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Here I go again. It seems that I go for months without writing. Why? Writing is great therapy for me. I can get my inner feelings out when there is no one close by to listen to them. I don’t even need for anyone to actually read what I write to feel like I have shared my feelings. So why do I wait? I've been stuck on Someday Isle. It’s time to sail off to St. Somewhere, a beautiful place that feels like paradise. I've made that trip many times. I've got off of the couch and ran a marathon. I went from doing a mindless job to travelling the country as a consultant. I built my own log home with no home-building experience. I've even started several businesses. One failed, the other two are going strong. I strayed off of St. Somewhere and let the current drift me back to Someday Isle several times. Each time it took effort to remove the anchor and set sail toward my dream. Other than the one storm that drowned my one business, I made it back to where I ...

In my last blog entry I mentioned a coaching training tool that I started using in February. A running coach/physiologist named Jack Daniels, PHD developed the tool which contains sections from other running and physiology experts as well. I told you how this tool gave me the motivation to work harder on running and to continue my weight loss mission because it theorized that my finishing times in various races could drop significantly by losing weight and following suggested paces for training runs. I entered the Atlantic City Half Marathon yesterday. According to the Jack Daniels spreadsheet that I used to do my training, my goal time for the race should have been 1:42:29 which was 8 minutes faster than a half marathon I did in November 2011. That was based on me running a 22:26 5K at 195 pounds on March 11th. If I got down to 190 pounds for the half marathon yesterday I could do a 1:41:35 with a heart rate averaging 170, so says Dr. Daniels. I did drop to 189 a couple of day...

I’ve always been excited about running. Ever since I started at 14 years old, I’ve been passionate about heading out of the door for a run. An off day is tough on me, but I know they are necessary. When I was in high school I did pretty well running longer distances. I qualified for the state championships in the 2 mile run, ran in the 4:20’s for a mile in my senior year, and then dropped the ball after I left high school. I never took advantage of the genes that my parents passed on to me. I didn’t run again after my freshman year of college until 12 years later. When I started back up I rekindled the love for running, even though that first day I tried to run I remember vividly the pain of not being able to finish a mile. Here I was a former high school runner who won every regular season race he ever was in as a senior. Now I was feeling the bad choices I made with food and drink. I thought to myself, can I ever get back to where I left off? Within a year I had completed my first ...