New year, fresh start

Hit the start button this morning. Began with getting out of bed early (0630) instead of "whenever". Trundle off to the gym, wondering "why?".

Nice easy 3 mph pace for a 20 min walk. Sort of jumping into the conservative run program around week three or something. Felt pretty good, no stress really. Found myself wanting to push it up to 4 mph, but resisted to avoid burnout.

Then my first weight training in over 13 years. Only one set of each, except bench press. Just basically trying to narrow in one the weights to use for each exercise. Dominique, my LA Weight Loss counselor, also happens to be a personal trainer/aerobics instructor. She says to aim for 6-8 reps per set because triathletes require strength more than definition. She says the definition will come from all the weight I'll lose from the cardio stuff.

I had gotten down to 298 back in October, but weighted in today at 324. Time to move. All in all, I'm happy with the start I made today. Oh, Ron, my e-mail is being difficult and won't e-mail the WordPerfect workout calendar right now. I'll try to send it when I figure out why not. In the meantime, I'm using the calendar/logs here.