Too Much Computer Support, Not Enough Exercising!

 Welcome to my blog, which is mostly meant to keep me on track and motivated for the upcoming Triathlon season (in 5 months). I work full time as an IT Business Analyst, and I noticed a couple years ago that sitting at a computer all day every day tends to gain you a bunch of weight, so I joined my local gym and started to enjoy weight lifting and cardio. In about august of 2010 I was able to run 5km without too much effort, so what did I do? I signed up for my first ever race of 10km, the Audi's Best Buddies Challenge.I finished in 295th place in 1h00m46s, not too bad for my first race, but I was hooked. After this race it turns out I had cracked my foot, and couldn't run for 5 weeks, this sucked big time as I was dying to do some running..eventually my foot healed I was able to run again. I signed up for one more race that year, Burlington's 5k Santa Race, approximately 3,000 race in Santa suits, this was a blast, but unfortunately I hurt my knee in this run and again couldn't run for 4 weeks while I did Physio.

After I recovered this time, I read a book called Born to Run, which convinced me to toss my runners and get a pair of Vibram KSO's, I ran in nothing but these for all my races in 2011, and haven't had an injury yet.

In 2011 I ran in 1 Sprint Triathlon, 2 Try-A-Tri triathlons, a Warrior Dash, and a Zombie run (best race yet).. all of which I'll detail in other posts.

Currently I've started back in my training for the 2012 season, I want to compete in Olympic Triathlons, and a Tough Mudder or two, so I figure I better get an early start, and hopefully this blog keeps my training and nutrition honest!

2011 Run For Your Lives (!!!) Zombie Race

My roommate brought this race to my attention earlier this year. A 5k obstacle race with people dressed as zombies trying to take away 3 "flags" away from you attached to your waist via Velcro, this sounded too good to be true! My roommate, myself and another friend decided to make the trip down to the race from Burlington, ON which is about a 6 hour drive, we arrived at a hotel which looked a lot like the motel from Left 4 Dead (coincidence?)

The next morning we were off to the race (about 30 minutes away). Everything was quite organized and nicely set up, not bad since it was the first and only race of it's kind this year. The race was a blast, jumping and dodging zombies trying to grab your flags is really good exercise and the obstacles they had set up were very entertaining, and some quite cold:

I'd say it was the hardest run I've done yet. At the end of the race their were two finish lines, one for survivors and one for zombies (people who had all 3 flags taken), I'm proud to say I made it out as a survivor with one flag left. The most fun part of the whole race was the party that ensued after. For an extra $20 you could get the camping package, which included convenient access to the area they had set up with concerts, beer tents, food tents (pulled pork! mmmm). I met someone who in my opinion, had the best costume there, if you don't recognize it as being the umbrella corporation from Resident Evil, then congratulations on not being a geek. Any how, to wrap this up, it's an amazing race and I suggest everyone sign up for their 2012 races, I'm already signed up for the race in Boston: www.runforyourlives.com

Yes, that's the family guy dog, I'm a nerd...