DAY ONE - BACK IN THE GYM

Finally got my fat ass back in the gym after taking a week off to get over this pain in the ass cold I have been fighting since last Sunday. Took it pretty easy got in 75 minutes on the stair master at a mid level. One steadily ever- increasing hill. Up the step resistance every 3 minutes for 42 minutes and then did the same every two minutes until I finished the machine limit of 63 minutes and then cooled down for 10 minutes.
     The goals for the coming year (before I reach the ripe old, AARP qualified, age of 50) are pretty simple. Get to the gym at least 5 days, and hopefully 6 days, a week for at least one hour. This will hopefully grow to 2-3 hours in the next couple of months. In addition to the gym I will be on the bike using my indoor trainer (I am a cold-weenie) in front of the tv with surround sound and a DVD player.
    Hopefully these workout goals will lead to the completion of further achievement related goals. In no particular order:
     1. Ride at least one century
     2. Run a 5K
     3. Run a 10K
     4. Run a Half-marathon (definitely late in the year)
     5. Ride the Road to the Sun in Glacier National Park, Montana
     6. Weigh under 220 lbs (hopefully by summer, that gives me 6 months to achieve this goal)
     7. Continue weight loss to be below 200lbs (time line is the end of August, 9 months to lose 85 lbs)
              That is only 9 lbs a month or about two pounds per week so it should be doable
   
That's enough for now, might add more at a later date as things look more doable & achievable. If some goals are reached earlier we will add more goals to keep striving to achieve
    I have not placed any time related runs or rides, that is not the goal. The goal is to finish each of these goals not win the races. I will never reach the times I have run in the past . Also when I have strove for time related goals before I become a little workout obsessed and end up getting hurt and having to back off  from my workouts.
     I know that everything will not go perfect so that is why I have stretched this out over a long period of time. Work will get in the way, life will get in the way, as well as injuries and such. So I will keep going one day at a time and see where it gets me. Follow along and see how it goes. Thanks