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| I have to admit, you intrigue me :oops: . I'm very interested in your success story. I'm wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing your story since I'm a newbie here and don't know you. I've also done a search under your name (ok, now I sound like a stalker :lol: ) and there's just too many pages to go through. Your posts go all the way back to 2004, so you've been around here a long time. I'm very much into cycling as well, which of course is the reason you stand out to me. When did you start cycling and racing? Anyway, I'd love to hear your story if you don't mind sharing. If not, I won't take it too hard. :wink: |
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Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:24 pm |
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| oldpjams
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:shock:
I started SBD in the summer of 2003 or so? I couldn't keep up with my son on the beach that Summer, and then I had a horrible annual checkup -- my cholesterol was through the roof. I started lifting weights and using the cross-country ski machine that had been collecting dust in the basement and was able to lose 10-15lbs pretty quickly. My mother "discovered" SBD and passed the book along. I was one of those lucky people that lost a lot of weight in P1. I'm a guy, though, and I do think that matters.
By the following Spring I was tired of the ski machine and looking for something new. I went back for a follow-up on my cholesterol (it dropped 50% in 6 months) and my doctor suggested cycling. Hadn't been on a bike since high school. The first year I just tooled around mostly -- 15-20mi a day. Mostly on the bike path. I set a goal for the following year to do at least one century. The training for that turned out to be very appealing to me. I liked the structure and the challenge. I blew out 3 discs in my back that year, struggled with fitness and diet, and started working with a strength and conditioning coach. That led to an interest in that field and I took a bunch of certification courses through C.H.E.K. Institute. I thought I might like working with clients, but I really don't have the temperament for it.
The following year I made Pan-Mass my cycling goal (184mi) and that was a tremendous experience.
To stave off the inevitable post-event letdown that follows something like Pan-Mass I decided to try cyclocross racing that Fall. I thought I had the fitness and the willingness to suffer that would make racing possible. I was very wrong. It's an entirely different world. I started working with a cycling coach a couple of years ago and that's helped. I like the structure of the training and I learn a lot about myself in races. Usually bad things. I did ~40 races this year. I'll be racing road, criterium, and cyclocross in 2008.
Right now I'm around 50lbs lighter than when I started in 2003, and about 7lbs heavier than I would like to be for racing this summer.
That's pretty much my whole life right now -- family first, but beyond that almost all of my focus is on training hard, eating, and sleeping. I'm a very dull boy...
edit: I just figured out that this question was asked in Oct. I'm dense too... |
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Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:26 pm |
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| RedRox
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| I think 10/25 was about the day the board went down, so she may have been one of the last to post before the crash. Hey, maybe SHE caused it!! :lol: j/k |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:30 pm |
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| oldpjams
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RedRox wrote: I think 10/25 was about the day the board went down, so she may have been one of the last to post before the crash. Hey, maybe SHE caused it!! :lol: j/k
The mere mention of my name may cause crashes in some parts :( |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:50 pm |
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| pixel
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| Ok now who else is interested to hear age and see a picture of oldpjams! lol |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:00 pm |
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| oldpjams
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| I'm 38. |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:18 pm |
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| Well, I have a REALLY, REALLY GREAT picture of Oldpjams I could share... :wink: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:37 pm |
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| oldpjams
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Nice.
There are plenty pics of me here.
Here (but it's coming down tonight):
pfft |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:50 pm |
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| We need a "hot, sweaty, breathless, mouth watering, fanning yourself as you ease back onto the fainting couch" emoticon!!!! WHEW!!!!!! |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:52 pm |
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| LOL legal, I agree. Look at those muscles and you cant see really well from there but i bet the calf muscles are really hot too. |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:10 pm |
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| I've heard that he has a really nice posterior, as well. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:16 pm |
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lol its not fair he only left that pic up for like 10 seconds! thats such a tease! There was a guy I went to high school with his name was Colin. He played soccer. OMFG I have never seen calfs like he had on anyone. I drooled every time he wore shorts, I have no idea what the deal was. There was another guy that was a wrestler. He was really a sweet guy and one day I saw him with no shirt on. HOLY GOD HIS ABS. :) I never really had muscles that you could see like that, my pudge covered it (of course now what I have is beyond pudge). But my sister on the other hand she also has been pudgy but not as much as me. In high school she was in weight lifting with the "morning crew" she was the only female. You could see it both in her arms and legs both for volleyball and softball when we wore shorts for our uniforms. She might have been short but you really didnt want to screw with her.
She played catcher, was on varsity since her sophomore year and had multiple warnings for laying out players as they tried to come into home plate when she had the ball. It was great to watch! I think guys came just to watch her beat up on people haha |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:46 pm |
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Yeah, well, you saw the pic which makes you pretty quick! Nobody has bigger calves than me. I'm a freak of nature. It's rarely an advantage, tho!
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:51 pm |
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WooHoooo!!!! Such a LONG time I waited for that response. Good thing I didn't stalk you on TOB :twisted: Maybe it was the "stalker" comment that brought the board down!!! Anyway, thank you so much for sharing your story and.....ummmm....you leg? Can't quite make out that picture. lol! If it really is your calf.....OMFG!!! Freak of nature is right. j/k ;)
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:08 pm |
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| Jams is worth waiting for, ladies! :wink: The queue, of course, begins right behind me! :twisted: |
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Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:30 pm |
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