Journal

Your daily thoughts and progress.

07/09/2025:So I have slipped up on some of my training and lost some time. But I am back stronger than ever. I have trained like a mad man for the next 5k the Dragon's 5k this weekend. My weight is up too high but we're going to be way down by the time of the USAF Marathon. I'm going to train for the half marathon as part of a larger goal. I am going to train for boxing. I will get my cardio and conditioning way up and work on all sorts of training modalities that I have never done before. I will do a lot of the calisthenics and core work stuff I have never done before. I am going to train until I am an absolute monster then challenge someone to a boxing match lmao. This is very important to me and it must happen. Last night on my fast mile run of the week I managed to drop my mile time by over a minute from the previous weeks fast mile.

I also checked up on a few legends from the old Gamefaqs martial arts board. PowPowPunishment has been running the same training log consistently since those days and is now an anime cosplayer. That's insane. I wish I never fell off and kept up my training. Oh well the only thing to do is to start from here and keep it up. I need to get the home gym back in operation. No excuses I am going to start training my strength and stamina like a machine. I am going to achieve my final form and be a competitor, a champion a warrior. I am going to also start getting my mind right. I am buying a copy of Jack Dempsey's book and going to start learning about the sport of boxing. I am going to start going 100% hard on conditioning and drills. Once I get into my next job and have some disposable income I am going to do some boxing. Once I've gotten in the ring and done some sparring I am going to throw the gauntlet down at the secret enemy.

It was crazy though last night when I was running I just kept thinking about training for battle and my little feets were flying. It was crazy and I liked it. I think I am going to keep training for this purpose and see how far it can take me. I'm going to crush all my goals this year and learn some new skills along the way. I need to figure out a method to keep this training log updated. I have all these sections and am not really sure what to do with them. I guessI can just keep an old school paper log and update info from my Strava and notebook and stuff. I don't know I just want to see my stats grow as I develop into a WARRIOR.

02/20/2025: I have signed up for a 5K in April. I am not in great shape at all and haven't been running outside of a few 1 to not quite 2 mile runs. Which is pretty good considering how long it's been since I've run consistently. I do think in the 44 days or so that I have to train I can get much better. But it keeps snowing and icing up and for some reason I do not enjoy running in the bitter cold as much as I did in my 20s. Also there is a ton of ice under the snow and I don't want to fall and bust my ass. So I had the bright idea of running at the Rec Center's indoor track. It's free for locals. I first thought about joining their gym which is honestly pretty nice so I could also use like an indoor bike or some other cardio nonsense to mix it up. I was thinking about doing that temporarily for a month or two anyway just until the weather gets warmer. But this is a pretty solid plan. I went and checked the track out and asked all the questions I needed to ask yesterday with my son who wanted to do a few laps. That little maniac ran a good 4 laps and walked a few. What an animal. I am hopng that tonight after work whenI go do my first run that there isn't really anyone there. I get bashful doing things around other people.

01/30/2025: I've been doing well since my birthday. I've cleaned up the diet and have been working out twice a day most days but doing a little something at least once a day. I'm going to keep this momentum up and add to the workouts. I've been eyeballing indoor bikes on Facebook market place. I've seen quite a few for like $25 to $30. I wonder if I can add a speed sensor to them then get on Rouvy or one of those other cycle apps. That would make that more fun. An indoor bike can also be tossed in the backyard or in the living room

01/18/2025:I have thought about this idea in the past but I want a digital publically accessible record of this to embarass me. I want to take the hi Score challenge off my main website and turn it into a Wii Fit competition for the ages. That's actually just something that popped into my head as I started typing. What I thought up previously and thought about in more detail today has to do with fitness streams in my garage. I used to keep my laptop set up in the garage before my PC died. I had a stream set up and actually used it once with my pal Kyle as we played and beat River City Ransom. It was dope as hell. So today I was thinking with my BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE attitude towards getting my 75 Hard challenge accomplished. I have the ability to set up two concurrently running instances of Wii Fit in the garage. One on the LCDHDTV and one on the CRT on the bottom of my work bench. This way I could play 45 minutes of Wii Fit while my son ALSO plays Wii Fit. He'll be entertained doing what I am doing and doing it at the same time. This is genius. Previously in life I had considered becoming the next weight loss super star streamer on Twitch by streaming Wii Fit, Power Pad games and shit like that. It would be fun. So why not do all of these things?

