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Well I think that H would make an excellent "Viper", the leader of the flight school.  She could shape us all up.  Just a thought.

I don't like to be a cliche.  I want to be original.  So I decided against jumping off my butt on Jan 1 like everyone else and have continued to meld with the couch for another week now.

It has been over a month since my last run and getting close to a month since my last any other form of exercise and I have made a few observations:

The good news is that although I don't have a scale and can't say one way or another what my weight is, my clothes aren't any tighter.

On the other hand...my body is starting to hurt, not the good kind from exercise but the bad kind from atrophy, I am sleeping terrible, becoming a slacker around the house and in general becoming one with the downstairs couch.

Sometimes you just give in to your inner sloth and go for it.  That is one of the down sides of MN.  The cold just sucks the life out of you.  But then maybe that is the whole point, back in the day we needed that additional layer of fat to survive.  The thing is, I don't need additional fat now, I have a furnace.

Then again when you are in MN unless you have some crazy commitment, you need a club membership.  NEED.  And as we have had to cut back on things this year I had to cut that.  However, I started a part time job this week and although I wasn't planning to make any changes for a few months I told my husband I would be going to the nearest club as soon as possible.

I can't live like this.  I mean I know I did live like this for years.  Sluggish, tired and without much enthusiasm for life and getting out there and living it.  BUT, I have seen the other side.  I have tasted the good life and can never go back.

So here are a few things I am considering to keep me motivated this winter and throughout the year:

Cross Country Skiing.  I must admit that I have told hubby at times that when I see Cross Country Skiers I think they look crazy.  I mean people who do it REALLY love it.  But I talked with a neighbor who recently started doing it at a ski hill a couple miles from our house and became interested.  It is only $8 for rental and trail pass. That price excites and motivates me.  Plus my hubby grew up doing it with the family and I am always looking for something our whole family can do together that is healthy and active.  So potential future post about how that works out to come.

While races are fun they are also costly so I am not quite as ambitious as Goose limiting myself to just a couple things.

The spring Get In Gear race.  I had said I wanted to do the 10K but as my butt has spread across the couch I have been thinking the 5K might be a challenge.  However, if I do sign up for a new club membership in the next week I will go back to my 10K plan.  I don't expect to be able to run the whole thing by the end of March but I want to do something that will really challenge me at the beginning of the season and get me off the treadmill.

Sometime in August:  first annual Wolfe/Byrd/friend family duathlon.  Bike/run/bike.  Iceman and I will plan it, set it up and unless we can motivate the rest of our families, be the only participants.  Still it is happening!

Possibly considering the Irongirl duathlon here in the cities this summer.  Not making full commitment at this point but I do want to keep up my triathlon body a little.

Biking:  More family bike rides, something we enjoyed last summer.  Looking to borrow or buy a ride behind for Isabelle so she can join the fun and we can loose the big parachute on wheels.

I really miss my body pump class and my nice toned arms, legs and abs.  I am not sure I will be re-joining the Y since I have found the cut rate clubs also have treadmills for half the price.  If the new club doesn't have something similar I will be forced to make up my own routine.  At least I have learned a lot from body pump.

My hubby has full access to a wonderful workout room at the fire department and I will be challenging him this year to use it.  Another competitor in the family duathlon this summer.

That should be enough to keep me entertained and in shape.

ICEMAN---What news from the postpartum ward?

Maverick Out.