Why leftovers?

Be honest: What happened to your New Year's Resolutions? If you're anything like me, Life is what happened. As in Life is what happens when you are making other plans. For me, the usual scheduling challenges of final exams and basketball season derailed my January base training goals. Nor did I use those couple of holiday pounds. Of course that means that my race weight is rather distant at the moment.

Enter the Leftovers. So what if mistakes were made? That's what Lent is for. Not being Catholic or Orthodox and with no cultural connection to the religious significance, it always just seemed like a good idea. After the holiday feasting, a time of withdrawl, fasting and reflection to last out the winter until Spring's new growth comes in. Especially when combined with a tradition of New Year's Resolutions, Lent looks to me like a perfect second chance! So we usher in the season of second chances with the Lent Leftovers. Lent takes the leftovers of the New Year and makes a new possibility.

So here we have a group blog: vegpedlr the wanna be triathlete, veggiesis, and veginoodle. Three people trying to redo the New Yaer in time for Lent. Forty days of effort, care to join us?