First of many to come

The idea of maintaining a blog has been a little daunting to me for several reasons, first; my grammar and spelling skills are below par, and second; I am scared I will make a few posts, then become lazy not do anything else. So, lets just see how it goes, and ignore my terrible grammar.

The purpose of this blog is to get some accountability for the things I want to accomplish this coming year in cycling. I am getting really tired of setting goals and not following through with them, so I thought this would be a way for my friends and family to check up one me, give me words of encouragement and accountabilty . I got the idea from a guy in utah who started a blog called fatcyclist.com . He started the blog for the same reason, to shame himself into losing weight and becoming a better rider. Not only did it work for him, but he makes money and gets lots for free stuff for doing his blog.

I hope to do a post every friday about my weekly weight loss, and posts through out the week about the training and racing I am doing.

Through out my life I have had a lot of "hobbies", but cycling is far more than that for me. Since I got my first bike in 2005, it has really consumed me. I have riden around 8,000 miles on the road since then and really I want to take it to the next level this year, and become competive on a local level.