stats since I started using my Garmin Forerunner 220 in February. I will note, just to appease the macho side of my brain, that my average speed includes walks.
So I just spent my lunch break at work talking about fixing my food problems. Only in ‘Murica.
out and back fat boy 