THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER

Oh you must, must you?

So it’s been a week or so since I posted here. And the people… they MUST have their Dan Miller. So here I am.

I know… I know… you’ve been missing me. I’m sure it won’t help when I tell you that I’ve been posting over at my secret new blog. Yup, that’s right. My secret new blog.

But I will give a little something to the masses.

My goals have been going… okay I guess. The wake up in the morning goal has been doing well. We changed the alarm from music to annoyo-alarm and it was decided that I have to go turn it off. And what do you know, ME having to turn it off versus getting to lay in bed while someone else turns it off actually increases the odds that I will get out of bed. I mean, I know, it’s revolutionary. But hey I’m telling you – it’s true!!!

I have not been doing so well on the “do 1 productive thing at night” goal. We did go down I think Friday or Saturday night and clean out all the old expired food from the General Store. It’s actually looking kind of bare, relatively speaking. We felt pretty bad about throwing away all that food, but there is a limit to how much you can eat Hamburger Helper that expired in 2005.

We threw away some of it, and I brought some of the not TOO expired stuff into work to give away and then I am selling 18 Glade Wisps with 22 refill packages on eBay. I am estimating that between the auctions (I split them up into 3 separate auctions) I will clear $40 off of them. I’ll keep you posted.

Exercising is going well. Oddly enough this morning as I was entering the Y, I saw PJ there who was just leaving. We talked for awhile and then I went in and did what they call a “brick” (2 different activities back to back). This is part of triathlon training though you’re supposed to actually do 2 of the sections that are back to back in a triathlon (like swim and then bike, or the most common one is bike and then run). I ran and then swam. I changed it up on the run – I wanted to see how fast I could sprint a mile. So I set the treadmill to 9 mph and then periodically upped it, ending up at 10.2. I got the mile done in 6:35 which was cool. Of course that’s only a 20:27 5k pace, and frankly the thought of running that fast (and actually a bit faster) for another 2 miles and change (to get a sub 20 minute 5K) is mind-boggling.

Then I went and swam. I went for 17 laps, which is approximately how far I’ll have to swim in my upcoming triathlon. With the annoying yards to meters action, 17 laps is 425 yards which is 388.62 meters – so a little shorter. But I got it in about 12 minutes (compared to last year’s time of 13:50). And that even was with some significant breakage time. I managed to go 3 laps and then break, all the way till the end when I was feeling okay after lap 15, so I kept going till the end. And of course 17 laps put me on the wrong end of the pool so I did another lap for fun and then 2 more laps to cool down.

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6 responses to “Oh you must, must you?”

  1. I find swimming laps SO hard. I don’t know how you to it.

    Hey, we need some New House update pictures. If ya don’t mind.

  2. It’s mostly the fact that I know that I’m going to have to swim 400 meters in a month and a half and not wanting to drown

  4. Man I think that’s one of those things that would be cool once or twice but then REAL annoying.

    Kind of like shoveling the snow at your first home.

    I read a thing the other day on this. This guy’s thought was that you have to turn waking up into a reflex. You don’t think about it, or debate about whether or not you want to get up – you just get up because it’s what you always do, like brushing your teeth after a meal, or something.

    He advocated “practicing” at non-morning times. So you get all “ready for bed”, set your alarm for 2 or 3 minutes, and then get into bed. When the alarm goes off, you get up out of bed, stretch and turn off your alarm. Do that 50 or 100 times over a couple of weeks and you’re well on your way to a habit.

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