Time continues to creep by. I am looking forward to 23 days from now when I’ll board a plane for the first time in almost 13 years and travel to Burlington. It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 6 weeks since she and I parted at the train station in Baltimore. Time has [...]
One of my goals this year was to reach being able to do a single deadlift rep of twice my bodyweight. Yesterday when I woke up I was 156 lbs on the scale and I weighed in this morning again at 156 lbs.
Last night I did the 2×5×275 lbs of deadlifts and then [...]
Got blood taken last week to check my A1c and lipid profile.
I’m quite happy with the results –
HbA1c — 5.7%
Cholesterol — 150
HDL — 75
LDL — 63
Triglycerides — 62
LDL is down from last year, when it was 96. HDL stayed right about the same. What’s interesting is the fact that over the last year, I have [...]
This last Sunday, I woke up and my throat hurt. After being up a while, it obviously wasn’t going away and I figured it was the start of a cold. Crazy enough, since I still wasn’t feeling all that bad and I didn’t have any congestion down in my chest, I headed off to the [...]
Last night, 2×5×275 lbs for my working sets.
The warmup sets hadn’t felt promising. I haven’t lifted heavy for about a month, I think I had lost some of my acclimation to the stress of heavy deadlifting. But I was able to do the working sets, my grip felt very solid and my form was [...]
It was cold for April yesterday. There was wind too.
I also knew that today I would want to deadlift and that after that once again I would be running with legs that would feel like they get tired quickly.
So I kept running for a while last night. Ended up going 6 miles, the [...]
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