A Wandering WeyrCat...

I #hiked 5.5 miles on the #FloridaTrail in Jonathan Dickinson State Park.

This post requires no working knowledge of the Lord of the Rings series, but does make mention of names and places. Mainly, it's about walking. A lot. I closed out the April PT log and found I had completed my 912 mile goal (running, waking, biking) to walk "Fellowship of the Ring". I started this journey 2013 July 21. It's the second "Hobbit walk" I've completed, having done "The Hobbit" in 2012-2013. At this point in the story, the Fellowship has broken,  Boromir is slain, Pippin and Merry are captured by orcs, and Aragorn, Legless Lego Legolas and Gimli return to Parth Gelen. (Note, I did not "rewalk" the trip from Hobbiton to Rivendell. It would have been too boring. The 912 includes the 629 from Hobbit plus 61 miles unaccounted for by the people who originally compiled the miles for the Walks I'm basing my mileage on.) The trek is broken down into shorter goals, usually bookmarked by events in the book (443 miles...

Hey FitBit Users (and other Pedometer Users)! (TLDR? Link to badges at the bottom!) Now that we, in the Northern Hemisphere, are getting a little squishy with warm comfort food and hiding from cooler temperatures, I think some of us are finding it harder and harder to get out the door for that walk. Well guess what? I will if you will! (For those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, consider this a Better Bikini Body walk!) For the month of December I'm challenging you to 100,000 STEPS! Sometimes I'm lucky if I get 2,000 steps a day, and all of those are between classes! It's going to take a little work to get to 100,000 steps, but think of all the eggnog that burns off! (wink)

I just can't believe how motivating these folks are! I did NOT expect people to jump on as they did, and some are over 500,000 and others are walking though they're sick or lost their FitBit and it's just... wow. Just wow.  KelliBean! You did a Triathlon! WHEW! If you worry about losing the steps, can you guestimate them? Were they for the run portion (measured) or through some time later? I'm SO IMPRESSED that you kept working to you 10k goal, even though I'm sure you already made it! AMAZING!  DLDMIL You are rocking my socks. I'd only made badges through 550,000, but I obviously need to make some more! Motivated! Dedicated!  I LOVE seeing you guys pass your goals! Olivianight! Awesome! Nutron3, ALSO making me make new badges! I LOVE IT! MyseterRose74, blowing past your goal too! MsLizzy!  ScubaDiva50 you are doing awesome! I hope you feel better soon, and that it's just a day in the dumps! STAY MOTIVATED!  And everyone else diligently plugging along toward...

Thank you EVERYONE for making this SparkChallenge AMAZING and motivating! I made the badges in increments of 50,000 steps. If for some reason I don't have one high enough for you (GO YOU) please leave me a comment or SparkMail me and I will get one to you in a jiffy! STAY MOTIVATED! UnOfficial SparkPeople Turkey Track 100,000 Step Challenge (FitBit)

Busy day. House leaking again. Rook got a waterproof boot and a soft cone (for when I leave the house) and thinks I'm the meanest mom ever.... though she can run outside again. Lab plates coming along nicely. Had to replate the transgenic tobacco (oh, THAT abaxial, gotcha). Spider Plant is doing awesome (gravitropism definitely wins pout in the stem, but the leaves still sun down at the light source). Vampire Plant almost died; I think we need more water in his dark tinfoil/cardboard cave. Ran again, completing my May streak and signaling my return to running! Still short distances, 0.7, but more than zero and three tunes a week! Go me!

There should be a #zen proverb about the floor of your car and the way of your life. I think I'd like mine today. #studying while #walking at the #dogpark after #running 0.5 mi. Also, 8h2o, 21min YinYoga, 3x10 kPush Up.

Final grades posted! Five A's and a B+. Ran another 0.5 mi, yin yoga, and 1.75mi walking at park. Getting there. Booo B+ kills my chances of reclaiming 3.9 GPA by graduation!

SS-3x8#DB curl, shoulder press. 4.4mi. 6H2O. Happy Earth Day! Turned in 45 volunteer hours! Read much. One more week. Kinda.

If I edit my past am I still me? If I plan my future am I still free? Pretending to study. 8H2O 30PU 4.2mi. DQ.

PHEW! Not dead, just working on final projects. With six classes I have Critical Assignments in all but one of them, and most of them still have final exams. I've been a bit busy. Oddly it means that my "finals week" will be much less stressful than that of my husband. I'll take it! Right now he's supporting us (dinnerwise) and I'll again take up the mantle for his finals week. I've still been getting a  little  fun done. Kinda. Enough that I've split it into smaller bloglets.

