I've never been good at blogging....never, but I really want to get better. I had completed BFL over the first months of Spring and Summer and I felt great. I accomplished about half of my goal of weight loss and I was very happy with the results. Instead of going right back into the next phase of BFL I challenged myself to start running again and now I'm four days away from running a half marathon. The increase in endurance has been awesome. I have noticed that my body is much stronger, but I was surprised that after all of this running I have only lost about 10 lbs. I'm not worried at all about it because I don't use scales to judge results, but it's just an example as to why we have to get away from the weight and look in the mirror.

I'm excited about this Saturday, but there have been some recent developments that will make this weekend a bit more challenging than normal. Last Tuesday my wife and I were blessed with our third little boy. Just a day after bringing him home the entire family got nailed with a nasty cold and we are all look and feel like death. Just to make things a bit more interesting my wife and I have pink eye as well! Yeah, it's been crazy. We have all been on medication long enough to not be contagious, but my lungs are not quite right to be running long distance right now, but I am just hoping that a miracle happens and I can run this Saturday. We'll see. :)

On a positive note, I'm excited for this next Monday. After running for the last few months I am going to get back to the gym and start the program over; just a little different this time. This time I am going to put my effort into Shawn Phillips, "Strength For Life" program. I love both BFL and SFL, but I just want to twist things up a bit and keep my body guessing.

If any of you have completed this program yet please share your thoughts!

Cheers,

Eric