Health Update

Last October I started running with these guys from work. Darren and Brian. They're Englishman and they have awesome accents and vocabularies. Listening to them talk is so fun. I don't say much but I love to hang with them. Anyways, they said, "Eric, you should run with us. We lost a guy and we think you'd be perfect."

So I ran with Darren and Brian from October to January of this year. We would run about 3 miles, MWF, at lunch time. It took a while to catch up to their pace. We run at a tiny indoor track set in a basement that's a little less than a tenth of a mile long. It's monotonous because it's so small, but running with the guys it's not as bad. I don't know why, but it just isn't. Anyways, I never ran less than 10 minute miles and these guys are striving to break 7 minute miles. So the first time out I think I hung with them for about 6 laps. It was terrible and painful and just sucked. But I slowly over many many painful weeks and months caught up to about to what they do for 3 miles. I think my fastest 3 mile has been around the 22:30 time frame. Fastest 4 mile was around 32:17.

Oh yeah, so I ran from October to January with these guys and I was like, "Darren, how come I'm running all these miles and I'm not losing any weight?"
"Oh Eric, you won't lose weight. When you get to our age, it doesn't matter what you do."
Really?
So I tried the one thing that I absolutely hate.
Eating right.
blech.

So on January 17th, I started eating better.
If all goes well my eating looks like this.

6am: 1 packet of Quaker Oatmeal with a scoop of Mega Whey protein.
10am: banana
Run
Noon: Yogurt and granola bar.
4pm: Apple or pretzels.
7pm: Decently healthy dinner.

That was during weekdays. On the weekends I eat whatever I want whenever I want literally.
It's close to binging but not quite.

So that along with running is how I got from 177 pounds on Jan. 17 to around 162 pounds today.

More to come.