Ride & Ruckus is the name of this blog, but it also represents a general attitude toward life.R&R started because I want a place to share adventures and experiences that I gather.
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About the Author
Since October 3rd of 2008, I have been on a quest. Prior to that date I was a pack a day smoker, I ate like a child with a debit card and I drank heavily. I wasn’t exactly an alcoholic, but that disease was certainly in my future if things didn’t change. Well, luckily I quit smoking on October 3rd, 2008 and my quest began. Heck, at first I didn’t even know I was on a quest, I just wanted to quit smoking. Maybe the shortage of nicotine flipped a switch in my head or something because things started to change. It was mostly rumblings until around December I had a long flight back east for a wedding, and friend lent me a book. That book, Ultramarathon Man by Dean Karnazes. I hate horrible inspirational story lines that involve someone reading a book and magically deciding to change their life, but damned if it didn’t happen to me. I ended up reading the entire book on the plane, and from that moment I was a changed man of the highest order. Dean’s book literally changed my life. The part that really hit me was when I read the words on those pages was the fact that Dean made a conscious decision to start living his life to the fullest every single day. I took inventory of my life, and realized that there were so many ways that I allowed myself to walk around like someone who was half dead. Sure I had a great family and job, but I had fallen into a rut in life where I was willing to accept substandard circumstances, and had no inclination to change them. Well, that was about enough of that. Things were going to change.
Smash cut to today, I am no where near the same league as people like Dean Karnazes, but I am a man who’s life has changed. I don’t smoke, rarely drink, have lost 30 pounds, and I put in many hours a week either cycling, running or strength work. I only see things getting bigger, faster and longer from here. If you keep reading this blog, you can follow along with the adventures of my life.
Love it! There were times when I didn’t want to get out the door cuz it was raining or cold or I wanted to eat or go back to bed and iId say to myself “what would Dean do?” We actually started saying that during our training runs when we felt challenged. The answer of course is that Dean would do much more so what the heck were we complaining about!