New Year's Resolution Update

I haven't blogged in three weeks. Finally I am taking a few minutes to reflect on what I wrote on the 1st.

1. Blogging more often: You can see how that is working out. I hope this entry is the start of a trend. Plus, I have a great reason to focus regular habits: I am now training! Which leads me to the next resolution.
2. I have not walked to school or to work at all this year, nor have I biked to work so far. But that changes this week! It needs to change, because I am now signed up to ride 180 miles across Maine in 3 days in June. That is pretty early in the calendar for a major fund-raising ride, but as a teacher who is finished the day before this ride takes place, it will be a perfect time to finish raising funds for the ride. I will also need a couple days to re-set myself for the summer schedule. So, this week I resolve that:
   
1. I will get my "teacher bike" fixed this week. It only needs a new crank, and will be as good as new.
   
2. Next time I have some daylight when it is above freezing, I will put my newly rebuilt rear shock back on my recumbent.
3. I plan to drop Lance, my Cannondale, off at the local shop this week for a wheel rebuild and for new brakes.
   
3. My daily routines have failed to materialize this January. I'm as bad as ever. But I will have to have some patterns in place if I am to successfully finish teaching, take the classes I would like to take, and train for the big ride.
4. I have had the most success with the "No HFCS" resolution. I have only had 2 HFCS sodas all month, plus some Mexican soda sweetened primarily with sugar. Even the cranberry juice drinks I have had recently have been sweetened with apple juice instead of sugar, corn syrup, or HFCS.