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Highlights of getting into shape this summer
For 7 weeks now, I have been lifting weights, improving flexibility, speed and balance, playing beach volleyball, biking 7k each way to work (and all over the city) and eating better. It’s amazing what you can do in 7 weeks.
- Daily bike rides to work leave me with a wicked tan
- People whispering “He’s hardcode!” after I biked to work during one of our torrential downpours of the summer and arrived more wet than if I’d just climbed out of the lake
- Having to add two additional holes to a belt to get it to fit
- Being able to play with and carry my 2 year old for much longer
- Being able to - for the first time in my life - touch my toes without hurting something
- My fiancé calling my sexy and me believing her
- Seeing my love handles almost gone this morning
- Feeling proud to take off my shirt
- Being called svelte by a friend who hadn’t seen me in over a year
- Climbing stairs is no longer a chore
- Faster reflexes saved a bottle of wine that otherwise would have smashed
