Celebrating 30 years of living well!

In my last post, Why guys need to find fitness (and life) milestones., I wrote:

What do I have in mind for my “milestone” event?

In May, I made a post titled “Help me find my new challenge“. At the time I wasn’t looking forward to my birthday, but I think that as I come up with ideas, I will. The idea of riding across Nebraska is probably out at this point – but what I have on my mind right now would actually be more challenging physically – and pretty cool (IMO).

Stayed Tuned.

I think that I’ve been hesitating on telling people what my exact plans are because I am scared of – failing to accomplish the journey, I don’t feel fit enough, etc. etc. The whole idea is to take on a challenge that feels somewhat impossible and to celebrate living.

Nikki is 100% into supporting this event, so I don’t have any reason not to try. I figure if I put it out there, it may push me out the door some of these summer days that I don’t want to get out there.

Here are the things that I want to try and accomplish:

1. On September 6th, 2008 – complete the Great Illini Full Distance triathlon
2. Take the next week and ride my bike to Winona Lake, IN (from the GIllini location)
3. On September 13, 2008 (my 30th birthday) run the Lake City Marathon

We’ll see how the planning goes for this? Right now I can honestly say that riding that much would not be possible, no matter what the intensity would be. I also need to find some locals along the route from Illiniois to Indiana to give suggestions on routes and roads to ride.

Here’s the gmap … any suggestions? [edit note: the map below is a different route than gmap show in the full frame? The full frame map does not go through Indy..]

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