I saw a saying on facebook just now. It said something like how about adding "be a nice person" to your bucket list. Any asshole can jump out of a plane! Love and and totally agree.
I reminded me of my fellow crossfitter Becky and her blog she wrote the other day about a fitness bucket list. Great idea! We always have the big lists of things we want to do before we die and so on, but those are usually big dreams and plans that we may never make happen. Or wait until we see our demise coming and then scramble to get them done. Now fitness goals on the other hand can be worked on each day and progress seen so much quicker. I have achieved things since starting crossfit I never thought I could do. Hell I never even comtemplated wanting to do them!
So what are my fitness goals? Well I thought about some after reading Becky's post and came up with a few, but I know there will be more. I think I got Josh thinking about it too. Maybe he will post a comment of some of his when he reads this.
I had some fitness goals I was working on at the gym, but they seemed to have gone by the wayside for some reason. Just other things and WODs to do there I guess. Do a kipping pull up was one of them. I actually took a special class at Ignite just to help with this. It certainly did help and I can now say I can do one of these. Chin above the bar and everything! :D At one point I could string about 6 together in a row, but it seems I have lost my rythm and things are spotty at best. I was getting frustrated, but later reminded that just being able to do them in the first place is an accomplishment. So I will stop whining. I can still do about 6, one at a time, but would like to be able to do them smoothly. So I guess that makes one obvious goal.
I think for now my list will not include numbers. Those will come after the skill is mastered me thinks!
(1) Be able to do smooth, strung-together kipping pull ups!
I had also been working on handstand push ups for awhile. My max is 4, fairly shallow, ones. Nothing like the pros. I think this is a bad ass looking skill and want to learn to do more!
(2) Be able to work up to bad ass handstand push ups and any other variation thereof!
Josh was able to climb the rope pretty soon after we began crossfitting. It stil pisses me off that I can't do it. I mean literaly I have had to stop trying due to getting mad. My issue is the rope between my feet. It hurts like hell when it is draped over the top of my foot and I step on it to get up. I either need to find a less painful way or just condition by foot to suck it up. Good news though is that at last try I got up to 2 good pulls up the rope (a couple times) before I quit because of my foot.
(3) Be able to climb that damn rope up to the top!
Reebok has a big competition of crossfit athletes who get together to see who is the best of the best in crossfit. You get there by completing a series of workouts and if you so well in your region and so forth you move up. Anyone can register online and see how they do. I didn't feel I was ready as there are prescribed wieghts for the WODs and I felt I would not be capable of using those wieghts. I was so proud of Josh for entering and doing the WODs! I did some with him (of course with ligher weight than I was supposed to) and it was HARD! He did great and I am super proud of him!
(4) Do the crossfit open next year
We have some 5km obstacle races coming up. One July 22 and August 18. Mud Hero and the Spartan Sprit.
(5) To finish Mud Hero and Spartan. If things go well do more and longer races. The longer Spartans and Tough Mudder perhaps.
(6) To do a Run for Your Lives event. A zombiefied obstable race in lots of places in the US. Wanted to do that this summer but could not swing it.
(7) Do the West Coast Trail. I'm putting this as a fitness goal but it could go in another category of just trips to take. But it is a week long backpacking adventure so have to be pretty fit for that.
That's all I can think of for now, but I know there will be more. I'll add as I go. Good thing I have a blog so I can type more anytime I want!
Later!
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Sleep Really is Wonderful!
Ahhh! We all know sleep is important but do we ever truly put that knowledge into practice? I know I don't. It was quite a weekend with the Relay and we still seemed to be tired on Tuesday night. I think being up all night and sleeping in so many days put us out of wack. Not to mention for some reason neither of us slept well Monday night. So Josh and I made a deal, if we skipped the gym then we were to go straight to bed after supper with no TV! Sounds like something your parents would say but it worked! Josh fell asleep very quickly and I was not far behind. Feel really good today! I did feel a little like a wimp for not going to the gym, but I listened to my body and it was telling me "I feel crappy" so I didn't go, but still did something healthy instead. Must remember how good I feel after sleeping well, maybe I'll do to bed early more often even though it is so hard to do in the summer!
