Fitness Progress

As noted in our emails, congratulations to all of us on successfully navigating the first half of our fitness challenge.  For me personally, I know that it doesn't feel all that much like a challenge anymore, which was kind of the underlying intent.  Now I just feel like I need to work out because, well, that's what I need to do.

Ed, in regards to your post about plateauing on the swimming, I realized something today that I thought was worth adding to the conversation.  I don't feel like I'm making incredible progress on my fitness, because I'm pretty much doing everything solo.  However, today I went mountain biking with a friend who is relatively early in his own kind of fitness challenge.  I'll just say that riding with him showed me just how good my cardio and cycling health is right now.  I know that it's not awesome in any sense, but riding with someone who is not in good cardio health made me feel like a superman.  There wasn't anything too steep on the ride, but he was hurting even when I felt like we were riding really slow.  I had to pause every minute or two to let him catch up.  I was riding on my largest sprocket in about third gear, and he was cranking on his smallest sprocket, struggling.

I just wanted to mention that to offer some encouragement.  You may not feel or see the progress all the time, but if you put yourself out there with guys your age that aren't doing much... well, you'll be proud of what you've accomplished.

Let's keep rolling into the second half... nice work guys!