Monthly Archives: February 2009

birthday

I turned 39 yesterday. In about a month, I’ll begin my 25th year of having type 1 diabetes.
Last week, I did 2×5×270 lb deadlifts on Wednesday. I ran Saturday and Sunday both, Saturday’s run was okay but Sunday’s my legs felt wicked tired.
This morning, I did weighted chin ups. 2×5×67.5 [...]

let’s try this again

Sometimes I really wonder what goes on in the heads of non-diabetics and what they think that diabetics must want.
Exubera was an example of immense corporate pharmaceutical stupidity.
It’s like they think we diabetics think the worst thing of our chronic medical condition is having to take injections. Pffft. The injections are almost always painless, every [...]

Getting real close

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfDo30oVZjg
That’s a link to show how much range of motion I have pulling myself up with only my right arm. I can’t quite get my chin over the bar and I’m missing the bottom range of the movement. I’m not sure though how long it’s going to take me to get a full [...]

golfing

I hadn’t golfed since some time in December. Since then, the weather has been quite cold most weekends. But a thaw finally came in that lasted more than a day and so yesterday I made the trip down to Delcastle.
There’s new management at Delcastle. I don’t know what that will mean to [...]

january review

Saw some good things in January 2009 — deadlift PR of 285 lbs. Weighted chin up with 92.5 lbs.
I only ran 33.9 miles. That’s fine, January was more about gaining strength.
I’m in a deloading phase right now. I think I’m beginning to feel a bit more recovered, but [...]