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A progress report
Restart & progress since February 18. I started up again on getting exercise again just two & a half weeks ago, on Monday, February 18, doing about 30 minutes dancing with my iPod each morning before I went to work. … Continue reading
Posted in Fitness
Tagged March Madness, progress report (fitness), rowing, rowing challenges, Turbulence Training
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My nutritional approach (state of my art)
Originally written for my Burn the Fat Inner Circle progress journal. My nutritional approach History. On December 21, 2005 (winter solstice), I made the crucial decision to heed the warning brought to me through the grief of my mother’s death … Continue reading
Posted in Nutrition
Tagged Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, Melz state of my art (health/fitness)
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Motivation & goals
Because one of the keys to motivation with me is keeping track of what I’m learning & doing & also writing about it (hence this blog), & doing so within a community of other people who are doing the same … Continue reading
Posted in Terveys
Tagged Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, Melz goals, rowing, Turbulence Training
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Refresher
I started up again on getting exercise again just two & a half weeks ago, on Monday, February 18, doing about 30 minutes each morning before I went to work. Incredible how even that little bitty bit improved things. I … Continue reading
Reactivation
Reactivation in the sense of getting off my duff & getting active again. Reactivation in the sense of writing this blog again. It’s been nearly a year & a half since I’ve done either with any consistency — not since … Continue reading
Lentil soup
Lentil soup Some lentil soup I made tonight, with onions, carrots, celery, carrots, pickles, & kale. Recipe Okay, here’s how I cooked it: 2 cups uncooked lentils1 cup brown basmati rice8 cups water1 onion chopped2 carrots chopped2 celery stalks chopped2-3 … Continue reading
10,533 meters
My first go at a really long row: 60 minutes, in which I rowed 10,533 meters (that’s 10.5 km, folks) with an average time per 500 meters of 2:50.9. I’ll probably want to give 10,000m rows a few more … Continue reading
Skeleton Crew challenge: met
I bought a Concept 2 Model D indoor rower with my Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend last month, & got started using it right away, just in time to participate in Concept 2’s annual Skeleton Crew challenge to row over 31,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged Concept 2, rowing, rowing challenges, Skeleton Crew
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Didn't notice when I took it….
Me, today First day of snow in Anchorage this year, though doesn’t look like it’ll last. Enough that I had to brush the snow off my car this morning, & take it real slow & easy driving to work. At … Continue reading
Mercy
From Kadu’s point of view: what she lives with, having killed a man to effect her escape from her greatest enemy. This is a new writing based on an original narrative account written for a collaboration with a friend. Which, who knows, one day we may get back to.
Posted in Short fiction
Tagged collaboration, Kadu, Scheherazade Project, Yksin
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