Let’s see…I’ll take the Hypertension with a side of Scar Tissue, please…

If one more person pokes and prods me this week, I swear I’m going to haul off and start slapping the happy crap out of people.
The past seven days have all been about my health - I went to see my GP and got the news that, while my D levels are almost three times [...]

AHA!!!

Now I know why my wife constantly wakes up and complains that she always feels like she’s been run over by a Mack truck. Welcome to what I now call “sleeping with the furkids”.

Caveat emptor.

I’ve really been struggling with how to write this post for a while. The tri community in Vancouver is quite small, and people generally seem to know each other well, so when it comes down to holding someone to task for basically falling down on the job and not delivering what they promise, I’m [...]

Recumbent Doesn’t Mean “Take It Easy, Lard Ass”…

Our little gym in our condo is rather interesting. We have a nice variety of cardio machines - a couple of treadmills, two eliptical trainers…and a recumbent exercycle.
Yeah. I’m still not sure how I feel about this thing.
It’s an odd feeling to be sitting back at such a weird angle. First of all, I find [...]

Bring the Pain.

“Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.” — Napoleon Hill
Sometimes it’s so difficult to keep things in perspective.
As soon as I made my decision to race in the 2011 Ironman, my body decided to reward me by [...]