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Delightful Friday: Home for the Holidays Virtual 10k & Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol

by Stephen Vinson December 23, 2011

Will and I did our long run today. 7.20 MILES! It’s my longest run to date! Got it done in 1 hour, 56 minutes. We are gonna be so ready for the Mercedes Half in February!!! I also count today’s run as my Home for the Holidays Virtual 10k race. After the run, Will and [...]

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Smoothie King Giveaway & Home for the Holidays Virtual 10k

by Stephen Vinson December 22, 2011

Thank you for the overwhelming response to yesterday’s post, and welcome new readers! I hope you stick around. I know this isn’t the most extravagant giveaway that I’ve done, but hey, who doesn’t like smoothies? I frequent my local Homewood, AL Smoothie King for a small Slim-N-Trim Vanilla smoothie. Sometimes I add coffee, peanut [...]

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Wednesday Weigh In: 9 lb loss… Total loss: 288 lbs

by Stephen Vinson December 21, 2011

Weigh-In: Last Weigh-In: 353 LBS Today’s Weigh-In: 344 LBS Loss for the week: -9 LBS Starting Weight 02/01/09: 632 LBS Total Weight Lost Since 02/01/09 : 288 LBS Thoughts: ^^ This smile was brought to you by yours truly working hard last week. ^^ I am very pleased with last week’s performance. I’m finishing this [...]

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I said NO!

by Stephen Vinson December 20, 2011

Two homemade pecan pies and a bucket of caramel corn were staring me in the face this morning when I made coffee. The old Stephen would have torn into one of those pies like nobody’s business, and also would have had a side of caramel corn. NO MORE! Today, I said NO! You know what? [...]

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Basketball, Starbucks Snack, and Unplanned Dinner at a Meeting

by Stephen Vinson December 19, 2011

On the days that I need to do something active for thirty minutes, and when my legs are worn out from running, I like to head to the YMCA and shoot some hoops. Being that I’m a horrible shooter, I run after the ball quite often. Thus, I get a decent little workout in. I [...]

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Long Run and Buffalo Wild Wings

by Stephen Vinson December 18, 2011

Will and I met up at noon today for our six mile long run. We decided to run the first six miles of the Mercedes course. Next Friday we are meeting up for our next long run, seven miles. We’ll start up where we finished today, which means after our run Friday, we will have [...]

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Stitch by Nicki Giveaway

by Stephen Vinson December 18, 2011

One winner will receive one hat of their choosing from Stitch by Nicki. To enter, like the Stitch by Nicki Facebook page, then leave me a comment on this post that you liked the page. Email subscribers get an extra entry for as long as their subscription is active. Already a subscriber? Leave me a [...]

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Streaks

by Stephen Vinson December 17, 2011

I’m on a roll… Here are my streaks: Log food in food journal – daily for 5 weeks Workout at least 30 min. – daily for 5 days Binge free – daily for 5 days Meet with dietitian (Sonthe) – weekly for 12 months It feels good to be on track. Yesterday, my workout was [...]

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Thank You and Another Reader Question (a positive question)

by Stephen Vinson December 16, 2011

I was overwhelmed at the response to yesterday’s post, Reader Question about Running and Negative Comments. Thank you all for your kind words! You and your kind words mean a lot to me. Another Reader Question Yay, another reader question, and this one is positive. JoAnn asked: Well Stephen, I love your blog and I think [...]

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Reader Question about Running and Negative Comments

by Stephen Vinson December 15, 2011

I normally don’t respond to comments that I feel are negative in nature, but I felt this was a good question… Some runners, usually very fast runners, believe that you aren’t a runner if you run slower than a ten minute mile. I’ve been wanting to blog about this, and Tracey from the interwebz refreshed [...]