February 2010 Archives

So I think I got one bike in along with along with last night's indoor triathlon in the last two weeks. Not quite the every day effort that I was hoping for. Add to that the fact that I'm gaining weight faster than my daughter. I could make lots of excuses, but I won't. I need to plan my day better, get to bed earlier and not push the snooze button in the morning. I'm giving myself until the end of February to get into a rhythm and then we'll see what March brings.

In other news, Team Evotri should have some big announcements in the near future. JP is interviewing some awesome pros for the website and Stu has been doing the same on the Simply Stu podcast. We've been planning for our team race at the Rev3 Cedar Point races along with WIBA 2010. Note the new weekend of July 9-11, 2010 and watch for all the news in April.

What with all the celebrating, eating and drinking over the holidays, it's too easy to get carried away with setting crazy resolutions in January. Plus, with the arrival of Elsa Grace, who knew what kind of time there would be? Would there even be time to train? Would I want to? All good questions that I put off for a month until we got into a more "normal"¹ schedule.

Now that Elsa's eight(!) weeks old. we're getting closer to a normal schedule, and since a year (Okay, 11 months) is too long to commit to, I decided to use month-long chunks. It's also handy that February is the shortest month -- not that I'm afraid of commitment or anything. So for February, since I need to get back to active movements, I've committed to doing something active² every day.

Thus far, I'm two for two. Woot! I got a short bike ride in Monday and a nice run in the snow Tuesday morning. (And yes, I ran because it was snowing, not in spite of it.) With any luck, I hope to make it 28 for 28. I'll try to keep some updates logged here, but you can always follow me on Twitter, too.

¹ What's normal anyways?

² Active can be any swim, bike, or run. It can also be breaking out the Wii Fit Plus, or basketball, or walks with my family.