Resolute

I'm not one for new year's resolutions because, well, on New Years everyone makes these huge resolutions, and nobody can ever follow through. Throw "me" in there, aside from a couple years, and you've got it :). This year, though, I have (kind of) two.

1.) I'm most definitely going to ride the Dirty Kanza 200. I told myself the other night that I need to either will myself to doing this, or not do it, but not to go in it half-assed and ready to either suffer horribly or fail. So I willed myself TO do it, and that's how it's goona be. 200 miles. Gravel. Kansas. Sounds fun!

2.) I will not drink another beer (after midnight tonight) until I weigh 267 pounds. See, I like beer, I really do. I like GOOD beer which is probably the problem, 200 calories a pint isn't goona get you far on weight loss. Lately I've been drinking regularly, which is par for the course for me in the fall/winter. If I want to lose weight, and make #1 happen, well I just gotta put it aside. So no beer, not one drop, until I see 267 (not 267.5, not 267.25) on that scale. If I want a drink I'm going to allow myself two choices: Rum mixed with diet cola, or some sort of wine.

I dislike wine and rum.

Heavily.

(This is now a contest to see how fast I can lose the next 90 pounds..)

So this all adds together that the underlying theme is I really want to finish Kanza, and to do that I gotta drop some pounds. 2009 is all about that final push, I think. Maybe I'm finally ready.