Showing posts with label fitness challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness challenge. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2016

Back In The Saddle


Day 90: Today marks the start of the Park's Winter Fitness Challenge for 2016, and I am not (repeat, NOT!) going to go for the Iron Ranger title this year. I've done it two years in a row just to prove that little old ladies are a force to be reckoned with, but it's time to step down and rest on my laurels. For one thing, it's a time-consuming job to achieve the aerobic equivalent of 18 walking miles every day for 12 weeks straight. It may lengthen your life, but it takes a substantial chunk out of it as well. Second and more importantly, I'm developing hip problems, very likely due to the abuses I've piled on this tiny body over the years. Still, I think I can pull off six miles a day for a total of 504 at the end of the run. That will more than cover the 409 miles required from our team of four. Day One is done, anyway!

Friday, October 9, 2015

The Old Forest


Day 361: The Pacific Northwest is hobbit country. I walk through the old forest on a daily basis, following its twisting paths, scrambling among its verdure for mushrooms in the autumn, my hair tangled with moss and lichen. It is a homey place, this woods of oxalis and fern; fir and hemlock and vine maple are interlaced in a canopy which only the strongest sunlight pierces. I love walking here, surrounded by the hues most pleasing to my mind and eyes. If Tolkien did not set his hobbits here, I have yet to see a more likely place.