Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Thanks:)

While everyone awaits the unveailing of the official Gym Animus website, I would like to say thank you to my friend, Vinay, who is building the website for me in his spare time. He is working endless hours to build the site, on top of his already busy life. He certainly has a lifetime "membership" to Gym Animus and all of its benefits.


Vinay is one of those racing snakes who moves like a man possessed across the country. He is an extremely fast runner, with an average 5k time that could easily provide him with a salary.
However, Vinay wasn't always a great athlete. He joined track in his freshmen year of high school, just for something to do. Well, he turned out to be a horrible runner. The coach put him in the 2-mile race, which was where all the "bad" runners went. Vinay wasn't very good at that either. Apparently, that pissed him off a little bit. During the summer between 9th and 10th grade, Vinay ran like a beast, logging an average of 10 miles per day, six days per week. He came back in the fall and joined the cross country team. Vinay started winning races, and not only marginal wins either. He regularly recorded sub-15:00 5k's, beating his opponents by more than 2 minutes sometimes. This was all at the tender, ripe age of 16 years old. The kid is a phenom.
Unfortunately, Vinay has given up competitive running since then, putting his physical energies into weightlifting and bodybuilding. He isn't at a loss in that arena either. Just the other day, at 140 pounds, Vinay put up 250 for 4 on the bench press. He can crank out a solid 25 pullups without breathing heavy, and he's got a front lever that scares people at his gym. He only weighs 140, but looks like he's approaching 175. He's also got a chest that, as Pavel says, you could stand a glass on. Vinay lives and works in Washington D.C.. He works for Lockheed Martin, writing computer programs for the construction of nuclear submarines. WOW. Keep it up Vinay, you are an inspiration to all of us.

1 comment:

Persevere said...

he's cute too ;)

<3 Danny Boy