{From the ostrich family}

You all know that I'm in the running clinic with Lisa.

We have a wonderful trainer that is conditioning our bodies for various goals.

The last 3 weeks have been a lot of cardio, strength building and stretching.

This next week we will be going into running intervals for stamina.

I've learned a lot about my body.

The goods, but mostly bads and uglies.

Don't worry tho...I'm not freaking out about the 

b's and u's.

Just the opposite.

It's been a real eye opener to how out of shape I really am.  I am super stoked to be doing something about it!

I have been under my own brain wash that I am a pretty healthy person.

I eat well, I always take walks and am always encouraging my family to be active.

Shit...I am undefeated in leg wrestling, mercy fights and titty twisters!

How much better shape does a person need to be???

What I am realizing, is that you can have the strength of an ox and still have no muscle.

Seems like an oxymoron but it's true.

I have no idea where my unheard of strength comes from when I have minimal muscle mass!

This all comes to play in the way my body is effected by my running/work outs.

My knees are suffering from patellar tendinitis.

This is caused by being knock-kneed and having over pronation (which my boat shoes help with a lot),

and having extremely weak quad and ass muscles.

Well really.....

NO quad or ass muscles!

Hence the pancake butt.

And because of the lack of quad and ass muscles, I tend to run forward on my toes and take too much impact on my knees.

Just envision an ostrich running.

I totally fit the picture in your mind.

I'm pretty sure I should have had leg braces* as a child.

This just aint right!!

I'm calling it child neglect and I'm pissed about it now!

*My opinion only

To help build these quad/ass muscles I've been instructed to do 25-30 squats a day.

I figured if I'm gonna put in the work, I should have a goal to reach for.

They say that if you put a picture in front of you that mimics what it is you want to look like, it can help propel your dream.

So here we go.

This is my dream ass.

I figure I only have 57839049 more squats to go :)

This is probably Randy's dream ass too.

Hey Randy!!!  I'm working on it!!!

Quit asking me if I've put in my squat time!

I know you are excited about the possibilities but my hell!

be nice to the handicapped!