6 WEEK CHALLENGE - November 12 to December 24, Rangers, WeyrCat - Into the Mountain (Challenge 3) [ link ] Updates: November 12, 2012 - RP . Intro, goals. Nov 13, 2012 - RP . Studied a lot, Minimized a lot, no cardio (still sick). Stretching before bed.

Finals are coming! Finals are coming! School: I've been pretty busy. It's that time of year when studying for exams and writing final papers takes up almost all my time. For example, I attended an exam review yesterday that took four hours. Image from "Reflections  on becoming a teacher" I finished my first set of Observation hours for my Intro to Ed class. It was very... illuminating. I happened to be reading Setting Limits in the Classroom by Robert J. MacKenzie Ed.D. at the time so I actually got to see the control methods in action (or inaction...). I did enjoy the experience and look forward to next semester. I hope I get another high school biology course (the grade and subject is not guaranteed). I got a 79% on my second Genetics exam. It kind of makes me twitch to be SO CLOSE to the B and just unable to grasp it. I know it's because I'm STILL not spending enough time on it, even though it feels like some days I do nothing BUT genetics. ...

6 WEEK CHALLENGE - September 24 to November, Rangers, WeyrCat - DragonRider (Challenge 2) [ link ] Updates: September 28th, 2012 - RP . Getting in the swing. September 30th, 2012 - RP . Cardio and Volunteering! October 15th, 2012 - Short summary. Busy with school. October 17th, 2012 - On track and rockin! October 19th, 2012 - Tired, unmotivated! October 22nd, 2012 - ITBS Flare up. October 28th, 2012 - Week in review. Wallet Stolen. October 30th, 2012 - Homework and slipping a little. October 31st, 2012 - Food: great. PT: bad. School: GOOD. November 2nd, 2012 - Day 7 food sobriety, chugging along! November 6th, 2012 - Looks like A, C, D, F for quests, but chuggin along! November 9th, 2012 - A, C, C, F for Quests. RP . Gained:  2.4WIS, 3.2STR, 2.9CON,2.2STA.  September 27th, 2012 12:56 AM I've always been a weyrcat. A cat that lives with dragons. What I've never had the courage to do... is ride one. I'm a helper. I do as others...

20120812 What I learned in Week 1 of the NerdFitness 6 Week Challenge: It's so easy to go down the warp tube and just skip all the swimming levels... -I comp'd myself the hour of study on the 6th because I took my final that day. It was a decision I made a week before the challenge started, and I even ended up making up for it the next day (studied twice the minimum amount). I also said I would allow myself to go over 1500 (to binge, essentially) on Date Night as long as I made up for it via PT. I didn't do it. But I found myself wanting, nay, actually altering my log to "even out" days when I'd binged on one day but had a good deficit the next. I was filling in potholes. I was cheating! Maybe in another challenge it'll be "have a negative overall calorie intake for the challenge" but that's NOT this challenge! My challenge here is to stop BINGING. -I also found myself "filling in potholes" for my study time, and for these c...

(Cross posted from the NerdFitness archives for posterity) 6 Week Challenge - August 6 - September 17Rangers Every story has a beginning. It winds along through trials and triumphs, like a living, breathing, thing. Accomplishments beat the cadence of a heartbeat, and failures paint the tracks of its tears. The difference between life and a story, isn't as great as you think. You may not be able to rewrite your beginning, but you can always write a new chapter. The past does not concern us, only the future. Chapter 2, Reboot. WeyrCat, half-elven child of man. Curious from a young age she settled on no craft and no skill, content to learn a little of everything but mastering none. For this she was given the forest-name Preabadh Fhiaigh, Bouncing Raven. Now in her adulthood she finds herself in the middle... an injury barely healed and recovery still ahead of her. The strength she had has waned, and she feels so behind in everything that she tries to gather her old hobbies an...

(Under Construction - 2013 July 29) NOTE: The figures and milestones below have been modified  from the walking milestones published on EowynChallenge.net . These figures are for my personal log and preening. Please visit EowynChallenge to see the original challenges and join the Yahoo! group "Walk to Rivendell". THE HOBBIT: 397 miles : Travel with Bilbo from Bag End to Rivendell. (2012Jul24-Oct15) 697 Miles : Travel with Bilbo from Rivendell to Lonely Mountain. (2013Jan01-July16) THE LORD OF THE RINGS: 61 miles : Go from Hobbiton to Rivendell. - (458-397=61. Completing difference). - IP 462 miles: Set out with the Fellowship from Rivendell to Lothlorien. 389 miles: Travel through Moria and down the Anduin from Lothlorien to Rauros Falls. 355 miles: Follow the path of Merry and Pippin from Rauros to Isengard. 484 miles: Follow the path of Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli from Rauros to Isengard. 470 miles: Follow Frodo and Sam on the quest from Rauros to Mt. Doo...