The new Job and the season that never ends...

Wow sorry for the long delay in posts.I'll try not to let this kind of lapse happen again.Here we are on the brink of xmas my least favorite holiday.I'm looking forward to spoiling everyones cheery xmas mood...I;m not what you would call a Scrooge but i'm in the vicinity. Lots to report from my last post...New job at the Trek Bicycle of Downers Grove concept store.I'll be a manager at that store or the new store we just built in Naperville when the season gets here.That seems like a long way off though.As for right now it just seems like time is standing still. I'm stuck here in December with barely any motivation to do any kind of physical activity.I need to wake up and snap out of this funk and soon.Luckily i havent gained any weight yet.But i sure have lost some fitness and strength.I can tell you that with absolute certainty.I have started doing some exercise at work during the downtime i have at the new store.Which anyone knows is alot if your employed at a bike shop in the offseason.I started doing 20 pushups to build up a little strength.WOW.Ouch. In the days proceeding this my chest has ben wicked sore.So im just going to have to keep up the routine until im hardened up.Ya im wishing myself good luck right now. So i went to the Thursday Nite Apres Ride tonite and it seems that they had the yearly (which now will be somewhat weekly or bi-weekly) Pull-up contest for yearly bragging rights.We have alot of these yearly contests i guess...I'm the reigning 5k run champ for the past 2 years,but thats my only title...So back to the story...i walked right into this mess..Apparently Mike disqualified himself for lagging to much between reps so he didnt win but at the same time argues he did win because he did do more but because he took himself out of competition he didnt.That mess could go on for hours.My thoughts on the matte are that if you DQ'd yourself you finished last...Am i right???...So the was much heated debate about th winner so we decided to go to the 2nd event of the nite...This is where i fucked myself...PUSHUPS...FML...So i made a show of it or rather did not make a show of it only being able to do a whopping 2...Thats correct 2 pushups...Im really ashamed to admit such a horrible result but i take solace in the fact that the is a Pro MTB'r by the initials of JHK who is said to not to be able to do a single one...but he is a pro and i dont have a great reason like he does...So now after we all pulled out our man cards tonite(my card was an adolescent one), we are all laying it down on the line and going for broke and training to beat each other...I am at an extreme disadvantage here...Our champion tonite Adam Matson(previously mentioned in a past post) wrecked us all in pushups and made us look like girls and me like a crustacean with no backbone...He unfortunately for all of us, works outside all day lifting heavy stuff and shit so we're all screwed...But i am only going to try to not look like an amoeba and do a respectable amount...Hopefully that renewed motivation will not only get my strength up but will also get me physically ready to rock and roll this coming season...Only time will tell and we will see...More news soon...Later...