Long post.

60lbs down in 2015.
Not obese anymore.

I spent 3 hours in the gym yesterday. Definitely could have gotten out in under 2, but I spent a LOT of time trying to take a gym selfie. No dice.

Got through the Thanksgiving + Mom's birthday combo. Don't have to do that one again for another 5 years.

Yes I had to look it up. Apparently it cycles between 5-6-7-6-5 years between repeat dates.

The more you know!


The easy part is losing weight. You just eat less than you burn. Numbers never lie. Couldn't be easier.

The hard part is not being slow as balls. Actually have to do footwork drills and workout and push yourself. Can't just walk an extra two miles.

Honestly, though, I think I can get by without adding speed. I know how to leverage my clearing and movement to make it easy to get open, I just need to have the endurance to keep it up and leverage even harder. I've mentioned it to some people before -- if you watch really good NBA point guards (Steph Curry, Chris Paul), when they have the ball, they do a similar thing. I wrote a paragraph trying to explain it but it was awful. Sorry.

Alright let's try again. Think of the advantage you get from doing a throw-and-go. The first step off your throw gets you so far ahead. If you have the speed you can just keep running and go upline, if you don't (or don't want to), they still have to respect the upline, and you can fake it to get an easy reset behind. It is so easy to get open after throwing. Everyone knows this.

So, instead of sprinting and trying to immediately get the disc back, you run just fast enough, and to the right spots, to maintain the advantage you got from the first step off a throw and go. Instead of being forced to cash in your advantage immediately, you can delay it. People do this a lot without knowing it.

It is a lot of the reason why its much easier to get open during the first ~3 seconds of the stall count. There's only so long you can hold the advantage. It's also why its often correct, after throwing, to clear WIDE and to be the 2nd dump, because by the time you get there, its around stall  4, and then the disc is looking to reset. You can THEN cash in your throw-and-go advantage, either to get the disc if the first reset fails, or into a swing if they get it. If you just run to the 1st dump position, you probably can't hold the advantage past stall 2 or 3, and then when they look around stall 4 or 5, you're essentially cutting off a dead disc.

Sorry, I really don't want to do homework.

Defense is a lost cause anyway, let's be real, I'm 5'5", unless I get legitimately fast, I'm forcing my guy under the rest of my life. Just need to have the endurance to contest in-cuts and maintain positioning.

ANYWAY gotta finish this homework so I can gym so I can eat dip and drink beer.