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Glad you dropped by! I try to post every few days or so. You can use the subscribe feature in the left column to get an email when I post. I post video updates in the right column. Further down the page are photo albums, slideshows, archives of prior posts, etc. I write a monthly article for the Pituitary Network Association chronicling my many years of coping with a pituitary disorder and you can read them by looking in the PNA articles section in the right column. You can read the latest article by clicking on Summer/Fall 2006.

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Jim's First Gluten-Free Body-for-LIFE Challenge

Music/progress video celebrating my big comeback from Celiac with clips from my bike rides and progress photos from my very successful 12 week Body-for-LIFE challenge (8/24/09 - 11/14/09).

Music/progress video celebrating my big comeback from Celiac with clips from my bike rides and progress photos from my very successful 12 week Body-for-LIFE challenge (8/24/09 - 11/14/09.

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celiac  gluten-free  bicycle  bfl  body-for-life  comeback  weight loss 

Week 7 progress slideshow

After 7 weeks on my Body-for-LIFE challenge which began 8-24-09...

The 2009 Tour De Poway

Sunday, I took on my toughest bike ride of 2009. When I commited to doing the Tour De Poway 50-miler in August it seemed almost crazy to attempt such a hilly ride that starts out with a 3-mile climb up an 8% grade...

My longest ride in years

On Saturday 9/26/2009 I headed back to the coast to see how many miles I could do on the bike even though I wasn't feeling too chipper...

Smilin' perty...

Got some new teeth today and couldn't wait to show 'em off...

4 week Body-for-LIFE progress slideshow

I just completed my first 4 weeks of this Body-for-LIFE challenge. I created a slideshow with before/after photos and stats. I also rode the bike a total of 420 miles in the same 4 weeks including a 56-miler yesterday... 

50 miles!

After breaking through the 40 mile barrier last weekend, I headed to the coast on Saturday (9/12/2009) to see if I could do 50. After the ride, I reflected on just how far I've come from the rough start to 2009...

The quest for 40 miles...

On Saturday, 9/5/2009, I headed to the coast to see if I could do 40 miles on the bike...

Another day, another night ride...

I had a big day today. I got a late start - partly because I needed extra sleep, but mainly because of my topsy-turvy sleep cycle. When most people are asleep, I'm hanging out with the vampires. I got up about 1:30 but was still tired. I laid down on the couch and finally made it to the gym a little after 5PM and completed a strong lower-body workout. I brought my RC glider with me and got in a nice 15-minute flight - catching a few thermals, just like I used to...

I ran out of daylight, so I once again transformed into my alter ego - the "Night Rider"... It was an enjoyable 12 miles of easy pedaling under a full moon. I thought to myself "My, how things have changed...when a night ride is routine..."  Here's a jazzed-up photo from tonight's ride...

22-mile night ride

I'm really getting serious about this night riding! I did four night rides last week and have done two so far this week. Tonight's ride was 22 miles, my longest night ride since 1995. With the temperatures being so hot during the day, the night riding option has really been a plus, enabling me to continue to make progress on the bike and of course my fitness overall. I keep careful graphs and records of my rides and the speed is going up while the heart rates are going down.

It's funny that while I am so determined to improve my physical conditioning, in one way I'm trying to reverse conditioning. After countless comebacks being derailed by illness over the last 13 years, a certain kind of conditioning has been imprinted emotionally and mentally. My outlook is very positive but yet there's that conditioned response that expects things to fall apart any day now. But I have to just keep on trucking and have faith that this comeback is for real and will last... Here's the Garmin chart from the ride...