01/15/2025:LMAO I didn't start shit on the first. I am slowing down on my gnarly habits but I plan on enjoying my birthday on the 24th. I want to have pizza at my favorite place in Richmond and enjoy some birthday cake. Then will start proper 75 Hard on the 25th. I also had a trip to Disney World with the family last week so it really would have been lame and hard to eat clean that week. I know that's part of the challenge but after my birthday there's no real holidays or events that will hornswaggle my progress for the proceeding 75 days. So the end date of the 75 Hard process should be April 10th. I'd also like to rething my fitness website. Originally I was just going to have a journal page and then some dedicated log pages. I may need to add an EXTRA page then have some tidbits and resources in there. Maybe I can make some pages about Par Courses/Fitness Trails, my challenges and a guide I've been wanting to put together. I actually made that last page. I think it's going to be the biggest part of the site next to the journal page lmao. I probably won't ever make this site publivly available, I think it's searchable on neocities when I updated it or whatever but I won't be telling anyone I know don't know. I need to make this site something at least useful to me.

12/31/2024:Tomorrow I'm starting 75 Hard for reals.

12/29/2024:This year I'm going to work my way down to a target weight and start running again. Next years Caresource 5k and Dayton Dragon's 5k should hopefully be on the menu. I'm going to have to use some guile, cunning and ninja like tactics to sneak in workouts. I will have to exercise some iron will to make it happen. The biggest hurdle is getting workouts in when I'm with my 5 year old. Some times he will hope in and do stuff with me and sometimes he's not feeling it. So that makes it hard to fit in a regimented activity. I think I will try to stealth in some Yoga style stretching and flexibility work. One of my goals this go round is to get my super tight hamstrings to stop being so super tight.

11/30/2024:I lifted a few times but don't have access to my paper log to update it. But I tell you what after moving these heavy ass totes from my Mom's house to my basement I need to buckle down on lifting and get strong as fuck. I have several decades left of needing to not be enfeabled. I need to get back on my grind. As soon as this house project is over I am going to go hard on losing this 90lbs. I will start doing 75 hard again. Fuck it I will start 75 had tomorrow I don't give a fuck. I am going to keep my strava subscription and will start getting fit as fuck. That will be my super priority after this house nightmare is over. I also want to ride my bike from my house to visit granny at night at least one time.

I think there is something to drinking a gallon of water a day. I felt really good during that 75 hard trial after I got used to running through that much water. There were a rough few days where I was wizzing a lot but after that I felt pretty good. I can't believe I have squandered this entire month like a moron lmao. I need to buckle down and get back to it. I know what I need to be doing and am just not doing it. That is retarded. I have been so stressed and using it as an excuse to be lazy and not eat right. And the worst part is the eating like shit doesn't even temporarily relieve the stress. I am going to learn a few new meal preps and get right back at it. I am going to get my lift on. I am going to do some walking or cycling or something. IDK. Just stop being a bitch.

11/12/2024: Starting a new section of the site that could be its own site lmao. I need to be consistent with my training but I enjoy my new hobby site so this is what happens when hobbies collide. I was rucking my son around the neighborhood I grew up in when I had the idea to make a training log page for my webzone then I had the idea to just make it a fully fleshed out sight. Hopefully me wanting to add content to the website(my current autistic target of hyper focus) will trick me into consistently training. Yes I am attempting to use my weaknesses against myself with the end goal of self improvement. It's a dangerous game that I play.

So I will have different pages for the different activities and I will log each in those zones. This is going to be dedicated to my long winded writing about how my training and activity is going. I think I will try to use tables to keep the training logs organized to some degree. IDK I will ask chatgpt to help me out with that too. ChatGPT actually made this whole page lol. ChatGPT is a pretty useful robot friend. I was going to put this on my main page and may. This might just be something that I update for myself. IDK what the fuck I am doing lol.