It’s 5:15. In the morning. Dang. This is probably the earliest  post I’ve ever done at BIT. I am not a morning person. So why am I up? There’s only one reason: to get better Ever since I quit LifeTime Fitness and joined my local community club (The Monon Center), I’ve had to adjust some of my workout habits. The [...]

At the beginning of July I said I wanted to do a race this month. I didn’t care what type of race it was (5k, 10k, or tri), I just wanted to do something competitive and hopefully one of them crossed off my list. Well, as it turns out, this past weekend I did do a race that wasn’t even on my radar: The Mudathlon.

This is the 2nd of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the first part of the review here. *** In my last review, I touched on a bunch of the things I really like about my VFFs. In this second part of the review, I’m touching on [...]

If you’re going to get good at anything you have to surround yourself with people who are better than you, people who believe in you and people who challenge you. The more you do that. The faster you do that. The faster you improve. *** If you surround yourself with people who have no goals lack motivation show no discipline [...]

[Update June 25th] Jesse gives a sweet case study on how he shot the Race Across America over on his blog & portfolio site: JesseOxford.com. He was also featured over on Planet 5D, a site dedicated to shooting on the Canon 5D. They did it! Team Durham cares rode into the docks in Annapolis yesterday morning about 6:30am. Their final time: [...]

Every once in a while I’ll do something completely random at last minute notice. Three years ago I booked a ticket to Paris for 5 days, 24 hours before we left. Last summer I went to Jamaica for a month on 2 weeks notice. This past March on 24 hours notice, I went to Maui for Perry Marshall’s exclusive internet [...]

This is 1st part of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the second part of the review here. *** photo credit: Richard Monteverde A few weeks back I took a plunge and got a pair of Vibrams Five Finger running shoes. After using them for a few weeks, I [...]

Suleman is a 31 year old, tie salesman from Nigeria. 9 months ago, Suleman asked for a $650 loan to grow his business and build a better life for himself and his family. 9 complete strangers decided to loan Suleman the full amount. I put in $25. That was 9 months ago. Yesterday he paid the final installment on his loan! I [...]

I was talking with one of my good friends Roshanda about our respective blogs the other day. While Roe writes about a completely different subject matter [fair trade, handmade crafts and clothing] than I do, we were empathizing over the general difficulty of the whole blogging process. I told her that no matter how much I write, I always feel like I’m blogging my ass off and [...]