so I signed up for a 5K with the dog…now I feel like I have to be sure she’s ready. I hope this works.
I have a banjo and have had a hard time getting started with it…so last winter I bought a keyboard and that’s going much better…
I never missed went more than a couple of days, but now…I am just going to try for a couple times a week and get back into this!
this is so crazy—but I have a new space, small, that is in an entirely different location, building, etc. than I imagined when I first listed this. I think I can check this off!
I challenge my friend to have at least 15 minutes of exercise every day in December…third year in a row…let’s go!
Loved it…Scotland, Wales, London, Rep of Ireland and N. Ireland—
lots of trains
and ferries
and good folks.
and I’ve been practicing my British/Scottish/Irish accent for a backpack trip through the UK…but everyone says I sound like a pirate.
I still haven’t settled on the new virtual office location in a nearby city, and one of my current spaces has deteriorated to the place that I have to relocate as well.
But….
It seems like I get up and work hard all morning, usually work out a little after lunch and come back to do a little more work before dinner…then once I have dinner everything is on hyperspeed and there is no time for anything but dinner. I really want to be able to play the banjo, or pick back up with the violin or piano (that I played years ago) but just don’t seem to have time or discipline.
To be broader, and include the violin (as a fiddle!) and piano, I am going to revise this goal to be play music and see what happens!
It’s so rotten…but the kids have moved away again and it’s to a place where I think I might be able to clear it out again. BUT this week has a few pressing deadlines…I think I’ll put this on my schedule for next weekend.
I loved this goal…it is the reason I like 43things…I had so much fun doing each of the “sports” and then knowing that I’d have to report back on my success and failure—all with a sense of humor. Fun.
I have a few observations from this little ditty as well.
-There are way more things I can do to stay in shape besides running and lifting weights. I should mix it up a little more!
-By checking the schedule every day and seeing what was set, I had to schedule my work out time if I wanted to consistently do the same event on the day the Olympians did the event. This was a great exercise in SCHEDULING my workout.
-A little fear is really a lot of fun.
Thanks for the encouragement and it’s time to start training for the winter Olympics 2014!
Today had some mighty slim pickins so I picked Men’s Mountain Bike. A friend joined me and we had a great ride, mostly single track and some sort of technical for me…we ran into a couple of other mountain bikers—some men about half way out. One had a flat tire and they were changing it. I smiled, I guess that means we get the silver and the bronze. My friend agreed and then I think she let me beat her to the parking lot…
My husband has promised to join the dog and I as we return to the stadium for the closing ceremony tonight. Apparently the theme is British music.
Saturday morning…and I’d been planning women’s racewalking for a while. It was a beautiful morning, and while I wound up short of the 20K the Olympians do…I enjoyed being outside in the woods with a good friend and the dog for a few hours. No medal, lots of satisfaction.
I had planned to kayak today, but menacing thunderstorms got in the way…the schedule is getting sort of slim, as the games wind down.
So, I did a little research—
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of 2 or more manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free (no apparatus).
Zumba, with a towel in tow at times, was a bit of a stretch, but whose counting? I’ll tell you one thing…watching in the mirror, the team I was on certainly did not win any medals.
