It has been a few weeks since I last posted here and the reason has been that I had injured my leg while running at Face to Face.

I have tried some physio and massage therapy but the best results have been hard hands on muscle restoration work by Fred Aylward at FitbyFred in Halifax.

Painful and not fun but very effective.

Face to Face 2009 is now over and what an extraordinary experience! Being with F2F delegates is one of the best things an entrepreneur can do - to be inspired, pumped up, motivated, entertained, rejuvenated.

The candid and moving tales told by people like Dean Hartman - owner of Nubody's Fitness - show the rest of us that even the most succesful entrepreneurs have their dark days - living near the edge of the precipice and needing real help to get safely back.

It has occured to me that over the past year I have been encouraged to tell my story of transformation from fat, unfocused and in a dangerous situation to slim, focused and being in a healthier place many times.

Indeed, last night a friend called from Vancouver and had seen my photo in the magazine and was amazed at what had happened. She wanted to hear the whole story and at the end of our conversation she told me that she was going to start changing her  life.

So after sort of recovering from the flu/cold which enveloped me before and after the Blue Nose race, I seem now ready to get back into the training mode and indeed since I have been inactive for about five days I am feeling really crunchy - and very anxious to be back in the gym and on the road.

Next weekend, we here at Progress go "on the road" to Digby for several days at the Pines and our annual Face to Face conference.

So, it's Sunday morning and my main man Luke MacDonald and I not only  finished the 10k run but we arrived at the finish line in style...

Managed to beat Gerry Walsh (he's one of the founders of this event and the person who got me involved in the race)   Now the only reason I mention right off the top that we beat Gerry is because of some competitive like comments he made to us on the route...About half way through he announced that  "being ahead or behind only matters at the finish line" - IT WAS GAME ON!

Just two days until the big Bluenose race throughout Halifax and Dartmouth. 

Looking like it’s going to rain for the whole weekend but for those of us who have been training as part of Team Myles this should not be a problem. 

We began running Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings in late January 2009.

7:00am at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax and most mornings throughout February and March were absolutely miserable weather-wise.

We ran in rain, snow, rain on snow, heavy ice underfoot, freezing cold and one day the sun actually shone.

So it’s just four days before the big race: The Bluenose Marathon. I’m going to be running the 10k portion of the Bluenose ( throughout Halifax and Dartmouth) and I have been “in training" for the past four months.

And that is seriously strange for me. Just more than a year ago I wouldn’t have bet a nickel I was ever going to run in a 10k race let alone be planning to run two more this summer, and later in the year start training for a half-marathon in the Bluenose 2010.

So as I wrote in the February/March edition of Progress, I had reached a stage in my life where it was all going bad. Excessive drinking, a sedentary lifestyle, no control over what I ate, seriously overweight and absolutely no idea how to deal with it.

As I enter my 56th year, I am committed to making some serious changes in my life. After more than 25 years of a lifestyle that could be described as anything but healthy, I was 80 pounds overweight and physically inactive. I knew that I was a strong candidate for a heart attack or a stroke, but it was still difficult for me to make a major lifestyle change. Or more accurately, I was having a hard time accepting what the changes were that I had to make.