Me after Warrior Dash:
In between I found out that I’m pretty good at most of the obstacles. I also found out that I am not good at climbing walls.
Anyway, I came through nearly the first mile doing quite well. I was running most all of it, my breath was good, I wasn’t getting winded. I was feeling great. Then came the wall. It didn’t look so bad. It was about 12 feet tall, but there was a rope with several knots in it. How hard could it be? So I grabbed on, put my foot on the foothold, and pulled.
It’s true, I’ve lost 67.6 pounds. However, that means that I still weigh nearly 340. I can assure you, that’s a lot of weight to get up and over a wall, especially when I haven’t been strength training (more on that in a minute). I was surprised by the difficulty and had to go back to the ground. At this point, I was certain that I was not going to get over this wall.
However, I was helped out by my teammates. I was able to pull myself up to the first foothold on my own, then with a big assist from the Green Lantern and Captain America (my arms were literally unable to do any more work), I got up and over the wall.
So I was able to finish the Warrior Dash, but unfortunately, it was basically a total loss as far as time went. I had exerted so much effort with my muscles that all the oxygen I was taking in was going to them. Even walking, I was breathing heavily the rest of the race.
I’m glad I finished, but there’s no question that I have got to make strength training a part of my routine. Not that I wasn’t already aware of how important strength training is in my routine, but I needed a little bit of failure to kick me in the ass. So this week it’s off to the gym to sign up for a membership. I really should do it anyway, with the winter weather on its way.
Other than that, things are good. The bounces in my weight are starting to stabilize. Each week they’ve been getting better. I’ll lose a bunch of weight during the week and then gain a bunch back over the weekend. It all started with Mancave:
8/10-8/13: +8.4 pounds
8/14-8/18: -8.6
8/19-8/20: +5.8
8/21-8/24: -9.0
8/25-8/27: +4.8
8/28-9/1: -10.0
9/2-9/4: +3.8
9/5-9/8: -7.6
9/9-9/10: +2.6
9/11: -2.2
Each weekend has been getting a little better. And that’s important. I have a goal of getting under 300 by the end of the year (by my birthday on December 10th if I can make it happen) and that’s going to take getting my weight in some sort of order. I lost my first fifty losing 10 pounds about every 18 days. The last ten took almost a month.
So it’s time to shake it up, start upping the effort, start pushing my muscles, and next year, I’ll be the one helping other superheroes over the wall.
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