Week 2 - Sunday Long Ride, Church and Football

Woke up nice and early this morning so I could get my bike ride in before church so I could spend the afternoon watching football and playing Lego's with my boys. Casey got the Ninjago Epic Dragon battle set from Santa and we have yet to attempt to put it together yet so that is on the agenda for today!



Casey showing off his present from Santa

 

My ride went okay, watched part of the Strikeforce fights from last night and an episode of The Wire while I rode. Goal today was to get 2 hours in and let me tell you it was a struggle, one of the fighters was wearing a T-Shirt that read Embrace the Grind and that is exactly what I had to do this morning. Legs were tired from yesterday and just didn't have much oomph in them, but I embraced the grind and kept pushing through. To keep my self motivated I would do 4 minutes at medium gear and then 1 minute easy and just focused on getting through 5 minutes at a time. It worked and I ended up with 41.5 miles for the day.

Church was awesome today, Coach D was preaching and it was a great message on "I'm a Christian, So Now What?" He had 5 points but the 2 that really hit home with me were about Prayer and have Godly Relationships, 2 things as a Christian I struggle with. I usually don't take notes but today I did, Coach D really has a way of getting the people engaged, heck the man could read the phone book and make it sound interesting. He is so passionate and energetic it's inspiring and something I admire about him.

After church I whipped together a new recipe for slow cooker stuffed peppers that I'm looking forwarded to for dinner tonight. I had some of the leftover mixture for lunch in tortillas and it was good so pretty excited for the peppers. Need some variety in my diet so if I can add another recipe to my arsenal that will be great.

Now it's time for some Playoff Football and Lego's so

Until next time...Do today what other's wont, so tomorrow you can do what other's can't...like grow a sweet mustache!

Did someone lose a squirrel?

Tuesday June 5th

Been a couple days since my last blog post so here's a quick update of what's been going on in my world.

Had an awesome weekend, got in a pretty decent run on Saturday morning with the LU Crew, ran mostly with John O. and we (ok mostly John) shared some interesting stories from past training days. It was a smaller group with lots of people busy with races, life and various other things. Afterwards I headed home picked up Lucky and headed back out for a quick jog around the neighborhood, I've been neglecting my buddy with running lately and I wanted to get a couple more miles in to hit my goal for the day so it was a good chance. Later on played some catch with the football out in the yard with the boys, before jumping on the trainer while they ate lunch. Caden had a t-ball game @ 1:00 and Deanna was shooting pictures at a wedding so it was a busy afternoon, we had dinner with Grandma Marilyn, it would have been her and Grandpa's 61st anniversary on Saturday and I think she really enjoyed the company (and the distraction) that 2 of her favorite great grandson's can provide. I ended up missing out on the LU Torchlight Parade but spending time with Grandma seemed like the right choice and I'm glad we go over there.

Sunday I got out early for a bike ride before Church, service this week was outstanding. The message was about living a life of Integrity and one of the biggest take aways for me was the comment/definition that Integrity is when your actions match your beliefs. This is something I have really been struggling with over the last year or so, I have felt a change in my life in the last few years, more so than just the physical transformation that I've gone through but also a mental and spiritual one as well. One of the reasons I am so passionate about my involvement with Live Uncommon is the "Give Back" and how our Race Team is helping some truly worthy causes. This has been one step of a journey for me to live a life of integrity and so far it has been an awesome one. The message from Church really identified and put a label to what I feel like I have been missing in my life, and then more I learn and understand hopefully the better person I can become, and the best example to my sons of what they should aspire to be as well.

Had a great swim Monday morning, one of those where I just didn't want to get out of the water and could have just kept going, but I needed to lift weights and I had already completed my workout. I have a big swim on Wednesday and I hope I have that same feeling then too. After work it was so nice out (it had stormed earlier in the day) when I got home a wrangled up the boys and Lucky and headed out for a jog around the neighborhood. The boys rode their bikes for the first 2 miles with me and then they wanted to run a bit so we ran up and down the block for awhile before heading back inside for dinner. After dinner we played Xbox Connect, Deanna got a fitness game through work that is a blast to play. Speaking of my lovely wife she and some co-workers have just started a fitness challenge at work and she got up early Monday and did a work out plus walked nearly 2 miles at lunch, I am proud of her and I hope she sticks with it, so far she is doing great she also joined me early this morning to walk on the treadmill while I rode the bike trainer, 2 days in a row plus I think she is planning on walking again at work today, AWESOME!

That is pretty much all for now, Caden has T-ball tonight then I'm heading out of town tomorrow for 2 days for work...

Until next time...Do today what others won't, so tomorrow you can do what others can't.