September 1, 2012
270,900 pushups completed
829,100 pushups to go
3,923 pushups ahead of schedule
Welcome back! It has been a while since I updated my blog. It's actually an embarassing story... I've been updating a website called ThunderJonathan.com the last few months, by accident. Don't.... try and find it, it's not there anymore. I fell down a well and took on a British accent and affectation for a few months, a la "Chaz" in Charles in Charge, "Vic Ferrari" on Taxi, etc. Instead of push ups I started referring to them as "jolly good knock downers" and craving Earl Grey tea around 3 o'clock. Stopped brushing my teeth entirely. Rode a bicycle with a HUGE front wheel. It really happened, I swear. It's science. Luckily, I got kicked by a mule and regained my real personality.
OK. I can tell you are not buying the "hit my head and thought I was British" routine. I can't really come up with a good excuse as to why it's been so long since I updated the blog. So I came up with six terrible ones:
6. Couldn't find my computer.
5. I was Ryan Lochte's training partner for the summer. But I missed the Olympics... how'd that turn out?
4. Didn't think anybody cared (but the McLaughlin Family, Snipes Family, Cronan Family and Conant family have proved me wrong on that front by donating to Nothing But Nets. You can too: see below).
3. Drunk. Just drunk as a skunk the entire summer
2. Celebrity deaths happen in threes, and the deaths of both Ron Palillo (Arnold Horshack) and Robert Hegyes (Juan Epstein) from "Welcome Back Kotter" made me reallly scared to check my computer for fear that Lawrence Hilton Jacobs (Freddie BoomBoom Washington) was next. (No fear for John Travolta: he is and always has been a robot).
1. Thought the internet was closed during the summer.
So the pushups are going well. I am still almost 4,000 ahead of schedule even though I had a severe groin injury this summer and had to stop all physical activity for two weeks.
Click: Gr-Gr-Gr Groin Injury
So I fell behind on my pace a little but now I'm back. Also in past blog entries I've talked about doing triathlons over the summer. I did only one triathlon this summer: and I did it alone. What a bummer. My two PIC's in the triathlon world, AndyV and Swadley, decided that they don't want to do triathlons any more. They really aren't that fun to do alone. (between you and me, they've gotten FAAAAT! Please give them a hard time next time you see them. They need these triathlons as much as I do). So I've just been doing the pushups and running. Would love to get back into triathlons though so if anyone wants to do a triathlon with Thunder John, just let me know.
You know who else doesn't do triathlons? The millions of kids in Africa in danger of contracting malaria. We can help them by donating to my charity, Nothing but Nets. So far we have raised almost $500; I'm hoping you can find it in your heart to donate as little as $10 to buy one net. Take that $10 you were planning on going to see "The Expendables 2: Even More Expendable" with and donate it to Nothing But Nets instead. You can always catch E2 on Netflix:
Click to Join Thunder John's Nothing But Nets Team
Peace,
Thunder John
"Bringin the thunder, Packin the pain, Loaded with pushups - makin' it RAIN!"
Saturday, September 1, 2012
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