October 24 - November 3, 2026 Catch Up Post
Thank you
@Fitato 
Shelby and I are well. We have just been busy!
October 24 we hosted a dinner party. So I was busy all day prepping for that. Two friends from out of town stayed over after the dinner party. Sunday, after breakfast, we walked them to the train station. I thought we would head back home after that. But Shelby wanted a longer walk. (She is doing
much better at walking since I got the proper meds for her from our old vet.) Monday I actually got most things from the dinner party cleaned up and squared away. But by Tuesday we were dog-sitting for a friend who just had a baby. Then on Wednesday another friend from out of town came back to visit us again. She had initially planned to stay over after the dinner party, and we were all going to hike together on the Sunday. But she ended up going home on Saturday night since I don't have three guest beds. Then she came back Wednesday, and we all hiked together on Wednesday and Thursday. We still had the visiting dog until Saturday afternoon and so did another nature hike with him on Friday.
Since Sunday I have actually been on DAREBEE a lot. I've just been invisible to all of you, doing work behind the scenes to prepare for this year's Secret Santa Workout Gift Exchange. Some exciting changes are coming to Secret Santa this year, but the elves still have work to do to get everything ready for the event. So that's my project for this week. If all goes well, sign-ups will open on Monday.
Between having house guests and doing all the extra hiking last week I was not able to keep up with my regular DAREBEE workouts. I still did something every day. But I fell so far behind on Crucible I decided my best course of action was to just take a full week off. So I'll be starting back on that today. This throws off my schedule for when I'll be doing the Program hardcore and when I'll just be in maintenance mode. But I'm okay with this. I've decided to just do the Program hardcore once through before my birthday and do maintenance the remainder of the weeks until then. This will leave me with more time to have fun with the DARETREE and Secret Santa, as well as get in some more yoga flows, do more long hikes with Shelby now while the weather is perfect for hiking, and build my running base back up to the 5.6 km I'll need to be able to do by January 13. I'll start my second hardcore pass through the Program the week after my birthday, when all of the holiday festivities (and also my next dinner party) will be over.
