The great debate.

When you look at the presidential candidates they both scare me. All you hear is the bad stuff. You here they will take all our money, that they are tied to bad politics. It just seems from all of the media that we are picking the best of the two crooked people we can find. Is anything that the ads say true? Maybe this is not an issue with the candidates as it is with the media. I watched the debates and they both have good ideas. Some better than others. Everyone wants to blame republicans and Pres. Bush. Part of America's problems were created from the previous Pres. They just did not take effect until Bush was in office. The economic crisis is a problem caused by crooked companies trying to make a dollar at any cost. Now look where that has got us. Where is the individual responsibility come into play.

They say that they need to raise taxes but when there are more people paying taxes than ever. Why do they need more from individuals. Plus Obama talks about raising taxes on the 250,000 and more. He says that is the rich and businesses. What he fails to see is that the rich and businesses will find a way to pass that new tax along to the poor and middle class. So tell me who is actually getting taxed? It is like the oil companies. If they shell out more money for something they just raise the price which effects everyone.

Well this all really has no point but it was some of my thoughts.

I know you will not agree but that is why it is my blog.

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Biggest Loser is over Yeah!!!!!

Tonight was the biggest loser ending date. I think I was dehydrated like a prune. My wife and I did awesome. I am hoping that I pulled out a win. We will see later this week. I am so tired of the 2.5 hour work outs that we had to pull 2 times a week. Plus you have 2 or 3 more a week just to pull in the weight loss you want each week. I know that we both worked our butts off. No pun intended. I still want to maybe keep a 2 times a week training session with other workouts included. It just will be without the rigid schedule. My hope is to take the rest of the week off and plan a half century ride this weekend. It will be a milestone. I have never gone that far. It is kind of scary. What if I have a flat. I guess the phone will come in handy. Plus 15 miles out there is a bike store. I can always stop in there. I will have to maybe get another drink carrier or plan on buying more fluid. But this all depends on my schedule and the weather. It is supposed to warm up and and be nice this week.

On other news our 2nd offspring got a great report on the parent teacher conference. This school thing seems to be paying off. Maybe there is something to this school thing.

I did it whoopie!!!!!!!

Well just an update first of all on my week and weekend. My son has his first basketball game of the year. It is his first and although he did not make a basket he really did impress me. I have to be realistic and say that he probably will not be another Kobe or Shaq but for him, he did great.

This weekend we went camping. It included a trip to Youngs dairy farm for a corn maze adventure for the kids and feeding the goats. Some of the kids got Ice cream and mine just got a dr pepper. How strange. We had a great night camping with a little hike in the morning.

Then I went for a bike ride. I have finally broke the 40 mile mark. I rode 41 miles and am surprisingly able to walk today. Only 9 more to the half century rides.

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Tired but excited

During this long process of the biggest loser contest I have been phisically drained. It has got me in better shape faster than I probably would have done on my own. My endurance is coming back up and for the first time since May I ran 1.5 miles. Now I took my time doing this. I am making no projections or do I need to hurry this along. But I am hoping this is a good sign. I would love to run the turkey trot even if I have to walk some of it. If I ran it all I think that would be to much to quick. So we will see how it goes. The trainer Leon upped most of the weights we are doing so last nights workout was tougher than usual. I made it through and is felt more like a weight session than normal.

Biking is getting increasingly colder for me. I am going to have to put on my under armour thermals or I am going to freeze. I know at some point I will have to stop or I will have to get an inside trainer. I did 30 miles on Monday night. I improved my time by over 4 minutes. It was probably due to the fact I hooked up with someone else and I did not want to let him go. It was good motivation for me.

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Shout out for our friends

We have friends named Bryan and Melissa. Today they ran in Columbus Ohio. Melissa ran the whole marathon and Bryan ran the half Marathon. My wife and I are so proud of them. The both accomplished the goals they set for themselves. Know you have to understand that Bryan had barely run before the training season started. Our day started early. We got up at 6:30 and took off around 7:30. We drove to Columbus and set ourselves up at the halfway point to see Melissa run by. She was at the front of the Pace group she had signed up for. She looked like she was putting in little effort which is good when you are only half way of 26.2 miles. We cheered her on and went to the finish. We missed Bryan somehow due to his master disguise but we cheered Melissa as she came to the finish. We managed to catch up with them at the celebration park. She qualified for BOSTON. You go girl and Bryan reached his time goal he had set. He looked great for running 13.1 miles for the first time ever. He blew away his longest run by 4 miles. Running is a individual sport but I think that you need support to run. So give them a shout out if you know them. They both definitely deserve the cheers and thata boys that you give. I suggest we start a letter writing campaign to convince her to run BOSTON. Did I say BOSTON. It is such a historic race. She would love it.
I have never run or even been there but it is a legend in the sport. So cheer cheer away.

You go guys.


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Kings Island

Have you ever heard the Bill Cosby skit about the playground. I won't tell it all but he basically tells that people created playgrounds are out to mame people. Kings Island is out to make me hurl. I am finding this year that my body is just not what it used to be. I went for the 4th time this year and in 3.5 hours I rode 4 rides. That was about good for me. You know when your head is feeling whooooooozy and achy.
Kids just don't seem to understand. Luckly I brought his friend along so he could take my place. I think that my brain fluid is low. Is this a medical situation. Can I get a fill up? Like go to the brain oil change. I have tried everything. I have tried hydration, relaxing, straining almost till I poop (not really). It all seems to leave me whooozy. I might be deligated to being the lonely parent on the side that is only there as a shaperone. It was great to see my son have a great time though. We will have to see if it is better or worse next year.

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Catching up

Well like usual it has been awhile. I have been in a biggest loser competition so my workouts have been crazy. My ankle is so so but I am getting back in shape. My longest ride on my bike has been 30 miles so far for about 1 hr and 43 min. It felt good to be back in the saddle. I have been at the y at least 3 nights a week and at least 2 or 3 rides a week. This makes for a crazy schedule. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have at least a 2 to 2.5 hour workouts. Part of it is weight training.
I have managed to lose 26 pounds in 5 weeks. I an slimming down which makes me feel more peppy.

My wife is doing great in the competition also. I think she would be a personal trainer if she had time. She loves the accountability of the program. I am so proud of her. I know that with all the other responsibilities in life it is hard to take time out for this. I will leave her results out to save my hide. She is doing awsome though.

Our son has started basketball and we will see if he actually has any talent. He seems to like practice so far. He seems to be able to dribble. He can shoot reasonably well.

Well that is it for know

Later.