About Me

Updated 01/03/2014

Christmas 2010 - 310lbs

My name is Jake, I am 26 29 years old and live in Mesa St. Johns, AZ with my wife and two FOUR kids.  We are expecting our third child in July NO MORE KIDS and very excited.  I work in Scottsdale St. Johns behind a desk connected to a phone.  With that said I really like my job and the people I work with and for. 



I am working on getting several areas of my life balanced.  The main focus of this site is my journey becoming healthy through cycling.  I have always enjoyed riding bikes from the time I was a child and am now wanting to take it to a new level and fall in love with cycling. 

This all came to the surface after receiving bad news during a physical with my primary physician.  The doctor looked at me and said "you're fat".  It was not the first I had heard this but he supported his claim with some alarming test results.  I am not going to go into a lot of the details but let's just say it has gotten me motivated. 

05/24/2011 - 169lbs

Just a few weeks after the test results were delivered I bought a bike (March 2011) and have been doing much better but still have a long way to go. 

The picture above was me at Christmas 2010 - I am still wondering what made me think it was funny or a good idea to wear a red union suit.  I was at about 310 pounds and had little to no physical activity in my routine.  To the left is me today (05/24/2011).  I am still overweight but I am making a ton of progress.  I have lost nearly 40 pounds and have more than 500 miles in my ride log. UPDATE: I logged about 1,000, dropped more weight, and then fell off the horse.  I have gone back to old lazy habits and put all the weight back on and am starting at nearly ground zero (01/03/2014 - 298lbs)

I hope that you enjoy the site and visit often.