"Age/Weight Accepted"

I am currently at the gym. The treadmill accepted me once again and I was feeling the warmth (it was actually burning today and that's not even code for anything).

I like to monitor my heart. The only goal I really have for my jogging focuses on heart rate, so of course I monitor it daily. These neat-o-torpedo treadmills like me to enter my age and weight, to give me advice about my heart rate, like what my target rate is and whether or not I'm peaking. Sounds dirty, I know, but I comply.

When you prepare to enter your numbers the weight starts at 150, the age starts at 35 and you have to use the up or down arrows to choose your weight and age. (I think the age should start at 45 because that is probably a more accurate middle age of the members at this gym, but what do I know) These are not septuagenarian treadmills.

So, it is my ultimate goal to do something fantastically boring with my heart that you don't want to read about today, BUT my little baby goal in the back of my head is to, FOR ONE YEAR, enter my weight and age without pressing the up or down buttons. It would just be fun if, for the entire year that I am 35, I was 150 pounds. It could happen.

HOWEVER, if that does happen, the entire year will fly by and the year after it I will spend sad because no matter what I do I will always have to use the up arrows to enter my age. But let's face it, after loosing 25 pounds between now and then, I may be using the up arrow, but I'll be feeling the down arrow, if you know what I mean.