The hippo returns....

Last night I step in to a world that I haven't entered in 17 years. Last night was the Naugatuck high school alumni swim meet. As I walked in to the pool I hit with flashes of high school and of long swim pratices although I was firmly grounded by the fact my daugter was right there at my side. I walked up to the coach(who is in his 31st year of coaching the team) and he knew right away who I was and pretty much which class I was in. He told me he was glad to see me and that I should go get changed and get in the pool. Once in the pool I was surrounded by high school age kids all swiiming faster then me. Anyways my first event was the 200 yard IM. While other Alumni did relays for this event I talked it myself. My time was 2:58.something something. I was realy tired and spent after wards and i'm not really sure how i got out of the pool never ming how i didn't vomit. I didn't get to swim again till after the diving but when i did i hit it hard. I did back to back to back event's 200 free relay (28.66 lead off leg) 100 back stroke (1:16) a small brake for the 100 breaststroke and the the 400 free relay (1:09). so today i'm recovering and seem to be doing well.



Hippo....

WOW time FLIES

It's been quite some time and I've had a lot of ups and downs.. pretty much mostly downs. But this hippo can't be down for long. I've gottem my self into a swimming challenge and now i ahev to swim 40 in the month of dec. good thing it has 31 days isn't it.


anyways I'll be all wet this month and I'll give you more details later

One bad weekend...

As well all do we tend to slip back in to comfort zones. Well this weekend was full of eating bad and some minor drinking(at ski partol events there is MAJOR drinking going on so I was a very good boy with 2 water to every one beer..). Speaking of beer I forgot how good a blue moon wheat beer tastes... but i digress. Anyways time to push off the sluggishness of eating foul(my body is hating me right now)and move ahead with a resonable train plan of running running running...

One week down...

Well it's one week down and I feel like hummm not sure.. I'm glad i'm in this challenge and All I know is I want to swim more.. I've had a few bad diet days but i've been good with working out even though my HO-HUM times. I hear you can get depressed when you cleansing so it mioght be that or an over brearing EX or who knows.. All i do know is i've been with out coffee for 4+ weeks with out sugar for 3+ weeks and that does feel good.. (I had some sport beans and got a total sugar rush on saterday I will not do that again)


So to everyone have a good week and I'll be posting in more often I hope

From todays work out...

75LBS of heat retaining gear will lead to a very sweaty hippo

WInter challenge

Well my laptop cord has carped out on me so I'm doing this quick.

Weight 246.8
Fat % 27.8
BMR 2438

and now the photo's





Oh ya I'm trying to add these to the new site.. but No luck..

I hope to have my laptop fixed tomorrow..

Baby steps...

The journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. How true it is. This week I took a few step in the right direction.

1. Whole Body cleanse- Man i have miss treated my body with junk food,beer, no exersize,more beer,and being lazy now to correct that.
2. Start working out again- this summer I did two sprint tri's and after that spent a LOT of time with my 5 y/o daughter with out regard to fitness(yes i was doing somestuff but nothing that i could log as working out) because i was gulity about spending 3 week in Africa
3. CLEAN DIET- lifestyle change.. 0% sugar or refined products that inculeds gel,sportdrinks and engery bars
4. Live the life of Slow Burn-I'll never be a top finisher But i'll be a great middle of the packer. In the book slow burn it teaches you to burn fat for energy which I know I have a lot of.

So as you can see it will be a tough fight to brake free of my sugar addicttion...but I'll get there

New to the Blogishsphere

Well this is my fisrt blog... and I'm doing this to get going with training and losing weight...


a few people i want to thank for my sprint year..

Iron will
The Kahuna
STU...

Now to start on the right foot..