It is hard to believe that it has been a year already since I have started my transformation and decided to change my life forever. It has been an exciting and successful journey full of new challenges and new experiences. I’m not at a destination, today is just another day of the journey. I have [...]
I’m not sure if any of you noticed but today I have changed my blog title. What used to read “Greg’s Weight Loss Blog – My Transformation From Fat To Fit In 9 Months” now reads “Greg’s Running Blog – My Transformation from fat to fit and running”. Yup, it’s official; my blog is no [...]
I know it’s the middle of September and I’ve been totally slacking on blog updates but August was such a great month that I thought I still have to mention it by name and write some of the specifics that have happened during the month of August in terms of running. August had a lot [...]
I’ve been writing about my goals and how I’m still not quite there yet but I haven’t really written much about my long term goals or where I’m going with this running thing. Sure, I have logged some decent mileage since I have started running in January and sure, I have improved my running greatly [...]
It’s been over seven months since I have started this journey and I have been tweaking my transformation and modifying my plan along the way to get to where I am today. This week’s update also brings some changes. 1) I am no longer going to track waist size. My waist hasn’t changed a bit [...]
I ran a 10K race last Saturday. Well I actually ran an almost 10K. The course was supposed to be 6.214 miles but it ended up being only 6.05 miles. That is what the measurement was on my Polar RS800cx with the calibrated footpod and it is the same measurement that I got once I [...]
As I get leaner and more and more fit I get a lot of comments from people. People who know me, people who haven’t seen me in a long time and from folks that see me every day. These comments are mostly positive but as Carla showed today on her blog they can be rather [...]
After four days without running, I am back and running again! I ran an easy 3 mile run on Wednesday in 24 minutes and I ran a pretty good 45 minute fartlek run on Thursday night averaging 7:19 minutes/mile pace. Today I ran another easy run; 4 miles in 31:34 (7:53 minutes/mile pace). Apparently I’m [...]
I’m sidelined. I can’t run. And it’s driving me insane! Last Friday I had a small medical procedure done that involved me deciding not wanting more children. I have two beautiful kids, a lovely wife and I’m very happy with my life as it is. So the bottom line is that because of my decision [...]
Last weekend I ran another race. It was another 10K and I did alright. at my last 5K race I ran a 19:29 which means that in theory I should be able to run a 40:32 10K. How do I figure this? There are calculators on-line that do just that. They predict race pace from [...]