Got myself out for a jog-walk. Ten kilometers. 8:07 per kilometer, or about 13:15 per mile. Walking pace, basically. I walked a kilometer then jogged a kilometer. It was not pretty, it was not pleasant.

Painted some trim boards for the deck. I have come to realize that the stupid deck project will never be done.

Tried to go without Coca Cola today. Felt like a zombie, out of touch, irritable, depressed, sad. Finally broke down and poured myself a glass to have before dinner. I don’t know if this is gonna work. It’ll be tough when I go back to work on Monday.

Read all the posts on a new fitness blog, Steve Roy’s Single Dad, Fit Dad site. He’s got some good stuff on there already. It’s good to get in on a blog like this from the ground floor, so to speak, and to watch it develop. Steve seems to be more grounded in reality than a lot of lifestyle / fitness bloggers. In the fitness realm it’s hard to beat Steve Kamb’s Nerd Fitness site, but Steve Roy is targeting “midlife men” who are out of shape and looking to improve. It’s a niche audience that Nerd Fitness doesn’t fully address, catering as it does toward a younger, and increasingly female, audience, many of whom already are at a creditable level of fitness. Single Dad, Fit Dad isn’t for the already-fit crowd, but more about mid-life guys who might be self-conscious about being out of shape. Guys like, y’know, me, f’r instance!

Steve Roy has been running another site, Ending The Grind, but he’s currently scaling it back to focus more specifically on the fitness blog.

I tell you, though, the difficulty I have in cutting back on the processed sugar and the Coca Cola may totally preclude me from ever dropping the forty pounds I’ve gained in the last thirteen months, or the almost sixty pounds I’d like to lose altogether.