Hey guess what- I actually have something remotely interesting to write about. Ok, here we go, I am just going to make this a pretty long entry and get a bunch of stuff up to date.
January 2-6 Terrible stomach flu, I felt the worst I have ever, ever, ever. Hardcore chills, just could not get warm, and then like moments later, I would break out in the worst sweat ever. Just the worst. One the second, I came home from work at 2, and went to bed, and woke up the next morning.
January 8-19- I start off with a cold, and then my son gets pnumonia, and then my cold gets worse, just a 2 week period where it took like all my wife and I had to survive.
Nows for the fun part- January 22- Tri training season started again, and this time I am a little smarter, a little cooler.
Monday I lifted weights, Tuesday did an elliptical (lots of calorie burn, for minimal knee wear) Wednesday did a spinning bike (good cardio, minimal knee wear) Thursday- Bike again, Friday lifted, and then here is the cool part where I get to talk about something cool (Department of Redundency Department).
Ok, way back in the last week of 06, my wife on another board, on their classifieds saw someone was selling a Garmin Forerunner 201, and thought nothing of it, until I was drooling over one in the store like a week later. She told me that someone had one on xxxxxxxxx.com (not the real site, and not sure if they merit a plug) and they were selling it for $60. These things are normally 150-160. So when we got home, my wife checked the board, and the lady had marked it down to $30! So we snagged it.
Now a little info on what this gizmo is. Its basically a GPS unit that is the size of a huge watch. You wear it on your wrist as you run, and it tracks you speed, distance, calories burned (based on the weight you put in it) and then when you dock it to your computer, it maps your run, and keeps a training log, so you can see your improvement. So anyway, I went out and used this guy for the first time on Saturday. Its a lot of fun. The only thing I wish this one had on it the slightly better model has is a built in heart rate monitor. But to no avail, so on Saturday, (it was 30 degrees or so) I went out in jogging pants, a sweatshirt, sock hat, Ipod on my right upper arm, Garmin on my right wrist, heart rate monitor on my chest, and the read out unit on my left wrist. Its techno geek jogging (great for those with ADD).
I am using spark and keeping my calories between 2000 and 2500 a day, and trying to burn 1300-1500 cals a week in cardio (hopefully this can increase soon), and lift a couple of times a week, for now. Its a good slow and steady prep towards my training goals. I am doing a lot of base cardio right now, and hoping it not only helps me condition my lungs but also drop some pounds.
Last, my race goals for this upcoming season are this - run 1 5k, 1 10 k, and 1 sprint tri.
Recreationally, I hope to do a 100 mile bike ride this summer as well.
And since these are new goals, and a new year, I am going to copy and paste this entry into a new diary for 07.
have fun at the gym and yay for that voice in the back of your head... listen to it -and pay attention (I usually have to tell my voices to shut up because they usualy want me to wreak havoc and create wanton destruction 
