Hey all…this is my first post on the blog and I am using it as nothing more than a place marker and to say hello.  That is me and my wife Petra last year around X-Mas time.

I am excited to share my thoughts and journey with the world and I hope I can meet a lot of like minded people who are looking to accomplish the same things that we are trying to accomplish.

I am a firm believer in setting goals and making them public as I think that will keep you more honest than those silent goals that nobody else knows about.  Somehow they always seem to have more flexibility to them.

Here’s a FEW of my goals that range from the short term to the long term.  I may add to these over the next few months as I develop a more complete picture of where and how I want to go.

My Goals:

My primary goal is to lose weight.  As rapidly as I can and still remain healthy.  I weigh in at 289 lbs as I write this which means I have lost about 37 lbs so far, a good start but not even close to what I have planned. Too much southern cooking combined with lethargy has made me fat, but I am fixing that.  Here are some of my short term goals:

• Weigh 250lbs by March 15th, 2009.  Aggressive but achievable.
• Weigh 200 lbs by June 15th, 2009.  Again aggressive….but so am I.
• Ride a 30 mile group ride without being “dropped” by April 15th, 2009.  I can finish 30 now but not without being dropped like a hot potato.
• Complete at least one “century” ride (100 miles) by end of July 2009.

As I said, far more to come but these are goals that I had already set for myself.  I am eyeballing a triathlon in there somewhere next summer but right now I simply cannot run without crushing my knees and ankles into powder so that goal will have to wait a bit.

These are my goals….how about yours?  You do set them right?