Getting things fixed...

It happened. I finally broke the 180 lb barrier. I haven't been in the 170's since September of last year, which is 6 months ago. I weighed in today at 179.0 lbs with a 21.4 BMI. I've lost 7.8 lbs and lowered my BMI by 1.2 in the past 24 days. I also had only 3 beers in all that time. I wonder if there is a relationship between beer consumption and weight? I wonder???

One of my progress goals, which it looks like I'm going to achieve is to be 179 lbs or less by the time of the Mississauga half marathon this Sunday. I hope my pigging out, er, I mean "Carbo loading" at Tony Roma's tonight won't sabotage my efforts. Although I am proud to say that I did have the discipline to turn down the post diner mint.

I took today off from training as part of my tapering plan. I needed the rest in order to give my left foot, left knee and lower left abdomen time to heal. I hurt my knee weight training yesterday. Unfortunately I'm going into this race at about 80 -85% healthy. I just hope I don't do any further damage.

Today has been fix it day. I've been dealing with Microsoft to fix a wireless networking issue and with my gas guy to fix our outdoor patio heater. I have dealt with Apple support and now I've had experience dealing with Microsoft support. There is no comparison, hands down Apple is the best. Apple will stay with you until the problem is solved and their call center is in North America and they speak English as a first language. Microsoft still hasn't fixed my problem and is trying to set up an appointment time for another tech support person to call me. They are also based out of India and I have to keep asking them what they just said because they don't speak clear English. It's very frustrating. 

The very good news is that I got my patio heater fixed. It is a commercial grade patio heater and has never really worked that well since I got it 3 years ago. I called the company that sold it to me and they said to bring it in. They ended up changing the entire inside of the unit and didn't charge me for it. When I got it home it still didn't work and determined it was a gas line problem. The gas guy came and fixed the line and now the heater works great. It's working better than when we originally got it. Now I'm not sure if the unit was the problem or it was the gas line all along. Either way we now have essentially a brand new patio heater.

To me, it is really important that we have the patio heater working. Summer is coming and Alice and I like to spend weekend evenings outside, listening to 70's music and having cocktails until the wee hours of the morning. This evening I sat in my chair and tested out the heater. It worked perfectly. If you look closely at the picture you will see that is a diet Pepsi on the table and not a beer, unfortunately. 

I don't plan on depriving myself of beer this summer, so I only have about 4 weeks left to get down to my fighting weight.

Rest / Taper day.