How Not to Get Fat in Quarantine

I know we’ve all said or thought, “If I had more time, I would [fill in the blank with an aspirational, impressive goal].” For some of us, that's to get fit or to go complete Marie Kondo in our living space or to write a novel. Now that many of us have that extra time that we’ve always wished for, ignoring the unfortunate situation that gave us the time, we’ve now realized that it requires more than just time. It requires a butt-ton of motivation. Butt-ton is a technical term, right?

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So...2020...Am I Right?

Hi Everyone! As you all know...unless you’re Jared Leto or the German cast of Big Brother... a lot has been going on. It took me a while to figure out what to write. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to focus on the state of the Games… the Pandemic… or something to keep our minds off of both of those topics. As is my nature, I’ve decided to touch on all of them.

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Over The Rainbow *Dramatic Hair Flick*

One of the first things I said to my mother as she swatted mosquitoes away from my legs and arms while I was lying immobile in the woods immediately following my accident was, “I’m going to be the first person in a wheelchair to jump into the Grand Canyon!” I’m sure her initial reaction to that was somewhere between “he’s surely concussed” and “my kid’s an idiot”.

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"Are You Going to Tokyo?"

Now that the new year is here, I am in full-tilt training for Tokyo 2020.  The most popular question I get is “Are you going to Tokyo?”. The answer, in short, is that I don’t know yet.  Here’s how I get there.

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