Why this blog?

Every summer (or winter or spring or fall) Marilyn and I tell ourselves that we want to spend more time in outdoor activities.  This happens a lot as we are completing a bike ride as we were last Friday.  The trouble is that we keep saying that but typically are never as active as we envision when we make those statements.  If I learned one thing in the years I spent learning and practicing quality management, it is this:  If you measure something, you will manage it, and perhaps more important, if you don't measure something, you will never manage it.

So this blog will be my way of measuring my (our) outdoor activities so we can see exactly how active we are and how we can increase that activity as we say we want to.  This will be made easier by the fact that last May I purchased a Garmin 305 which is a wrist held Garmin that provides a number of measurements of physical activity.  This device is typically mounted on my bike or my  wrist so it is technically a measure of my physical outdoor activity.  The blog post will make clear when Marilyn is along.

I am starting this on August 14 and have gone back to last week for the first activity posts.  Oh, and I should mention that I work out regularly as a club nearby but those will not be included.  What will be included will be biking, hiking, fitness walking, xc skiing, snow shoeing, and perhaps even kayaking and golf.