What is this, anyway?
The Skarfing Project
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Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a change.
I originally created the Skarfing Project as a way to introduce the idea of complete diet, nutrition, and training accountability, to a potentially worldwide audience, using social networking as the communication, logging and tracking tools, as I trained to both run a 3:05 at the Boston Marathon, and complete my 5th 100-mile race at Bighorn in Wyoming in June 2012.
That all changed.
And His Name was Arthur
I got sick. Really sick. As in, dude, you could die, sick.
A single-celled organism, an amoeba, made its way into my body during a 100K race in Nicaragua. I named him Arthur, and decided that he was either going to kill me, or I was going to kill him.
With the help of a team of doctors, massive drugs, and a well-placed drain tube plunged into my liver for three days, it’s possible that we may have won. Arthur, dead.
New Found Strength
There’s something about life-changing experiences. They change your life.
Sure, I missed the Boston Marathon. I’m going to miss most of my 2012 goal races. POOF! Gone. But that’s ok.
I’m starting from scratch and I don’t care. I’ve lost weight, but it’s going to come back. I’ve lost muscle, but I will build it again. I’ve lost running speed, endurance and significant stability - but again, I will get it back.
I Will Not Quit
I’m not beaten, just reduced.
Reduced to the very bottom. A new beginning. A chance to do things differently. Perhaps more slowly. …perhaps I won’t have a choice.
But one thing is for sure, I will not quit. I will fight through the pain. I will fall down. I will get up. I will drop weights, and I will pick them right back up. I won’t be able to do a pull-up or a deadlift or even run a mile - yet - but I will.
I will come back better than ever and its going to all be documented right here.
…from the bottom.
I’m bouncing back from bottom. Feel free to follow along.
