Check out this very serious picture of my physique. I am ready to tear apart anyone who dares to race me!!!…. anyone
You ready?
what are the sunglasses for?
You’re too skinny. Though on the bright side, we’d likely eat you last if our plane crashed in the Andes.
Also, who still owns an actual camera?
I can’t see your legs ACE!!..duhhh, the most important part in racing a mile.
Sweep been cuttin as well. Grabbed this one off his insta.
Lol
Thats my cycling outfit - my phone was in my blowout kit zipped up already. I took the pic with my Nikon before heading out.
I’m averaging 176lbs right now and in the past 4 days, I’ve consumed over 20,000 calories. Sunday and Monday were rest days and I still didn’t gain weight with that amount of calories. Everywhere I go I get looks or eyebrows or questions, no matter if it is McDonalds or Whole Foods or the Gym or wherever, but my current activities at these places always prompts questions about everything. On Saturday I went to McDonalds on my 47mi bike ride as I was hungry. It was McDonalds though. So what am I going to order? I ordered 5 salads and 6 bacon and egg patties. I figured it would be too complicated for them to realize the words coming out of my mouth if I just requested the bacon/egg, so I just tossed 6 biscuits. Every McDonalds worker in that place had their eyes on me and my table. This is what I have to deal with on a daily basis. That McDonalds in Ocoee, TN actually gave me a complimentary McFrappe or whatever. Carmel. I didn’t want it but the girl was so happy to give it to me that I had to at least sip it to not be a DB and say ‘this is way too much sugar’ or something and it actually went well with some of the bacon pieces at the end of the meal. I tossed it 3/4 full though when she wasn’t looking. One of my friends, Tucker, got to camping at about 3:30pm on Saturday. During the next 6 hours or so, I ate, constantly. He even started commenting on it. He was like ‘dude, you’ve been eating this whole time’. I ate straight through dinner (2 plates of lowcountry boil - shrimp - corn - potatoes) and kept going until bed. To eat 5500 or 6000 calories in a day is not something that one just enjoys, there is much preparation and order to it, not to mention the water involved. I mean it is pretty good to eat, but your mindset starts to revolve around how much food you have, how much you need, how hard your effort is going to be tomorrow, how many calories that will take, etc. Do you know how much water it takes to process 5000 calories? A lot. So I always have to have water around me and use several different types of hydration methods (tea, water, la croix, etc) to get the job done. Because, I always need to be drinking. I think my piss literally turns yellow faster than before. My body just goes through water. The sheer number of cycles of digestion and water that I go through in a daily basis is mind boggling. If I’m around any close friend for more than 4 hours, my dietary needs start to come into play. Especially as I am not intermittent fasting. When I was intermittent fasting, I could hold out for a long time if I had lots of water. I was at my best friend’s birthday party last month when suddenly I had to go as I just needed calories immediately. She was like check my fridge - you can have anything, but all she had was frozen pizzas, stouffers lasagna, and other random stuff like that along with orange juice and really nothing that I could have, except the eggs. I was like yo, Lael - what about those eggs? She had 8 and I needed at least 6. She is married with a husband and this is their food for the week too. She said she could spare 4, and I was like I really need 6. I wasn’t trying to be a DB or anything and she knew it, so she pretty much grabbed all the veggies she had in the fridge and 6 eggs and made me an omelet (shes the best). And 2 coffees. I’m pretty high maintenance on this diet. I have to break social plans because of it at times like this and people think I’m joking or something when I say I have to leave to eat. The guy today thought I was joking at Firehouse Subs when I ordered 4 full sized grilled chicken salads and 2 side salads. At first, he rang up the order and it was like $15 and I was like … ummm did you get those 4 grilled chicken salads? He was kind of nerdy and looked at me like I was an alien. He was like ‘oh ok this is a to-go order’ - I said ‘no, for here, thanks’. Then he looks at me again like my entire body is on fire and says - ‘are you serious’. Me - ‘yes I’m serious, oil on the side please, thanks’. Then the whole time I’m eating all I hear is chatter about how much I’m eating or ‘this whiteboy has an appetite’ or crap like that nearly everywhere I go. Waffle house or IHOP when I need eggs just gets everybody talking. Every. Single. Day. And its not like I go to these places as part of any plan. These are calories that I need because I didn’t plan appropriately or didn’t have time to make a 1200 cal shake (berry/Vega/almond butter). I had to go eat those salads and chicken today after the gym because I started to calorie crash and feel delirious and even brought something like 1500 calories (RX bars, GU packets, Gatorade) that I just killed hardcore. Like eating frantically at times on my mat after 8 count bodybuilders because I can feel that my body is not tapping into its stores fast enough and I need something quick to continue to fuel my calorie burn rate. I’ve consumed a good amount of just Bars, Electrolytes, and GU this past 48 hours (this is like extra capacity on top of meals). The influx in these additional components to my regiment has made me start doing an extra trip to the store or Dicks at night, which is a pain in the ass. I need to start shipping these boxes to my house and save some money doing it, but am trying to get some idea how how fast I’m going through these bars. 
