Usually it is to lose weight but that usually fails so I’m going to ambush that one with this one.
12000km for the year.
That’s 1000km per month.
That’s 33.707865168539325842696629213483km per day.

Today was the annual New Year’s Day family get together at the in-law’s house.
That means partaking in the traditional ‘osechi’ New Year’s breakfast which took a few years to get that acquired taste going.
Below are a few of the typical New Year breakfast foods.

Here is the soup with pounded rice gum in it. Many elderly people choke to death every New Year’s morning eating this as the ball of gummy rice often gets stuck in the throat of people who haven’t chewed it into smaller bits. Elderly people can’t eat this with their false teeth in and often end up trying to swallow it whole. I’m sure we’ll hear of a few in tomorrow’s newspapers.

While looking in my mobile phone mini SD card for these photos I found a few others I had meant to blog about in December.

This is a park in Abiko called Akebono Park. I sometimes take the long way home from work past this windmill. This must have been the last time I rode to work and I can’t remember exactly when that was.

Here is the storage rack I bought at Costco. At the moment it has all my cycling nicknacks and the dog’s bits and pieces.

And today’s New years stats that I will hide down the bottom of the page.
The weight has gone up a lot but so has the muscle mass.
Stats Day 1
体重: Weight: 89.5kg
体脂肪: Body Fat: 27.6%
基礎代謝: DCI/BMR Metabolic rate 1831
体年齢: Metabolic Age: 50
筋肉量　 : Muscle mass 61.3kg
Physical Ratings: 3(1-3)Overweight (4-6) Healthy (7-9) Too lean
Visceral Fat Rating: 16 (1-12 )= Healthy: (13-59) = Overweight
Bone mass 3.3kg

I got on the roller tonight to see if I could do this New Year’s resolution.
Not having ridden much in December it was hard to get going. I also was experiencing some cramps in my calves probably by not warming up slowly enough.
I did
55.06 minutes
30.94km distance
33.7kph average
Max speed 53km

Today’s mileage: 30.94km km
Yearly total: 30.94kmkm
Daily average: 30.94km
Daily average goal: 33.71km

A little bit below the required average but I’ll be riding over 100km tomorrow.
Will try and take some video footage tomorrow of our club’s annual visit to a shrine called ‘hatsumoude’

sore dewa…