Let's see what else ... Relay for Life was good. No rain this year so that was super amazing! Also has some people come out and walk with us this year for some shifts. My parents, Josh's sister and her friend came in the evening, one of my friends for a late shift and Josh's mom. She stayed quite late and I was impressed. My parents came back at about 4 am and walked. Josh and I finally sat down and fell asleep for a little bit. I thought I was a trooper but he barely stopped all night! Love him for that! Saturday we slept until about 4pm. Went to a back yard campfire and that was about it. Sunday was a sort of lazy day. We took a drive to see some properties for sale and then supper at my parents' house. Monday some grocery shopping and then Yoga in the Park. Loved that!
We ended up booking the Turkey trip that I mentioned in my last post. Yikes! We are going for 19 days at the end of October. Decided to stay in Amsterdam for a few days on the way back from Turkey as it didn't cost any extra on the flight. Then we thought later though that even though the flight isn't any more money, being gone longer will be. OH BOY! Time to squirrel some money away - hardcore!!
But as we are supposed to be saving money we went out and looked for property. Our living out on the country bug has bitten again! Josh is also back into looking at earthships and I think I am ready to let that be our decision on our house design. Earthship is an unfortunate name as it makes people sound like complete quacks when they mention them. Basically it is an off grid, sustainable type of housing that is made of recycled tires and materials. With it's own greenhouse inside! Really! People can grow indoors and eat what they plant! Too cool! As a city girl I have been somewhat nervous about thinking of living too far from a big city but I thin I am almost over that. I have even been liking the idea of small town life. Not living in one mind you, but close to one so I can just visit, or even own a business. Hey who knows, if I even do get my Masters in counselling I could open up my own practice.
So serenely strange how dreams can shift and evolve .....
Let's see what else ... Relay for Life was good. No rain this year so that was super amazing! Also has some people come out and walk with us this year for some shifts. My parents, Josh's sister and her friend came in the evening, one of my friends for a late shift and Josh's mom. She stayed quite late and I was impressed. My parents came back at about 4 am and walked. Josh and I finally sat down and fell asleep for a little bit. I thought I was a trooper but he barely stopped all night! Love him for that! Saturday we slept until about 4pm. Went to a back yard campfire and that was about it. Sunday was a sort of lazy day. We took a drive to see some properties for sale and then supper at my parents' house. Monday some grocery shopping and then Yoga in the Park. Loved that!
We ended up booking the Turkey trip that I mentioned in my last post. Yikes! We are going for 19 days at the end of October. Decided to stay in Amsterdam for a few days on the way back from Turkey as it didn't cost any extra on the flight. Then we thought later though that even though the flight isn't any more money, being gone longer will be. OH BOY! Time to squirrel some money away - hardcore!!
But as we are supposed to be saving money we went out and looked for property. Our living out on the country bug has bitten again! Josh is also back into looking at earthships and I think I am ready to let that be our decision on our house design. Earthship is an unfortunate name as it makes people sound like complete quacks when they mention them. Basically it is an off grid, sustainable type of housing that is made of recycled tires and materials. With it's own greenhouse inside! Really! People can grow indoors and eat what they plant! Too cool! As a city girl I have been somewhat nervous about thinking of living too far from a big city but I thin I am almost over that. I have even been liking the idea of small town life. Not living in one mind you, but close to one so I can just visit, or even own a business. Hey who knows, if I even do get my Masters in counselling I could open up my own practice.
So serenely strange how dreams can shift and evolve .....
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
Update?
So it's been a week since my last post and I am nit sure what to write but keep having this urge that I should. I think mostly that comes from one of my original fears that I would start a blog and not keep it up.
