Hello world!

Who am I?  Good question, I’ve been trying to figure that out for years now.  Let’s see, I’m a husband, I’m a son, I’m a grandson, I’m a brother, I’m an uncle,I’m  a cousin, I’m a friend, and I am a cyclist.  I’m from a little place in West Virginia about 20 miles north of Charleston.  I work for the state government plus my family and myself have a little business. 

In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my wife, my rat terrier, and my friends.  I also spend a good bit of time helping moderate the site BikeForums.  If you have any questions about bikes or bike related items it’s a great place to hang out.  There are about 70,000 members there and they all share a common interest…..cycling!  Stop by sometime and take a look.

When I’m not doing any of the above I spend a good amount of time trying to get faster on the bike. I am not one of those guys that is just naturally fast. Honestly, I don’t believe God ever intended for me to be on a bike. I have to work my butt off for every little bit of improvement I get. If that isn’t enough I’m naturally overweight. If I would just eat the way I like and set around all the time like my body encourages me to do I believe I would easily be 250 pounds by now. The way I know this is because a little over two years ago I weighed in right around 220 pounds and my weight was still increasing. Luckily for me I had a heart scare and the doctor told me I had to lose weight. Fast forward about a six months and I was down to around 175. During last season I actually made it down to around 165!

Here is a little before and after shot.

Before and after 

Unfortunately once race season was over I went back to my bad habits. I started eating the way I wanted again which basicly meant Chinese buffet or some type of buffet about four or five times a week. I quickly went back up to 191 pounds!!!! At least that is what I weighed on 1/1/07. I am currently back down to 181. My goal is to be around 175 by my first road race of the year on 2/17/07. I hope to be around 165 by the time mountain bike season starts in April.

Wish me luck!!!

~ by lowcel on February 3, 2007.

Posted in Training

5 Responses to “Hello world!”

  1. If you can do it, I can do it. I need to go from about 220 back to 185. Here’s wishing us both success. Brian

    Brian said this on February 3, 2007 at 8:15 pm

  2. Good luck to you both.

    mr smashy said this on February 3, 2007 at 11:04 pm

  3. Great to see you share your cycling experiences.

    Santiago said this on February 5, 2007 at 11:44 am

  4. Great job Bruce! Hope this season gives you everything you want!

    Born2bahick said this on February 5, 2007 at 2:03 pm

  5. i dream about massaging your creamy thighs

    wheelhot said this on February 9, 2007 at 8:52 pm

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