Long day today!!! Had a great interview … See how it goes. Had lunch today with an old work mate … he looks good and talked about being 2 weeks into a lifestyle change – I hope he keeps it up. But aside from all that the most wonderful thing happened today … I had [...]
Archive for August, 2009
An inteview, lunch with a friend, 3 km of jogging, and officially broke the plateau . . . OHH MY!!!!
Posted in Fitness on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Back to the regimen
Posted in Fitness on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Well after a light day yesterday (2 km jog and 2 km of poling) I ratcheted up again today. In the morning I jogged 2 km followed by 2 km of poling. Then I went for a 7km bike ride around 5:30 this evening. Can’t say I am sore (although my left knee is sore [...]
Antonio Sturino – a very sad day
Posted in Personal on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a sad day . . . the youngest brother of the greatest man I know (more on that in another post) died on Tuesday night . . . he had colon cancer and was only 66 years old. Unfortunately, his cancer was not what got him but rather the so called ‘complications’ from [...]
Durham Regional Forest
Posted in Fitness on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a beautiful piece of single track in the middle of a red pine forest!!! A couple of spots with a ton of sand which made it a hard ride – the extra resistance was good for building endurance, stamina, muscle, and strength!!! Today’s ride was approx. 1.5 hours from when we left the cars [...]
Almost didn’t exercise today
Posted in Fitness on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a job interview today … Seems like he would be a good boss. Anyhow lots of running around today and didn’t get home until 5 pm … Was motivated by looking at the new Nike lunarglide running shoes I bought and went for a jog … 3KM later I let the dogs out and [...]
Breakfast Tues am
Posted in Food & Health on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a simple weight watchers bagel with light peanut butter … 310 calories … Will grab a banana and nectarine for the road. Really loving Spark People for tracking my food … Can’t wait for them to fix the iPhone app bug so i can enter custom foods on the go. But still an awesome [...]
Breakfast this morning
Posted in Food & Health on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is what breakfast looked like … Add some sliced tomatoes and perfect!!!! Only 368 calories: 2 poached eggs (omega) 2 pieces of Dempster’s Body Wise bread 1 piece of kraft fat free cheese single (split in two) 2 pieces of Lillydale Turkey Bacon Delicious! This creation is named after it’s author … My super [...]
East Cross Forest Hike
Posted in Fitness on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is my much better half (Krissy) with our 4 pups as we walk through a canopy of towering pines … The sound of the wind whipping through the trees was beautiful. What a great 45 minutes and 500 calories later.
Arrrrrggggg!!!!!
Posted in Job Hunt on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Woke up today to a weird computer virus … Computer won’t recognize file types and as such it won’t open anything or I should say it tries to use wordpad for everything … Taking it in first thing this am!!! Need to get this fixed so I stay connected in the job hunt. Fingers crossed [...]