September goal conclusions

In September I managed to do:
870 push ups
905 crunches
810 squeezes with my hand grippie thingie
51.1 miles on the bike
With the getting to work earlier goal I ended with a deficit of 33 minutes. Not awful.

The bike was probably the easiest and most fun, which led to finishing the target goal a week early. Finding the time and energy to do a lot of the tasks was tough. It was easy to leave the hand grip thing at work and then I wouldn't be able to work on it over the weekend. It squeaks so it was distracting to do at work even with my door closed, but it was good stress relief in long phone meetings.

One weird side effect of these goals was that I put on 4-5 pounds. I'd like to think that some of it is muscle- my legs are bigger, my abs are more defined and my arms are definitely stronger. But I've also been eating too much fried food and fat. I need to scale those down in October, and maintain the muscle.

My birthday was nice this year. Zoe had play practice and I had war company practice on the actual day so Stef and Zoe did presents and cake for me the day before. I got a bunch of great books, a metronome/tuner I've been wanting, a couple early music CDs (which I forgot to thank my aunt for, so Thanks, Mary!), and a computer game called Spore which I'm loving. War company practice was fun, and good exercise. My buddy Michelle gave me a cookie the size of a pizza, and after practice almost 20 of us went to the Dog and Duck for dinner.