Today marks the official one year anniversary of me halting all running. To say I’ve started running again is kind of a joke; I’ve been doing about 25 miles per month for the past three. I feel I could probably pick that up a bit, but biking seems to be doing me pretty well for now.

Two months ago, I ran my first 5k since running at all… My time was 22:06. Today, I ran another, which turned out to be on the exact same course… My time was 20:46. Proof that biking can make you faster at running. I’m more than pleased; this combined with my mile time shows I’m ahead of where I was at this time in 2007, when I first started getting serious and ran a sub-20 5k in December… So I think that will be my goal… a sub-20 by the end of the year.

I still have the immediate goals of 175lbs and 20k calories burned by the end of the month. I did a lot of working out last month and didn’t drop any weight, but that likely means my body was transforming from soft to hard… Hopefully it’s nearly done and I’ll start to see some weight loss. If not, we might have to see some drastic measures toward the end of the month