X-Co skiing and teaching high school seniors about Jack

Took a lesson at Lebanon Hills Regional Park on an unseasonably warm February Sunday.  The snow was like mashed potatoes.  It was fun.  I learned some stuff.

Could defnitely incorporate hours of X-Co skiing into BDC next December if the weather and snow cover permit. 

I'm also pretty hooked on hot yoga on Saturday mornings!  Went today, and it was relaxing and sweaty and awesome.  My back and biceps are sore and it felt really good to stretch and warm up.

This week, on Thursday, my wonder dog is getting a knee replacement due to a severed CCL.  She is currently a three-legged dog.  This will require some serious dog rehab for 8-10 weeks.  I guess Mable won't be running with me in March when the snow clears.

Burnsville Seniors in science class and science club were interesting and good audiences.  I got to talk a little bit about Jack LaLanne.  I talked a lot about whole foods, drinking tap water, and moving one's body every day.  I also brought a live chicken, and she ran around the classrooms and was a good sport. 

Every classroom knew something about Jack ("the juice guy?") and every classroom had heard of P90X ("my _____ fill in the blank ____ is doing that!").  The teacher assigned a journal entry requiring the students to ask themselves what might they change in their diet and exercize, should they, and to ponder what they'd eaten in the prior seven days.  Woo Hoo!  

A day of fasting

I said I'd fast if the Packers won the Super Bowl, and so that's what I did yesterday.  I also wore black.

My calves were still sore from JJs on Friday.  My lack of gall bladder and over-consumption of lemon buttercream frosting gave me liver pain.  My back hurt from riding in a car too long,  or maybe it was JJs or maybe being 41 and whiney.

Whatever.  Yesterday was a day set aside for not doing things.  I actively not ate and not worked out.  Both rare.

Today was a great day of diet discipline and gratitude.  I'm actually glad I didn't have to eat a Roethlisburger (a beef burger topped with Italian sausage, fried egg and cheese UGH) which would also make me acutely wish for a gall bladder. 

I'm going to the high school on Monday to talk to four classrooms of science students about food choices and my evolution of eating recognizable whole foods.

Jumping Jacks

Baked a sinfully good lemon cake last night for Larry Klosner's 92nd birthday party and while it was cooling, I did a trial run of my jumping jack challenge.  I downloaded an app on my Blackberry that saves workout notes and has a timer, started the stopwatch, and started counting.  It's hard to count that high while doing JJs.

I was determined to do 1033 jumping jacks non-stop, no matter how long that took me.  I allowed a natural bend at my elbow, but did touch my fingertips above my head every time.  This is good aerobic work and apparently rockin' for one's calves, too.

No problem completing.  Time limit, to remind the reader, is under 23 minutes because Jack did his 1033 push-ups on his 42nd birthday in 23 minutes.  My first try took me 15.25.

Check these kids out, though: 
http://chandlerrecords.blogspot.com/2007/10/most-jumping-jacks-in-one-minute.html

Some kid named Maddeline did 112 JJs in one minute.  Go Maddy.  I'm inspired all over again. 

She can do other challenges, too.  Here she is again--

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Longest Hula Hoop

Record: Longest Hula Hoop Time
Name: Maddeline Brady
Date: Oct. 2 2007

On October second Maddeline Brady was at the Chandler school, in front of the Middle school library and hula hooped for 14 minutes and 10 seconds using a standard red hula hoop. Her witnesses were Mrs. Stevenson, Kobe, and Joshua. Maddie reported that her arms got tired.

 

 

Dang, I aint even got a standard red hula hoop!