So what has been happening? Not that much really. Life is ticking along quite fast. We did another garage sale for Relay and raised some more money. I have to say that I am quire sick of hosting garage sales and will not be doing one for awhile. It also meant that I missed another Saturday farmer's market day. :( But the Wednesday market is tonight and I will be going after work. I asked Country Thyme Farms to make me a pot of planted herbs. I'm excited about it! Lame I know, but Josh planted some green onions and yesterday I planted some cat grass for Jenkins. I do not have a green thumb in any way so this could be interesting. We are still waiting for poop from the worms. They are chugging along but it seems slow. Have a container of food for them in the freezer waiting. They can't keep up! lol
I also am looking forward to Yoga in the park this summer. I had no idea they did this last year and I so long to go! I missed Monday and there were pictures on Facebook that made me so sad I missed it! It's possible for me to make it after work to the classes at 5:30 if I take my yoga stuff in the car with me and leave a few minutes early from work. I have my fingers crossed for today but the weather keeps calling for rain. It's also supposed to rain Friday for the Relay. I'm praying that at least one year I will be allowed to walk all night without getting wet. This year my not be that year though.
Oh well, what can you do?
I should go back to my earlier posts and look at our "want to do list" and see what we have been able to do so far. The last few weekends have been taken up by Relay stuff. Josh announced to me today that there is a flight sale to Turkey and he wants to go. The trip would not be until later, like November to April but still! And the sale ends tomorrow morning! Talk about trying to get me to make a tough decision with no notice! I'm not good at that! All I think about is the money and all the other things we wanted to save money for. Not to mention what if I finally happen to get pregnant. Could we still go? Josh said we are on the verge of making the jump to responsible adults and this might be a last chance to go somewhere.
I thought I was a responsible adult!! I'm seven years older than him so I sometimes assume the adult role in the relationship. Which can be good and bad. He also tried to entice me with calling it a baby moon. The get away couples go for before their child is born. That all works dandy if I was actually pregnant. Nothing still and it is close to that time of the month where I will find out if I am or not. These have been the hardest times. The last few times I have built it up so much (even while at the same time telling myself not to) and then been disappointed. Last month Josh and I had an argument and it turned out it may have had to do with that. He feels the pressure too and then has to deal with my reaction and his own disappointment. I never really realized how low the odds are of getting pregnant. Maybe a two day window in the entire month, and of course since I'm over 30 it can be even less. When I talked to the doctor he just gave me a knowing look like he has heard my plight before and to give it more time. At least he agreed that if nothing happens by end of summer we can start looking into it.
That's about all I got. Starting to get excited for the Mud Hero coming in July. I must say I have never in my life actually wanted to go running until this summer. I even chose to run for last night's WOD instead of row!
Who is this person I have become? ;)
So what has been happening? Not that much really. Life is ticking along quite fast. We did another garage sale for Relay and raised some more money. I have to say that I am quire sick of hosting garage sales and will not be doing one for awhile. It also meant that I missed another Saturday farmer's market day. :( But the Wednesday market is tonight and I will be going after work. I asked Country Thyme Farms to make me a pot of planted herbs. I'm excited about it! Lame I know, but Josh planted some green onions and yesterday I planted some cat grass for Jenkins. I do not have a green thumb in any way so this could be interesting. We are still waiting for poop from the worms. They are chugging along but it seems slow. Have a container of food for them in the freezer waiting. They can't keep up! lol
I also am looking forward to Yoga in the park this summer. I had no idea they did this last year and I so long to go! I missed Monday and there were pictures on Facebook that made me so sad I missed it! It's possible for me to make it after work to the classes at 5:30 if I take my yoga stuff in the car with me and leave a few minutes early from work. I have my fingers crossed for today but the weather keeps calling for rain. It's also supposed to rain Friday for the Relay. I'm praying that at least one year I will be allowed to walk all night without getting wet. This year my not be that year though.
Oh well, what can you do?
