Chasin' Mason

For ten minutes now a blank screen has stared me in the face, not a single single letter typed on a digital piece of paper.  My head is full of thoughts and my fingers swelled with the words aching to get out.  But all I can do is think of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Courtesy WDBJ-TV via AP Parker, a television news reporter, and Ward, a television photojournalist, were conducting a live morning interview on August 26 for their station, WDBJ , when a disgruntled former co-worker walked up to them and their guest and opened fire.  Parker ran for her life as did her guest, while Ward appeared to fall to the ground.  While the guest survived, both Parker and Ward were shot and died a short time later. Think about this for a moment.  It will be painful, but I need you to internalize this situation. A news crew was murdered live on the air. This blog has been dedicated to my weight loss journey, but for today, for this moment, I'm going to change it...

In my last post, I mentioned I had registered for my first real 10K.  Up until then, I participated exclusively in 5K races. NOTE:  As I am sure most of you are aware... a 5K is 3.1 miles.  A  10K is 6.2 miles.   A half-marathon is 13.1 miles and a full marathon is 26.2 miles. I was unaware the race was happening until a co-worker had mentioned it and suggested I sign up.  After some thought, I decided to go for it.  I can tell you, I almost immediately regretted it.  Not because I had spent the money, but because I was concerned I wouldn't be able to finish it the way I wanted to finish the race. When I take part in these events, my goal is to jog/run the whole race.  I consider it a personal failure if, at any time, I walk.  I know it's not a failure by any means, but honestly I can't think of doing it any other way. A few weeks ago, I thought it would be a good idea to put in a practice 10K.  I'd been training with t...

Well now... it's been a while. I won't go into too much detail about where I've been and what I've been up to since my last post.  If I had to sum it all up though, I would use the following terms:  family, friends, work and Disney. Notice there are a couple of words that are missing there.  Two very specific ones to be exact:  diet and exercise. So here's the reality.  I've had some failures in those departments.  I haven't been exercising as I should.  Well let's be honest here... none at all.  And let's not talk about the diet... or lack there of. As you might have figured out... I've regained some of the weight I've lost.  I am certainly not proud of it.  Quite ashamed actually.  That's why I've not been around here much.  I've not wanted to admit failure.  I worked so hard to drop the weight... only to regain some of it back. At my lowest weight, I came in at 269 pounds.  I've gained... (oh, how I dread...