227.8

What is up with that number? 2 weeks in a row. I feel better as in being in better shape but the flippin pounds are still there. I'd be happy if I lost 2-3 lbs a week but that isn't happening. I am not giving up though. I want to be here for a while. I want to have the energy to play with my kids for years and years to come. I have more energy now than I did a month ago! That is one of my goals. I know I am healthier and that is goal numero UNO!

Didn't go to the gym yesterday but I did today and that makes 3 times this week and the plan is to go 2 more times this week.

Today I got to 14 miles again. I increased the level of my workout from level four on the machine to level 5. I was on the machine for 95 minutes. I know that the amount of time you work out has a direct relation to getting more of the good cholesterol the HDL. I am talking to Carley and said I don't want to step on a scale for another month. That would be April 4th. She says that is crazy. The scale is always there tempting me but every time I step on it I get frustrated. That is why I am going to try and skip one month of weighing in and see where I am at that time. Right now I am 227.8 and in those 4 weeks I hope to get to 212 or lower.

I have the relay triathlon on April 24th where I am running the 5k at the end. I hope I can survive it. I know I can go 5k but my shins are always killing me when I run so I need tips and pointers on how not to get shin splints when I run.

I am hoping to get ready to do a full sprint triathlon on my own. But it is sad that I am 36 yrs old and can barely doggy paddle. There is a tri that sounds fun in Layton this summer. You swim then bike then run and then you do all 3 again. I might look to do that one. You can do that as a team of 2 as well. Being that I am swimming challenged maybe I can find a Duathlon which is biking then running.

I also want to do the midnight bike ride on Antelope Island again this year and I hope to be hydrated enough this time that I won't cramp up 1 mile from the finish.

This is the year of a fitter and more active Grayson. Hope you can do the same for yourself this year. But I am the author and the sole reader of this blog so when I say I hope you can do the same I am encouraging myself.

14 and 1,400

14 miles on the eliptical today. I went for an hour then got off and did some weights. My weights are not intense. I have had shoulder problems in the past so I am trying to do the same exercises that I had to do in the past for physical therapy. The next 1/2 hour on the machine I bumped it up from level 4 to level 5 and I also went faster and did 6.5 minute miles.

I hit 1,400 calories burned at the gym today. I'll work out tomorrow and then we'll find out if any of this is worth it. Once we have health insurance again I will be going in to get my cholesterol checked. I want to have my total cholesterol to hdl ratio be under 5. I know that the longer that I exercise the better this ratio will be.

If you have read this you know I am planning on doing the running portion of a relay triathlon. I hope to be in good enough shape to do an entire triathlon by the end of the summer. Good luck self! I hope to inspire Carley to do a 5k or 2 this year too.