Where I should be
Well its been an exciting and life changing past few weeks. I made my move to the Carolinas (yes Im right on the coastal border of both states) 2 weeks ago. I landed a full time paramedic position with a very aggressive county department, unfortunately its taking forever for my N. Carolina Paramedic card to come thru, so im basically sitting down here, quickly running out of money waiting to start my job. I haven’t missed a workout since moving and in fact the workouts have changed alot. The overall enviroment and sense of happiness and feeling as tho im where I should be has been paying dividends in the gym. Im training at Gold’s in N. Myrtle Beach now and doing my cardio on the beaches. Currently im running 3 miles every other day and do 2 addt’l sessions in the gym. I’ve kept my bodyfat percentage right at the 9% mark and have gained about 5lbs of quality mass over the last month. Currently im taking in about 2300cals per day with 375g Protein and 300g Carbs, I do cycle in 2 low carb days a week and keep it under 80g those days. So far despite not starting my job yet, this move has been a great thing and I haven’t regreted it once since leaving. I miss my children like crazy, but even with my move I have found a special thing for us to do, every night I call them at bed time and read them a book before bed, yes I went out and bought a bunch of children books. My son calls me after all his soccer games and tells me how the game went and practices playing his guitar over the phone to me. While this isn’t the same as being there with them, it helps lesson the pain of not being with them, and it seems to help with their adjustment as well. On the competition front, well there are a few different show options for me to do in this area from now until late october, I have to seriously sit back and think about what I need to do to be most competitive and the time line for achieveing it, realistically I think it will be a show in September or October as I now plan to go light heavy and wanna compete at 190lbs which is about where I was with 4 weeks out from the May 3 show, meaning I need to add about 12 lbs of lean muscle or so. I’ll keep all updated on when I will be competeing and begin posting new pics at that time. Until then…..STRENGTH & HONOR
May 7, 2008 at 8:33 pm
You’re alive!! And well!! And - gasp - running!! I’m glad you’re acclimating to your new environment well - you were (and are!) greatly missed! That’s fantastic that you’re still able to keep some bonding time with your children, too… I’m glad you updated, Mike!! Please update more often, especially with your hopes of a comp - awesome! xo my dear friend!!
May 12, 2008 at 12:22 pm
It’s great to hear that you get that ‘where I’m supposed to be’ feeling. I just get this feeling that something good is going to come of this. I’m glad that the gym is working out for you and I am impressed with the measures you’re taking to deal with the pain of missing your kids. All the best to you.
June 28, 2008 at 8:45 pm
That’s really good to hear, Mike ^_^ The phone calls to your kids mean the world to them, I’m sure. So glad to hear that you’re keeping in such great contact with them. WTG MIKE!!