I wish I'd had the presence of mind to start writing at the beginning, but that is so long ago that filling in the salient blanks may take me forever.
I am in the best shape of my post teenage adult life, and at 46 that is a lamentable fact but one that I am very pleased with. On January 26 2007 I had a stent implanted to the circumflex artery after experiencing acute cardiovascular syndrome. At the time I weighed 281 lbs and had documented total cholesterol levels from 250 to 300 mg/dL.
Today I weigh 217 lbs and my last blood screening showed LDL/HDL levels of 75/25 mg/dL. I have been logging 100 to 150 miles per week on my road bike and have truly not felt better in a very long time. Yesterday I suited up for a chilly afternoon ride here in upstate New York and I spun through a 25.3 mile out and back loop in an hour and twenty two minutes. At an average speed of 18.5 mph, that is faster than I was riding in 1996 at 210 lbs.
In the last year I've had a few health scares and have had to re-evaluate my priorities. I've made some changes and I'm pretty excited by the results and I want to write about them. I find myself setting some long term and short term goals and I want to write about them as well. Along the way I hope to read some of your comments.
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