Archives for "May, 2010"

Posted by Jim on 31st May 2010

The Eating Buddy – You versus The Grocery Store

Walk into a grocery store and just stand there for a moment. In your minds eye walk through the store. How do you shop? What do you buy? You know most of us will spend more time at a mall or a home improvement store compared to the grocery store. Face it most of us [...]

Posted by Jim on 31st May 2010

The Road to the Ironman – My first brickish workout

Saturday – What is a brick workout? Well it is a triathlon term that mean you do one sport right after the other. Over all it was a big day and at the end of the day my confidence grew a little bit. It started early doing 50 miles on the bike, followed by a [...]

Posted by Jim on 26th May 2010

The Eating Buddy – The last post on Fruits and Vegetables

This post is part 3 of the Fruits and Vegetables portion of The Eating Buddy. I will be moving onto one of my weaknesses Snacks and Desserts in the coming days.
To recap part 1 and part 2 probably didn’t tell you anything you did not know about fruits and vegetables. What did though is to [...]

Posted by Jim on 26th May 2010

The Road to the Ironman – Something new happened

Has anyone ever had an exercised induced migraine? I had my first experience with one on Sunday night. I never had a migraine before, so I am assuming this was one and let me tell you I will try my best not to go there again.
First how it happened. Now that I am at ground [...]

Posted by Jim on 22nd May 2010

The Road to the Ironman – 50 miles is a long way

Today is May 22, 2010. Today is a day that when I look back at this Ironman journey and smile, no in fact I might just chuckle. But today 50 miles seemed like 112 miles, in fact it seemed like 1,000 miles. So on September 13, 2010 the day after the Ironman, when I start [...]

Posted by Jim on 21st May 2010

The Eating Buddy – Fruits and Vegetables Part II

The first Eating Buddy post was a hit, thanks to all that responded.
Moving on I will be writing about a few new topics when it comes to fruits and vegetables.
Topic #1 – Which fruits and vegetables are the healthiest?
Answer – You can’t go wrong with any fruit or vegetable, but there are some guidelines when it [...]

Posted by Jim on 20th May 2010

The Road to the Ironman – Rested, focused, so let the fun begin!

A story came out of my trip to Cancun, that continues to reminds me how unique my journey is and how puzzling people sometimes find it.
My vacation wasn’t all about napping and eating, believe it or not I did exercise finding the pool a wonderful morning workout. No lane lines, unsure of the distance of [...]

Posted by Jim on 20th May 2010

The Eating Buddy – Fruits and Vegetables

This is a start of a new series called “The Eating Buddy.” In this fitness journey I have had a lot of questions about nutrition or what can/cannot eat and so on. Truthfully I did much more research on the fitness side during this journey, but now I am starting to get caught up on [...]