I got this brace in the mail tonight and it is really good.
It was only $8.99. Crazy.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073WC75XF/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
On Sunday night I was so hungry because I was in Cherokee, NC most of the day playing the $250 tourney at Harrah’s. I tried to get something to eat there, but they had nothing. There was a Ruth’s Chris steakhouse which looked very appealing, but I could not imagine how much I would drop in there. I’d probably get three steaks or something. So I decided to drive around for a while and went over to Ashville, NC to sleep and about crashed my car when I saw an all you can eat Japanese buffet. I had like 45 minutes until they closed and I just crushed that place. It was really good. They had fresh fruit and really good seaweed salad. I didn’t touch the sushi because of the rice, but they had other salmon that was good that I tried to taste on one plate and then got about a pound on the next. Sunday night, I didn’t stop by the store because I really felt full that night. But then 11pm hit or so and I was damn starving. Sure enough, Asheville doesn’t have seamless or anything. They had nothing. Fuck. I went through every single morsel of food that I had from camping. I was so hungry Sunday night. I figured I’d set an alarm for 6am to wake up for the buffet and hit it twice. I was pretty beat so only hit the buffet once, pretty hard. I had 10 eggs or so and 3-4 sausage patties and a banana and apple. I’ve just been going through a lot of eggs lately. I just left the hotel and breakfast and had another hunger pang and stopped at Starbucks and got 4 of those egg bites (2 orders - bacon), with a latte or something. This held me over for an hour or two. Maybe I just wanted the latte. I don’t know. I like those egg bites though. I think they are frozen and microwaved or whatever, but they aren’t too bad.
ACE, just wanted to let you know I do read all these post. Don’t usually say much… what is there to say! You pretty much have the “epic” theme nailed down no matter what you do.
How the f did i not know this thread exsited… Need to get a pic of my abs on here.
lol thanks KMD
The Flyknit racers are such a good training shoe for me that I got another pair, for my third pair of flyknits so far (Flyknit Mariah, Flyknit Racer, Flyknit Racer).
This is the color I just picked out and had shipped. These shoes are extremely hard to get a hold of. I don’t know if they don’t make them anymore or they are discontinued, but some colors are expensive. 
They are by far the best jump rope shoe I have had. They are very stable in the front and the sole is slightly more rigid than the Mariahs, which I like. I can pick up heavy dumbbells in these and they still feel ok.
‘blue gecko’ is sick 
Ace ,what happened to your med school plans bro ?
I did neuroscience research for most of 2016 and initially was looking at MD/PhD in Psychiatry/Neuroscience and then was leaning towards just the MD at the end of the year.
I took two 700 level classes in neuroscience that year as well, but was experiencing some difficulty studying for the MCAT without taking some of the prerequisites. It looked like I would have to do a post bacc program and researched the programs and found Columbia to be the best fit for me.
It didn’t look like I would have trouble getting in, but it was going to take 18 months and 200K or so to complete that program. Not only that, but some people get halfway through the program and get a C in a class or worse, disqualifying them from linkages, which is the best part of that program (guarantees to med school admission if you get ~3.7). I didn’t really want to pay for all those classes so got an interview in financial operations at Columbia to work there and get free classes and take them at night. I specifically applied to a role I was overqualified for and I thought I was going to get it. But, in the interview at Columbia, the director of HR said she thought I would be a good fit, but ended up hiring an internal candidate.
I think between the post bacc and med school it was going to cost me about $500K. That was a lot of financial risk for me so put it on hold for a while.
I’m still very interested in the field, but might go down that road when I casually can just throw a few hundred grand at some classes and get a postbacc/MD.
Overall it was a good experiencing venturing into that field, but neuroscience research is incredibly slow and psychiatry is a great field but like nutritionists, if you go through all that training and people don’t follow what you say, it can be frustrating. So it all comes down to the people you help when they choose to help themselves in that field.
In the end, it made me love business/finance/entrepreneurship all the more. Business is quick and messy at times, but results happen with the right strategy and execution.
^Also, the MD/PhD is free. So that’s a big incentive. I got a long email from the Stanford MD/PhD dean about why not to do the program and to just go for the MD at my age. Initially I didn’t see his logic, but think he was right. I could do neuroscience research even without the PhD. But, free is alluring… MD/PhD - 8 years MD - 4 years
Is anyone else attending the AF meetup on the night of Sunday Sept. 9th in NYC? Anyone else running the race (igor/ohai/CFABB/BS/CSK)? Ohai can you at least come to one meetup. We know you are not Bill Gates… seriously bro … haha