I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions. This year is an exception. I am jumping on the bandwagon with the wife, Norman, and Brian to resolve to eat healthier starting today. It isn’t going to be easy, but I think it will be for the best. You can safely smack that cheeseburger out of my hands if you see it.

I am starting a food journal (to supplement my “training” journal) to see where my weaknesses are. I already have a good idea of course, but maybe I can find out where some extra faults are. I’ve always drank too much soda (though less now than I used to), so I plan on cutting it out all together. Beer is still on my diet, but whiskey is out. Cream cheese is a demon, and it needs to be exorcised. I am definitely keeping in mind to adjust my intake based on the amount of calories I burn though. I don’t want to end up passing out on the side of some back road highway in the middle of Washington.

The holiday’s didn’t ruin me thanks to my activity levels, so I just need to keep it up.

I fit in two great bike rides over the 4 day weekend. The first was some hill climbing in West Seattle. Chris, Joby and I have a little loop around the city that gets a bit over a thousand feet of climbing in an hour. I’m getting better at it, but it always wears me out. It is also nice to have a shorter ride that is easier to fit into a full schedule like I always seem to have on the weekends.

The second ride was with some of the SIR people again. I managed to wake up at 7:00am on New Years day (after having been up until about 1am), to ride out and catch a passenger only ferry to Port Townsend. We rode down to Bainbridge Island and took the ferry back to Seattle. It was about 100k and it seemed to take longer than I was expecting. We didn’t really get out on the road until 11 and the sun was already falling once we got on the ferry home. Still, it was beautiful weather and amazing views. I am excited to see more of Washington like this. These guys (and gals) seem to have ridden almost every road around Puget Sound. They are all quite breathtaking.

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