The countdown

It's pretty revolting to think I used to be 140lbs. Most people wouldn't care about a few pounds, but when you used to wiegh 140lbs, you start thinkging in percent. For example: a 200lb man could gain 20lbs and it would be 10% of his original weight, but if a 140lb man does that, you're talking about 14%. To keep up, the 200lb man would have to gain 28lbs. See? Or has the fat gone to my head?

Well, that's why there is now a countdown. A countdown to skinniness. A countdown, back down, to 145 (a good weight for me). Like all good countdowns there must be a starting point, and that point is my current (blubbery) weight. So, the countdown begins today at 157.

Tick, tick ...

The bike has been named

…and she shall be known as Gisele.
Her eponym being, of course, Gisele Bundchen.

Good way to spend good money

That baby on the left...that's my new toy. She is a 2006 LeMond Tourmalet. She doesn't have a name yet. So i'm open to suggestions. Feel free to leave one via comments.

Why did I get her? Well, many reasons. First, I've been wanting a bike for months now. I need to move into the city limits (a requirement of my amazing new job). And finally, it's going to be my cross training. I've gone off beofre about how I can't stand the stationary bikes at health clubs. Nothing is more boring than pedaling your ass off and not going anywhere. At least with running you move, you go from point A to point B. Ahhh running. I havent done a whole lot of that lately, and I'm missing it. My ankle has been aching a lot lately; I'm chalking that up to the weather in Chicago.

Mad props to my buddy KM. She got engaged recently. Way to go KM! Nothing but love for ya!

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