Still 185

It has been a while since I have taken the time to write anything, its not that I have not cared, but I have just been busy. Things are good though. I still can visualize my 185 self, with arms a shoulders like Vin Diesel and a chest like my fellow Austin-ite Mathew McConaughey...

I found a new work out to try, and there is a story behind it.
I come from a family where food is important, and was not thin nor very active, I was actually diagnosed with asthma when I was very young. As a child, every time I walked into my grandmothers house she tried to feed me cookies, donuts, salami sandwiches the works. I spend much of my younger life with her and my grandfather. When I was about 13 we moved further away from them and my contact was more limited. I also discovered sports. I played soccer, football, basketball, wrestled and also ran track. I was not particularly good at wrestling, I was OK at basketball and football, but I was pretty good at running. I tried a few things including shot put and discus, and the 100 meter, that was all a kid with asthma could do, right?

Move a head a year and its 8th grade, new school, new friends, good times. Football and basketball were fun, and track was better. We did not have cable, video games or any money to do anything. And my mom was working part time going to school full time and being single. So If i wanted to get somewhere I had to walk or run. I even would walk home after football practice. I think it was two or three miles, and no it was not up hill both ways and it did not snow. I started thinning down. (Besides all the activity, we ate rice and frozen veggies or popcorn for dinner, I did have free school lunch though.)

When track season came around they had me try the 400 meter as it turned out that was my race. In that district the track team was divided by a combination of age weight height size etc... needless to say I was on the A - Team. Which work well for me. I was up against a much higher level of competition which made me work harder.

Recently I found workouts for track folks to train for the 400. I think I am going to give them a try. In my mind it worked once...