Rock Band - Guitar Hero

So everyone in my family is addicted to Guitar hero and rock band.

I have lost my xbox360 because of it. It seems I can no longer get any time with my console. All weekend it has been occupied by others playing rockband or guitar hero in tandem. It's fun watching everyone play but to be honest, I enjoy a good rpg or shooter myself. Besides I can only listen to the same 25 songs or so before I find I have to leave the room. Most people just stick to the 5 songs they know anyways so I find that I am starting to hum CREEP now :)

Anyways Rockband 2 is coming out sometime in November. I hope they have alot more songs embeded in the game that more people like.

Workouts

So I had a BMI test run today.

For those who do not know the BMI stands for Body Mass Index and is a measure for how much body fat an individual has based on their height and weight. The specific device which they used to measure this sent a small jolt of electricity thru my body and then once it has passed thru all my fat, is sent back into the device. Based on this, it is able to determine your BMI.

Well although I run, bike and have been seriously weight lifting for the last several months my BMi was 24.9 which went placed in a chart of my peers places me at very poor not to say I am unhealthy just that 24.9% of my body mass is fat. Jeez!

Talk about reality check. People that see me tend to see my muscles and broad shoulders and in the past that has always been good enough but I am 33 and nowadays I want more. I want a ripped stomach and chest and this test proves I have a looooooong way to go.

Lately I have been doing massive cardio and strength training every other day. Running on an average 3 miles a day. Next week I am going to bump up that average to 4 miles a day. I have a reprieve for the next day until Thursday as I am sore and need to recoup but come thursday I'll be running at Ballys and doing some stomach exercises.

On a positive note I went from a 38 to roughly a 36 in pants and I do see a definite improvement in my endurance as well as definition. I think I am also going to start adding swimming into my routine - I love it but every time I go in Ballys - it is packed. I mean you can't do laps. There are way too many people - even at 6am. Mostly older people who live for the swim.

Bike Ride

So I survived the MacDonalds Late Ride 2008 - took about 3 hours to complete the 25 mile bike run. I took it slow and was pleased that at the end I could have gone more. I was able to see the lake at sunrise as I was passing by that point around 4:50 am.
It was very very beautiful. Highlights of red, orange danced on the water and navy pier never looked better.

Mcdonalds had a rather disappointing breakfast waiting for us at the finish line. No sausage, no eggs, no pancakes :) just a bagel, cream cheese, rotten apple slices, chocolate milk and a stale cookie. I kid you not, my apple slices were rotten.

Vitamin water was there - thank god - I needed some sugar in me cause the race actually started at 2:25am - at least that is when my color group was called to race. Unbelievable.

Bike Ride

So I biked about 40 miles yesterday - I feel good - thought I would be really sore today but am actually not too bad. It was a nice day out too.

I biked to pick up my packets for the Late Ride this sat and then decided to bike from there to the Lake. and then down to Loyola and then took Devon all the way to the forest preserve at Devon and Milwaukee and biked the trail a bit before heading home. All in all, a 4 - 4 1/2 hour bike ride. I was a bit unsure of this bike ride on sat, but having done yesterday's ride, 25 miles doesn't seem that bad.

Late Ride 2008

So I am off tomorrow to pick up the tickets for my McDonald's L.A.T.E. Ride 2008. In case you are not familiar with the Bike Ride, it's a 25 Mile ride that is bring held this Saturday. It features 10,000 bicyclists and benefits Friends of the Parks. It's a 33-year-old not-for-profit parks advocacy group whose mission is to protect and improve Chicago's parks and forest preserves in Cook County. If you are not doing anything or want to come cheer me on, you can get more info here: http://www.lateride.org/

I'll be the one with the Linux penguin T-shirt reading - "I'm cheap and Fun!"

Firefox 3.0

Just upgraded my Firefox to 3.0 and am loving the new interface, download manager. All my extensions upgraded without any problems. YES!!!!

Built a new portable of my thunderbird with all the extensions and settings I like also. Think I am going to format my Windoz PC and update all my software. Since the new Ubuntu 8.04.1 was just released - it gives me an excuse to format and re-install my ubuntu pc as well.

So alittle format, install and fireworks this weekend of the 4th. Hope everyone is having a safe fun time out there.