I should go back to my earlier posts and look at our "want to do list" and see what we have been able to do so far. The last few weekends have been taken up by Relay stuff. Josh announced to me today that there is a flight sale to Turkey and he wants to go. The trip would not be until later, like November to April but still! And the sale ends tomorrow morning! Talk about trying to get me to make a tough decision with no notice! I'm not good at that! All I think about is the money and all the other things we wanted to save money for. Not to mention what if I finally happen to get pregnant. Could we still go? Josh said we are on the verge of making the jump to responsible adults and this might be a last chance to go somewhere.
I thought I was a responsible adult!! I'm seven years older than him so I sometimes assume the adult role in the relationship. Which can be good and bad. He also tried to entice me with calling it a baby moon. The get away couples go for before their child is born. That all works dandy if I was actually pregnant. Nothing still and it is close to that time of the month where I will find out if I am or not. These have been the hardest times. The last few times I have built it up so much (even while at the same time telling myself not to) and then been disappointed. Last month Josh and I had an argument and it turned out it may have had to do with that. He feels the pressure too and then has to deal with my reaction and his own disappointment. I never really realized how low the odds are of getting pregnant. Maybe a two day window in the entire month, and of course since I'm over 30 it can be even less. When I talked to the doctor he just gave me a knowing look like he has heard my plight before and to give it more time. At least he agreed that if nothing happens by end of summer we can start looking into it.
That's about all I got. Starting to get excited for the Mud Hero coming in July. I must say I have never in my life actually wanted to go running until this summer. I even chose to run for last night's WOD instead of row!
Who is this person I have become? ;)
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Why I like rain.
Let's start with a quick weekend recap and then I will get to my reason for such a crazy title!
Saturday we were up early than our usual sleep in routine. Was a Relay for Life Tailgate party. Basically an outdoor fair for all the teams trying to raise money. We did pretty well, but there could have been a lot more traffic if we were down by the farmer's market I think. It's coming down to the wire and I'm happy with our funds raised but am a little sad we don't have many team members. It would be nice to have more than 3 of us walking all night. *sigh*. I didn't make it to the market but at least Josh did.
Anyways Saturday we were wiped out. Josh has thought we should rent a canoe on Sunday and practice in the river. After an argument in the morning, over our differing communication styles about the canoeing and making up, we headed to Valhalla to get one. As it turned out someone had rented all the canoes they had for the day. Boo! So we decided to go wall climbing at Collicutt. Wall is only open in the evenings - Boo again.
Earlier in the week we had agreed to go for a run on Sunday and I actually still wanted to go. I convinced Josh we needed to do it and we went to Kerrywood nature centre to do the 4km loop. 26 min 9 sec. A better time than I thought. I had guessed we took about ten minutes longer. My legs were still tired from out last WOD of sumo dead lift high pulls and the stairs licked my butt that time. I was proud of Josh for still coming even when he really didn't want to. It had finally been my turn to push him into working out and I succeeded! It used to be the opposite! I wore my new pair of Vibram Spyridon trail running shoes. Got a good blister on my bunion! Hope I can get back into them next time without too much pain. I am really getting excited for Mud Hero. We watched a Run for your Life zombie run video on facebook and it looks so awesome! Already have a list going of things we want to do for next year!
Over the weekend I got an email from Mike, the Steel Pony farmer. We bought a share in his farm. They deliver a box a week of veggies to you from July to October. Since June I have been very impatiently waiting for this to start. For some reason I had it in my head that we would be getting veggies in June. When we first signed up we offered to lend a hand whenever he needed it. Now was our time! We headed down the the farm which is just by Fort Normandeau. We were there for about 5 hours and learned a ton! I realize now that I could never be a farmer. It takes so long for things to grow! But it was neat seeing Mike excited when he noticed some of the plants coming out of the ground that were not there a week before. We also found out we had some similarities in thinking and interests. Was cool. So this is why I now like rain!! Bring on the veggies, garlic and herbs!!
