It truly sucks to get old at times.

Weight 211.


I can run an 8 minute mile. I can do a triathlon. I cannot seem to get under 200 pounds. At 39 years old, I find that I cannot lose a damn pound unless I'm nearly starving myself.

So, I'm going to embarrass myself to do it. I'm going to start a regimented diet, and I'm considering some of the more known diets like Weightwatchers or NutriSystem.

Either way, every time I post I will be posting the current weight. My ideal goal for the short term is 12 pounds by December 31st. So that will level off to about 1.5 pounds of weight loss per week.

So if I post my weight and in the slim chance that someone actually reads this blog, I will have the incentive to lose a bit of weight because someone will call me on the carpet if I don't.

40 and fit is now my goal for 2008

I had been basically slowing down these last couple of weeks since the Triathlon. I have been working out maybe three times a week, and nothing really heavy involved.

What I do not want to happen is to lose the gains that I've made. But, to be honest, it's a tough thing to keep yourself motivated when all you want to to is "stay in shape". The holidays, work, family, can easily derail you.

For me, I think I found my set of goals for 2008. Now that I've been officially bitten by the Tri bug, I knew one of my goals was to do the NYC Triathlon. So much so, I found a cable recap of the event on SNY TV and watched it. Brenda groaned when she saw what was on, but I didn't care.

But what else? Well, I am a member of NY Roadrunners. and I've always wanted to do the Marathon, so there is goal number 2. And since I had a great time at the NYC Half Marathon why not put that on the list as well? I am starting to see a pattern.

So in short, there's my goals, but I don't want to schlub my way through each event. I want to do well. So the best effort includes best preparation, I decided to set the bar of each event as follows:

NYC TRI: 2:40
NYC Half Marathon: 1:50
NYC Marathon: 3:50

I will be doing other events like some of the local runs and maybe a few other Tri's, but those are my "must do" events. And to hit those times I need to really get in gear and get in shape for them.

Too much for my 40th year of existence? I know that the midlife crisis is when a guy is supposed to go out and get hair plugs, a sports car, and a new set of threads, but in those respective categories I have too much hair (back especially) I already have the sports car, but I could use some new clothes. So hopefully all this working out will allow me to get some new duds for work and home.

More on how I plan to do this in an upcoming post.