Havn't been really doin much except focusing on work. I have tomorrow off and plan to ride for awhile, we'll see how lazy i am though.

I won't be playing soccer again anytime soon. My knee is filled with fluid which hasn't happened since highschool, probably from the horizontal pounding it took when i was diving around on the ground. My hip flexor is messed up too from booting the ball so much. Just going to take it easy for a few days and hope the pressure is relieved from my knee, then begin biking and running again to see if my other knee will hurt. I wish i had insurance so i could go see an ortho.

Anyway as for the food front, i've kept up the decent eating habbits. Yesterday i declared it a day to have an icecream, and boy did it mess up my system! Talk about having the craps - don't eat dairy for a couple weeks, then have icecream. Ugh. it was good, but not THAT good. no more icecream.

Well it sure is good to be sore again. Tuesday i went for a 10 mile ride with my girlfriend which was nice, then yesterday i played soccer...FOR THREE HOURS. Oh....My...God... i can barely walk up stairs today. My quads and glutes are totally shot from kicking and running. Great thing is i wasn't even tired at the end of the game...i did however get blisters in my new cleats which bled into my sock. Yuck. My quads are destroyed from booting the ball. Being sore keeps me feeling alive though, so it's good. i did however twist my ankle twice which sucked, but i'll live..just a bit of swelling. I think i'm going to play soccer every wednesday, and i just found out we have a raquet ball court in our complex, if i could find a partner i'd definitely play that a few times a week like i used to back in the day.

All is good on the workfront. I got a few hours knocked off my work week recently, and i have a couple big meetings where people will not be happy, but i have to prepare my staff for summer or we'll sink. It's going to take some extra work and planning, but we'll get it.

Other then that, Operation Buddha Be Gone is underway, i have eaten very well this past week, with no cravings or even the want at all to have anything bad.

A good start.

I don't know if you all remember but when i tried to run awhile ago with my girlfriend after the Ironman, my right knee was tweaking bad. It took a couple days to get over and then i forgot about it. Well on my first run home from work yesterday it started up again, only this time i couldn't stop or turn around because it was very cold outside and if i stopped i would start to shiver. So i ran through the pain for about 20 minutes until i got home. Not good. This morning i woke up all ready to run and when i got out of the parking lot my knee was hurting so bad that i had to stop. It's not all that cold out today so i thought i'd just walk the rest of the way...but even walking hurts now.

I'm NOT GOING TO LET THIS GET ME DOWN. i just keep telling myself that. i will find an out of the way bike route somewhere and ride it to work.

I'm pretty pissed off thta my body won't cooperate, and the fact that i'll have to go see a doc to figure out what the problem is with my knee in the future.

But i've officially started "Buddha Be Gone!" since running home from work last night in 30 degree weather. Time to get back into shape.

I've decided i'm going to run to and from work. It's about 4 miles (i think) and it'll be great aerobic work to slim down again for the season ahead. It will also motivate me to stop eating crappy.

ANd i'll HAVE to run to work because i'm going to leave my car there so i can do my bank deposits and stuff. Hope it gets me rollin for this summer...

I certainly have been away for awhile. When you work 8-8 five or six days a week, all you can really do is work and sleep. I'm gaining weight because i just can't motivate myself to train with these hours, and i only see my girlfriend once a week...and i live with her.

But things are starting to really turn around and i feel like i'll be able to pull back from this store in the near future. Summer is coming and i'll be able to get flexability with my hours. I also got a guy at my store to think about training with me so that'd be cool.

Other then that, relationship is going great, work is long but still good. Not much else going on.