Shawsers in Training

I went for my first run in a few weeks. I did almost 9 miles in just over an hour, not bad for not even starting my running training yet. But I felt good most of way, until the last mile where some things were starting to tighten up. I also pre-ordered my Team Running Free gear today, which is cool, I am very excited to be a part of this team this year. I also went to Running Free in Newmarket to check out some of their new products and also had a good talk with John Posca who filled me in on some details about the plans for the Newmarket location, which was cool. Anyways, happy valentines day to everyone Blessings!

This is my first entry to start off my new blog for 2010. This blog will mainly be about my athletic training and races I do throughout the year. I have decided to start off the new year with a goal of lowering my body fat, which is now a contest between my wife Susan and I and our neighbours. We started the challenge on Wednesday, January 6th and it goes for 3 months until Wednesday, March 31. My body fat started at 15%, and we are not just over one month into the contest. I know I am loosing inches on my stomach and putting on some muscle mass and have been sticking to a fairly strict low carb high protein diet, so I know I am loosing body fat. I started out with the P90X workout series in Jan. but at the start of Feb. started the new Insanity workout series from the makers of P90X...Beachbody. I have to say the Insanity work outs are insane as they push your anaerobic threshold mainly with cardio and interval training using your own body weight. I am starting week 3 of this