Jul 24 2008
Peace Out
It has been a few weeks since I have blogged. I have had a lot going on. Good and bad, such is the nature of life I guess. Point being I have not been in the greatest state of mind. Normally I don’t mind dumping all that on to this internet, but in this case I know it would get to places that it did not need to be. Rather than blog and having it bring up more crap I decided that this time I needed to keep everything internal. Not the best way to deal with something, but I can’t seem to express what I am feeling in words.
I have some good news! Yesterday I reached my goal weight of 170! It has taken a very long time, but I am very happy to have finally reach the goal I set for myself. Seems like that is two goals that I have reached this year, but I can’t seem to remember what the other one was. I have also started running again. I have been three times since Saturday and so far my knee seems to be doing alright. It still pops a lot, but I have not had anymore pain. I am hoping that I will be able to run a 5k before the year is out.
In a couple of hours I will be leaving for the UCC’s National Youth Event(NYE). We are taking six kids. NYE happens every four years on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. I have not been on that campus since I visited Sara there many years ago. Now I get to experience 4 nights in the dorms. There is no way in the world they can be any worse than my dorm at TTU, it is just not possible. All that to say I am going to be out of town until sometime on Monday.
Before I forget, new pictures on flickr! I walked around Vandy’s campus a bit yesterday morning while I was having some maintenance done on my car. Two hours of walking and only 30 pictures, and only 4 of those made it to flickr.
I know what you mean about wear and tear on the knee’s doing real physical activity.
I’ve started riding my mountain bike again, both road riding and trail riding.
It really helps since it’s low impact on the knees. What really sucks is, you’ll be working
out, running etc, then hurt your knee or elbow. Then you have to stop for 1-3 weeks
and get out of the routine. I know it’s happened to me many times before, so do whatever
you can to protect your joints like doing low impact stuff.
Injuries are your body’s way of telling you not to exercise. At least that’s the way I see it.
i need to get started. I have been putting it off like I did last year. ugh. maybe I will get motivated sooner rather than later.