I made it five days straight with the workout routine. A mixture of the bike and weights throughout the week. Riding about 40 miles in my first five days seems pretty good. Sadly, I am the kind of person that needs to keep at something and I’m slightly worried that not being able to do anything tonight or tomorrow we’ll make it hard to start up again. In the past, I worked out seven days a week but back then I had something to prove and nothing better to do. This time around I’m just trying to get back to where I was at and maintain, so seven days a week seems kind of like over kill. Maybe for the first month or two I’ll try doing six days a week to get me where I want to be and then we’ll see. My goal was 16 lbs in five weeks (by Mayhem Fest) to start with and I’m already a 1/4 of the way there after week one. Then I’ll push for another 10 lbs or so but at some point the muscle will start pushing the weight back up. The one thing I noticed, working out tends to make me feel better in general even though it probably has had little effect on me at this point. I get back into the watch what you eat, how much you eat and what you drink mode. Although, I’m guessing now that the weekend has come I’ll have to really cut back on the food because beer has a lot of calories. Although… the beer I drink has much less calories than a regular pop, so it’s a healthy choice!

Luckily I think my golf game tomorrow will be quite an upper body work out for me. I have about 14 clubs in my bag and I may end up chucking them all into the lake before it is all said and done. I remember one of Rob’s posts about what we classify as sports and I decided I’d add to it. I am required to wear a collared dress shirt and no blue jeans. I haven’t owned a pair of blue jeans in 10 years so I’m okay there. If golf if a sport, why are you required to dress up? Is there any other sport out there that requires dress clothes during the activity part? Maybe they should start playing baseball in slacks and dress shirt… that would be amusing.

Hope everyone has a good weekend… I’ll be in Iowa and home on Sunday. Hopefully no rivers overflow and sweep us down the rivers.