Hijacked!

So the name of this website is Ride Eat Repeat....which is pretty much how I live my life. The only thing a wee bit different right now in this 'pre-motorcycle' season is that I am riding a pedal bike. Her name is Pedals and I got her for my birthday last year. I've tweaked her, bought her a fancy rhinestone bell, gave her some saddle bags and a fancy odometer. She's tricked right out and I love her. In November when I got diagnosed with my heart problems, she got garaged and she hasn't been out much since then. The weather has been crap and exercising outside in the cold is too hard on my heart now so she's been forced into hibernation. On May 15, I will be riding her 40km (24 miles) to raise money for a local hospital. In order to do this, I have to focus a little more dilegently on my cardio conditioning and overall fitness. And for that reason, I have developed April Fitness Challenge. Now normally I go to the gym two mornings a week (if I can get out of bed...usually it's more like 1 morning) and once during the week on the way home from work. Sometimes I drag myself to a morning spinning class on the weekend but more often than not, I don't. I also should mention that when I go to the gym in the morning, I call it 4:30am but that's actually when I get out of bed (hard, yes!). When I actually GET to the gym is more like 5am and then change and find the treadmill and I really only get about 35 or 40 minutes of exercise in. Not really good enough, nope. April Fitness Challenge is going to change all that. I've decided that I want and need something more and the only way to get that is to work for it. I've also remembered that it never gets easier. It's not like a week or a month from now I'm going to suddenly WANT to get up at 4am and go to work out and that it's going to feel like kittens licking the flab off. Nope, it's always going to be hard so I might as well get started. The schedule below is my month long plan to improve my fitness and drop some pounds and train for my ride. It will also help me to train for my upcoming 10km run in June. I am temporarily hijacking this blog to chronicle my training for Wheel to Heal ride and to try to help myself stay on track with my AFC schedule. There are a couple of caveats built into this plan, the days with a red square around the date are optional bale days due to female logistical issues, I may need none of them but more than likely I will need at least one. And I have one built in No Way Day that I can pull out ONCE during the month for a free pass for no reason at all. Other than that, it's full go!