This week I'm in Irvine ...

... inaugurating the new training center.  Over the next few months we're replicating this within our offices in Chicago, Niagara Falls, Raleigh, Vancouver BC, and Miami.

Progress report ...

Today marks 1 year since I started riding a stationary bike and tracking the results. I started out riding for 30 minutes at 100 watts to rehab a knee injury. I just kept going and now I'm riding for 1-3 hours per day at 170 watts.  My job requires that I travel a lot so I'm forced to eat in restaurants.  I gained 80 pounds over the course of 8 years.  Last year I set my goal to lose 80 pounds by my 60th birthday, which is in 2 months.  I lost 28 pounds so I'm not going to make it.  However, I stuck to it for a year and I have no intentions of changing.  When I'm traveling I walk at least 10,000 steps per day and when I'm home I hit the bike for at least an hour.  I'll stick to this routine until I drop dead in an airport somewhere.  I use fitbit to track steps and withings to track weight and BP.  I use http://www.fitbit.com, http://www.loseit.com, http://www.dailyburn.com, and http://www.runkeeper.com to keep track everything.  In one year I've ridden my bike for 6,308 miles and I've walked 594 miles.  The walking miles are in addition to normal activity.  I use the loseit.com "fitbit adjustment" and plug that number into a simple algorithm that I wrote to determine how long and how far I walked, in excess of my normal daily activity.  For fun I use http://www.fitocracy.com and http://www.fleetly.com, which are linkable to runkeeper.