Well, its official.  The new website is up and running 100%.  This is over a month or 2 coming so I am excited and relieved that it is finally here.  All the url’s now redirect you to the correct spot but feel free to update all your bookmarks.  If any of you are tooling around the site and any link doesn’t work, let me know.  I was doing all this nonsense late last night so there might be an error somewhere on the site, but lets hope not..

Well, its been done.  The I finally got around to updating the site to the new theme and tomorrow morning I will be working on the new name.  From now on, the site will be commonly known as outdooraddict.org.  I thought the new name for the site was quite fitting for my life style.  I decided to change everything and make the new name because typing in my full name seemed like such a pain.  Now there will be a lot less key strokes for all.  I am keeping the old url around and it will automatically redirect you toward the new name, but really, it will be just as easy to type in the new stuff.

I like the new theme.  It took me quite some time to figure out exactly which one to use.  I must have looked for more than a thousand of them until I found this one.  I like it, for now.  I am sure at some point I will get sick of it as well, but until then, I will stick with this one.

There has been a lack of postings by me lately.  I am sorry.  It is a problem we are working on here at headquarters.  I will try not to let it happen again..

I forgot to mention that the other night I added the 24 hour race pictures.  Check em out when you get a chance.  Some of them are good.  I must say I like the bags under my eyes on this one.  It was taken at about 6am as the sun was coming up and we had been racing for about 18 hours, 8 or so of which I have been pedaling a bike and not sleeping the other 10.

Today started off Week 1, Day 1 (W1D1) of Hal Higdon’s 1/2 Marathon Training and today called for some strength and stretching. For the strength part, I went for a 16 mile bike ride and pushed it on the ride. Probably not the smartest thing to do. I must admit, my legs are still a little sore from my warm up run the other day, so I thought that a nice easy road ride would calm the legs down and work out all the soreness. I don’t think I was 1 mile into it before I had it in the big ring pushing hard gears. So much for the easy spin. After I got home, ate and took the dog for a 3 mile walk into town. I got the nike+ipod calibrated and it was pretty much spot on, .02 off for every 2 miles, so I am decently happy with its results especially since there are so many variables that could cause that to be different than the GPS signal I was receiving. Tomorrow calls for the first run of the training and it is a 3 miler. I am actually looking forward to it. New toys will do that.

On the website change over news, the name is ready to go, but the theme I chose for it is being a little difficult so it might be a day or so until it “officially” changed over. I wanted it to be done today, but with so much that needs to be done to it and lack of free time, it is delayed, and I can live with that.

I just updated the Goals page, and I must say, I am looking rather pathetic at this point in terms of my goals.  I am about 7 pounds behind and also about 300 miles behind on my bike.  I’m not concerned.  For the past 2 weeks, I was unable to ride.  That keeps the weight on and the milage down.  At this point, I feel that I can ride on the bike again with a little strain on my back, so I’m going to grit my teeth and ride.  Now, if the weather would work with me.  It isn’t, so back onto the trainer again.  Time to take it to the next level for the next couple of weeks or so.  I think I can take the weight off and break even over the next 2 or 3 weeks or so, and once the weather comes around, I will make it up on the milage.  I’m not concerned.

I updated the goals page and I am feeling pretty good about what I see.  I am winning the milage with the bike, and I am .2 of a pound below my target weight.  Can’t complain about that.  The only problem is that I have to travel this weekend and that means a 130 mile drive each way to Boston.  That plus the fact I won’t be able to ride while in Minnesota, is going to hurt the mileage competition.  I am going to try and run a little on a treadmill, but the 10ish miles I run won’t help much, but it will help with the weight loss.  That is the good but bad thing about traveling on company dime, all the food.  We eat out every night at a Ruby Tuesday type of place, not that there is anything wrong with that type of restaurants.  I really do enjoy their food, but we tend to eat a lot of fries and such.  Its quite the American way.  This year of traveling I will need to be better about what I eat.

I just updated the goals page.  Weight loss is right on target, but the milage is a tad off.  I do well during the week with commuting and riding at night, but this weekend Kelly and I went skiing.  Which was one heck of a fun time, but it was a 90 mile drive round trip.  That is what kills me.  So I am down about 85 miles, so that will certainly take a little while to over come.  I guess I will really need to add more miles everyday to the 6 mile commute.