Variety Update

After one week, I’m still on track with my fitness goal. I’ve walked every day this week—170 minutes, or about 9 or 10 miles. My first ten weeks is based on time moving rather than distance. Because I’m walking on sidewalks, my distances are estimated. Though I do know that the trip to the elementary school and back is a smidge over 1.2 miles.

Due to unexpected scheduling, I walked in the dark for the first time today. I live in a safe little town, but the idea of walking at night still made me rather nervous. Many of the streets—even main ones—are sporadically lit, so much of a nighttime walk occurs in real darkness. If I had planned ahead on this one, I’d have taken the giant flashlight with me—you know, the one that doubles as a blunt object? Because I was nervous, I walked too fast, and my lower legs and toe joints are sore for the first time tonight. I had planned to walk one more time tomorrow, then start running Wednesday, but I may have to give myself a day of recuperation to make up for the zoomy walk tonight.

Other issues:

The sleeping goal is mostly still on track. With the exercise, I’m finding that I get impossibly tired at around ten o’clock. The writing goal is turning out to be a bit more challenging…

The exercise and sleeping goals have the advantage of having quantitative markers (moving for 30 minutes; in bed by a certain time). The ‘write every day’ goal is more qualitative. I want this goal to be flexible enough to encompass a variety of different types of writing, but I think I need something more concrete to guide the goal. Perhaps like exercising, I should strive to write for 30 minutes per day. Or have a schedule of different types of writing for each day of the week (such as Blog on Monday, Catch up on Correspondence Tuesday, etc.). I’ll have to think on it.

Oh yeah, I’m still a knitter too! Knitting: scrap sock. Black cuff, then alternating one row of black with one row of whatever teeny ball of yarn I pull out of the bag (currently dark blue). I’m doing a solid black heel and will continue with the blue until it runs out, then grab another ball. The other sock will be slightly different. I’m saving a small ball of a slightly lighter shade of blue to start off the stripes on that one.

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