It's the 5th of February (pronounced Fe-brew-airy, not Fe bue airy) and I am roughly 4 weeks into a new training regimen. New Year's resolution and all that. I don't normally make them as it seems a little contrived. If you aren't a goal setter then you are surely going to fail on any grandiose notions you might have just because it is the beginning of a new year. So I guess a better resolution might be: to be a goal setter, or not to be, that is the question to be resolved first.

However, this year is a little different. One of the guys in my table group kind of threw down a challenge. (BTW a table group is a small group of Christ Followers that get together once a week for food and fellowship: our core values revolve around the concepts of belonging, playing, serving, and growing). The challenge was to do a mini-triathalon on April 10th in Kemah, Texas (500 meter swim, 12.5 mile bike, 3 mile run). The challenge has two aspects of our core values: playing, if you can call it that; and serving. We have a single mother of three boys who lost her husband a couple years ago. Now she has lost her job. Well, we are going to do this triathalon thing and use it as a charity spring board to helping this woman and her boys. The money we raise will go towards helping her meet her bills and taking care of her boys. If you read this and feel compelled to help, please contact me at petertrivanovich@comcast.net and I will give you the info to contribute. It will be run through our church and will be fully tax deductible, not to mention someone who really needs it.

So, how is the training regimen going you ask? I must admit it has been difficult, but satisfying. Having an external reason to actually pursue doing this has been very motivating (thanks Stan!). I just checked the website today and there are 63:17:45:29 (Days:Hours:Mins:Secs) until we cross the start line. More tomorrow.