November 7:
Screwed up this day. Things were going well. So I took some time out to play one of the new board games I had backed on Kickstarter many months back (February 2023 in this case) which finally arrived last month. Cut to 4AM this morning...
Fun game though.
Morning Routine:
First Thing Water Challenge:
1-Minute Cardio Challenge:
1-Minute Plank Challenge:
1-Minute Yoga Challenge:
1-Minute Meditation Challenge (modified to 5 min/day):
Le Plat Principal:
Push & Pull (modified to body rows in place of pull-ups):
Better Arms:
Flex Hang (modified to active hangs): Day 3
Power Grip:
2000 One-Legged
Calf Raises*: Day 5
* I'm repeating this challenge doing one-legged calf raises now. For rep days I will complete the set # of reps on each leg. For hold days I will do 3 x 30 seconds on each leg.
Before Bed Routine:
Daily Kicks Challenge:
Squat Hero Challenge:
Iron Core Challenge:
Glutes of Steel Challenge:
Daily Gratitude Challenge:
Mileage:
running:
hiking: 12.5 km
This day we hiked to the park with the adult fitness equipment. It's ~ 4.3 km from where we live. Normally we walk there, I do whatever exercises I need the equipment for, then we walk home. This day, however, Miss Shelby decided she was not done with her walk and wanted to continue on further. It was a good call on her part. I had forgotten that the landscape in that park changes just north of where the exercise equipment is. Most of our hike out there is through typical urban parkland for this area: a paved path through mown grass, with trees dotting the landscape here and there. But north of the fitness equipment the grass disappears, and the path winds through a wildflower meadow. At the north end of the park we have to walk through a subdivision for a couple of blocks but then can pick up the park again at a dirt trail that runs along the river's edge, mostly under tree cover, back to just south of the fitness equipment. (I expect we will see some nice birds through there in the spring!) So our main walk ended up being just over 11km. Then we did another short walk before bed.
Writing:
study & research:
new fiction words: 0
fiction YTD: 140,761
story-a-week challenge: 42 of 52 completed
54 stories in my 54th year challenge: 42 of 54 completed
writing days this week: 2/5
French:
Fluenz
Scheduling Habits:
GOBOT
SOOT
GBOT
I need to get serious about this.
Streaks:
Consecutive days of working out: 60
Consecutive days of French study: 1452
Consecutive days of no solo video games: 48
Consecutive days of SOOT: 0
Consecutive days of GBOT: 0
Move-in progress:
Nothing.
from
The Sonoran Desert
