Week 2 - Happy Birthday to ME!!!

Yes, today is my birthday.  To celebrate it and also to help me with my goal of getting back in shape via triathlon I decided to get a new road bike.  And it's a beauty!  A 2011 Specialized Allez Elite Compact, which is aluminum with a carbon fork.  My old bike was a steel chromium alloy bike with the shifters down low on the frame.  This bike has the new style shifters on the brake handles and it much lighter.  Here's a picture I found on the web.

I also got some Look pedals, bike shoes, cyclometer, Polar water bottles, and water bottle cages to complete the setup.  I've been told my old bike is a collector for velodromes but I may just keep it for my son when he grows up.  I can't wait to try it out next week at the Northwest Cycle Saturday rides at Zube park.  I rode it around the neighborhood a little.  My house is at the bottom of a little hill where the roads rises slowly for 1 mile - wore me out just getting up it.  Man I'm outta shape.  Hopefully a 20 miler will be alright.  Meanwhile, I'm pretty consistent with hitting the gym and tracking my calories.  I don't find it too hard to maintain a calorie count in the 1,800 per day range.  I've decided to go see a doctor about my knee.  I want to be sure not to shred it once I start "running".  I've lost about 4-5 lbs so far.  So far so good in sticking with the goal of 2 lbs per week.