It got me thinking about Mike and his girlfriend, who is co-owner of the farm, and a girl I knew through derby that just started her own ice cream truck in town. After hearing his story of how it came about that he started his own farm and thinking of Andrea I decided it is a supremely brave thing to do something like that. To go it alone in an area that you have never done before and just learn as you go. Mike said he is still learning and it is his second year of running the farm. Inspiring and scares the hell our of me at the same time. I have been toying with the idea of going back to school to get my masters in counselling, but it all seems so daunting. Not to mention all my questions of what happens or what I do when I get done. Go it alone in my own practice? Where would I get a job? Just thinking about it again makes me nervous.
I don't know what the answer is but it's been interesting seeing Mike and Andrea make a scary decision and just do it! Inspiring to see but not good in another as it kind of puts the question right in my face. "If they are doing it, why aren't you?"
Saturday we were up early than our usual sleep in routine. Was a Relay for Life Tailgate party. Basically an outdoor fair for all the teams trying to raise money. We did pretty well, but there could have been a lot more traffic if we were down by the farmer's market I think. It's coming down to the wire and I'm happy with our funds raised but am a little sad we don't have many team members. It would be nice to have more than 3 of us walking all night. *sigh*. I didn't make it to the market but at least Josh did.
Anyways Saturday we were wiped out. Josh has thought we should rent a canoe on Sunday and practice in the river. After an argument in the morning, over our differing communication styles about the canoeing and making up, we headed to Valhalla to get one. As it turned out someone had rented all the canoes they had for the day. Boo! So we decided to go wall climbing at Collicutt. Wall is only open in the evenings - Boo again.
Earlier in the week we had agreed to go for a run on Sunday and I actually still wanted to go. I convinced Josh we needed to do it and we went to Kerrywood nature centre to do the 4km loop. 26 min 9 sec. A better time than I thought. I had guessed we took about ten minutes longer. My legs were still tired from out last WOD of sumo dead lift high pulls and the stairs licked my butt that time. I was proud of Josh for still coming even when he really didn't want to. It had finally been my turn to push him into working out and I succeeded! It used to be the opposite! I wore my new pair of Vibram Spyridon trail running shoes. Got a good blister on my bunion! Hope I can get back into them next time without too much pain. I am really getting excited for Mud Hero. We watched a Run for your Life zombie run video on facebook and it looks so awesome! Already have a list going of things we want to do for next year!
Over the weekend I got an email from Mike, the Steel Pony farmer. We bought a share in his farm. They deliver a box a week of veggies to you from July to October. Since June I have been very impatiently waiting for this to start. For some reason I had it in my head that we would be getting veggies in June. When we first signed up we offered to lend a hand whenever he needed it. Now was our time! We headed down the the farm which is just by Fort Normandeau. We were there for about 5 hours and learned a ton! I realize now that I could never be a farmer. It takes so long for things to grow! But it was neat seeing Mike excited when he noticed some of the plants coming out of the ground that were not there a week before. We also found out we had some similarities in thinking and interests. Was cool. So this is why I now like rain!! Bring on the veggies, garlic and herbs!!
It got me thinking about Mike and his girlfriend, who is co-owner of the farm, and a girl I knew through derby that just started her own ice cream truck in town. After hearing his story of how it came about that he started his own farm and thinking of Andrea I decided it is a supremely brave thing to do something like that. To go it alone in an area that you have never done before and just learn as you go. Mike said he is still learning and it is his second year of running the farm. Inspiring and scares the hell our of me at the same time. I have been toying with the idea of going back to school to get my masters in counselling, but it all seems so daunting. Not to mention all my questions of what happens or what I do when I get done. Go it alone in my own practice? Where would I get a job? Just thinking about it again makes me nervous.
I don't know what the answer is but it's been interesting seeing Mike and Andrea make a scary decision and just do it! Inspiring to see but not good in another as it kind of puts the question right in my face. "If they are doing it, why aren't you?"
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