ABOUT ME

My plans have always been tentative,
yet I promised myself that I will always be the hardest worker in the room.
By [January 2015], I weighed 320 lbs., dropped out of two colleges, called off my engagement and had undiagnosed depression, high-blood pressure, pre-diabetes, asthma, and 2nd degree hemorrhoids.
Failure has manifested itself in the form of loneliness, fear, and shame. "I should not have been born" I repeated. For two years, I lived in that failure; I had become that failure. Childish as it may sounds, I hummed "I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul." to the tunes of Creep - Vintage Postmodern Jukebox Radiohead Cover ft. Haley Reinhart.
Why a perfect body and a soul? It's very easy to become a research monkey who was an answer to every question but never lifts a finger, or a meat-head jock who can't plan beyond next week. I fear a day when I look back think “youth is wasted on the young” and I also fear ending up overweight taking anti-depressants and wonder what went wrong. 

You become a better human when you work both body and soul.
Hold me accountable:
Perfect Body:
​Cardio:
  1. Volunteer/Race a 100 races
    1. ✔10 Races
    2. 25 Races
  2. ✔ Run a mile no walking breaks [June 2016]
    1. ✔ Sub 10:00 [January 2017]
    2. ✔Sub 9:00  [March 2017]
    3. ✔Sub 8:00  [June 2017]
    4. Sub 7:00

  3. ✔Finish C25K (Couch to 5 kilometers)
    1. ✔Sub 42:00  [August 2016]
    2. ✔Sub 30:00 [February 2017]
    3. ✔Sub 26:00 [September 2017]
    4. Sub 24:00​
 
  1. ✔Run a 10K
    1. ✔Sub 1:15 [November 2016]
    2. ✔Sub 1:00 [August 2017]
    3. Sub 50:00
 
  1. ✔Run a Half Marathon:
    1. ✔Sub 2:30 [August 2017]
    2. Sub 2:15

  2. ✔Finish a marathon uninjured [September 2017]
    1. sub 5:00

  3. Run a 50k
Perfect Soul:
  1. Write a 100 blog posts
    1. 10,000 words
  2. Reading:
    1. ✔​Read 25 books [January 2016]
    2. ✔​Read 50 books [February 2017]
    3. Read a 100 books

Education (go back to school):
  1. ✔Earn my Associate's [with honors December 2017]
  2. Earn my bachelor's.
  3. Become a valedictorian.

Start a Running Revolution:
✔Encourage one person run a 5k
  1. Encourage 10 People 

Translation
  1. Translate Running training plan for all major distances
  2. Translate the Calisthenics Recommended Routine
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Develop Apps to help others:

  1. ✔​To record runs with GPS [August 2017]
  2. Video walkthrough of the calisthenics Recommended Routine.
  3. Running trainer C25K to build running mileage.
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Discipline & Mental Tenacity:
  1. ✔Live in my car for a month [May 2017]
  2. Live without internet, phone, and electronics for a month
  3. Meditation: Breath count 0 to 100 then  back to 0 uninterrupted.
  4. Week long vow of silence. No talking, writing, or hiding