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What Happened to Wide-Body?
Great question. Where did I go? Well, the funny thing called life caught up with me. I'm coaching my kids flag football team, launching a new product at work, had to travel for work.....it just sort of added up and something had to give. Unfortunatel...
Notes And An Update On A Hero
I've shared with you folks on a few occasions how much I enjoy reading Selene Yeager's, aka The Fit Chick's articles in Bicycling Magazine. I have found her exercise tips to be right on the money and very helpful. The other big news ab...
What Is A Wide-Body? What Is This Site About?
As we kick off the New Year, this is as good of time as any to renew my acquaintance with everyone, to give some context to my nom de plume and hence my raison d’etre. I am the Wide-Body, a self descriptive name for my body type. I have happily be...
Join Me! 2009 Will Be A Great Year To Get Healthy!!
Happy New Years and best wishes to you and your family in 2009!At Widely-Actively, we will continue to provide you with the latest information about Health, Fitness, Lifestyle and Food, from a variety of sources. All of this focused toward the w...
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Everyone
RUDOLPH animated program © & TM Classic Media.The Wide-Body Family wishes all of our readers a safe and happy holiday season. As we draw near the end of this year, I can't help but be reflective on what a year 2008 has been. Ups, downs, and...
I'm Back From Vegas
I just flew back from Las Vegas, and moving a little slow right now. A quick shout out to my mom, Grandma Wide-Body, for looking after the little Wide-Bodies while the wife and I had an extended weekend in Las Vegas. THANK YOU!!!I'm kinda dragging, f...
I'm off the the Las Vegas Marathon
Yep, I really did it. Completed the training, tapered into this final week, focused on a larger carb load this week, and I'm ready to go. I'm heading to Vegas, Baby!! This Sunday is the race and I'm looking forward to it.I picked up a new digital cam...
Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone
Folks,This Thursday, November 27th, here in the United States, we will be celebrating the national holiday of Thanksgiving. For the rest of the world, it will be merely Thursday, a fine day of the week, but still just a Thursday. Close to Friday, but...
Watching the Election Results
I got so caught up in watching the election results on Tuesday that I didn't get my research done to post anything for Wednesday.Everything will be back on track on Thursday....
Crappy Run...
Horrible run, no energy, feel like a slug, I wanna go to bed, too much to do, UGH!blah, blah, blah!Okay, I'll quit being a cry baby. Man, tonight's run SUCKED! Okay, now I'm done bitching about my run.....sort of.I'm not really sure why I feel run do...
Sinus Troubles!! (grumble)
After having two coworkers tell me that I looked like hammered dog crap and my kids said I sounded funny, I finally went in to see the doctor last Friday. What finally pushed me to the edge was, "If I feel this bad all weekend, I will be pissed." So,...
"Does God do what?"....
...I asked my son, his question causing me to give him a shocked smile.My five year old looked at me and repeated the question. "Does God toot? You know, fart?"And we both started to giggle, because that is what boys do when they talk about passing g...
Go Horns!!
Big game this Saturday, Texas vs. Oklahoma. This should be an outstanding game before 92,000 fans and a national audience. This very well could decide the Big 12 champion, though the Mizzou fans may not believe that.The Mizzou Tigers have quite,...
Its the Weekend!!
The next few posts will be focused on the weekend. Get out, eat well, spend some money on new gear, and have some fun!wide-body, health, fitness, lifestyle, food, everyday athletes, mesomorphs, calories, exercise, swimming, running, training, bicycli...
This is going to be a good week!
Folks,This is going to be a good week. I've tried to stay of the foot for the better part of a week, so I'll give everything a spin tomorrow. I've noted a bumch of new articles for everyone, some food, training tips, ideas for managing pain, and a bu...
