Old, Fat, and Bald

Ten years ago....

I weighed 167 pounds,

I had curly hair that reached my forehead,

My fastest five mile time was eight minutes faster than what I could run today. My 5k time was four minutes faster, and I was probably a full minute faster in the mile.

Father time has not been kind to me over the past 520 weeks. Or, in the interest in accountability, I have not been kind to myself.

If you are wondering why I bring all this up, it's because my college's ten-year reunion is this weekend.

I guess I'll go there and show the party people of the the Grinnell College class of 1994 that Mike's Theorem is in full effect. My job and love life kick ass and my body is in the shitter.

I was poking around the Grinnell website, after I found information about my reunion, and found this picture:



Image from Grinnell Cross Country


That freakishly skinny guy on the right with all that black hair is indeed me. I think that picture is from my freshman year when I was 18 or 19. Based on that picture, I don't know if anyone will recognize me at reunion. Mercifully, I will NOT show up wearing a cross country singlet. That would not be a pretty sight.