The day before tomorrow

This is the day before tomorrow, the first day of training. I'm setting up this blog as attempt to hold myself accountable to myself, and to give myself some method to keep a record of this hopefully life-changing process. I also need some place to write down goals on a weekly basis.

I guess I'll start this by saying, I used to be an athlete, but I'm so far out of shape. My overall goal is to compete in an international/olympic length triathlon in the next year. For those of you who don't know what this includes, it combines a 1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, and 10 km run (which is ~ 1 mile swim, 24 mile bike, and 6 mile run for those of us who are conversionally challenged). I'm not sure which one I'm going to do yet, but I'll decide once the 2009 triathlon series is posted.

Goals of this week:
1. Go to the gym 5 days this week.
2. Keep record of every day that I go to the gym.
3. Allow myself one day of rest this week.
4. Clean the house, since my mom is coming to visit.
5. And, go to the gym before work. It opens at 5am.

I figure that my problem is that after I work all day, I'm exhausted. Besides, there is usually something to do after work that keeps me from working out. Going to the gym before work alleviates these problems. Yikes, that's early.

So that it for now... as today is the day before tomorrow. Wish me luck!!