Happy New Year!

Yes, I'm still alive!  The Brazil project has gone live - we have many smaller future releases to go, but at least the largest part of the project is live.  It has been non-stop for the last few weeks/months so I've been avoiding any non-work related Internet activities.  Unfortunately, this blog has suffered.  My eating & exercise has also suffered. 

With a new year, there are new goals.  The first being that I need to get back on WW and start the new year on track.  I'm planning on hitting the 9:30 meeting on Friday.  I have several activity goals for this year:

• I'm planning on the Cinderella Classic on  April 5th.  It's a 65 mile bike ride in the Easy Bay.  To prepare for this, I will be joining Saturday conditioning rides.  It's been a long time since I've been on endurance ride!
• I really miss swimming, so I need to attend a swim at least twice a week.  Three if at all possible.  I'm allowing myself to enjoy things so if I need to miss a swim because of social activity that's ok, but it's not ok if I miss it because I need to work or am too tired.
• The other big thing I'm working on is a training plan for our bookclub.  We are planning to do the Rock 'n Roll in Las Vegas in November.  I've created several training plans for the group, but I'm going to work on trying to run.  We are planning on doing The Color Run in March and the Bay to Breakers in May as our first races.
• To be specific about the events that I would like to do:
• an endurance bike ride - Cinderella Classic - 65 miles - April 5th
• a sprint tri
• an olympic tri
• one half - Vegas?
• RUN a 5k - The Color Run - March 15th
• RUN a 10k - Bay to Breakers- May
• an open water swim - Alcatraz? Kona - swim the Ironman leg - February?
• To keep myself honest, my goal is to blog at least 5 times a week.  This will keep me honest about my workouts & weigh ins!
• My last goal, while not activity based, is to be easier/nicer to myself.  I'm not very good at that.

To help me get started on all of this I'm going to also do the Arm 30 Day Challenge.  I found it on  one of the blogs that I read.  I have no clue which one, so I can't give them credit - I got this from Pinterest!  Do you want to join me on this?

If anyone is interested, here are the training plans that I came up with.  They have been based on the Spark People Couch to 5k plans.  The walking (W) and walking/jogging (W/J) plans were only 5 weeks long, so I changed this around so they would be as long as their rookie running (R) plan.  All credit goes to Spark People on this - I just retyped it.

January
Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7
W: walk for 15 min W/J: walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 4 times (20 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 1 mile W/J: walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: : walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 4 times (20 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 1.5 mile W/J: walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 6 times (30 min total) R: : walk for 4 min, run for 1 min repeat 4 times (20 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 25 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 1.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 1.75 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 1.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 1.5 min repeat 6 times (31.5 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 30 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 2.25 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2.5 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 40 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 30 minutes W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 15 min W/J: : walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 6 times (30 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (25 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 30 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 2.25 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2.5 miles W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 2 min repeat 6 times (30 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest

February
Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7
W: walk for 40 min W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 2.5 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2.75 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 6 times (31 min total) R: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 40 min W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 3 min repeat 7 times (32 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 2.75 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 3 min repeat 7 times (32 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2.75 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 2.5 min repeat 5 times (27 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 3 min repeat 7 times (32 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 45 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (30 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 7 times (35 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 3 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 7 times (35 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 3 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (25 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 7 times (35 min total)	Rest
W: walk for 40 min W/J: walk for 3 min, run for 3 min repeat 5 times (30 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 8 times (40 min total)	Rest or cross-train	W: walk for 2.5 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 8 times (40 min total)	Rest or cross-train	Rest	W: walk for 2.75 miles W/J: walk for 2 min, run for 3 min repeat 6 times (30 min total) R: walk for 1 min, run for 4 min repeat 8 times (40 min total)	Rest

Here's to a great 2014!  Do  you have any specific goals for the year?

xoxo

Deb