I’ve been going to the gym and have discovered that I have now been in this fitness program for 9 months! I have booked my 9 month fitness test for next week and of course it is on the dreaded treadmill again!
For every fitness test I have to study. I am sure you wonder how do you study for a fitness test? It’s on a treadmill so what can you bone up on? My studying includes actually using the treadmill. The only time I really ever use the treadmill is for my test or to practice up before my test to see if I can actually do it.
I guess by now you have figured out that the treadmill is not one of my favorite pieces of equipment. So why is that? I can tell that that I have had one of those dust bunny catching cloths hanging machines in my house and it was used very little. I do think that they are nice to have around in the winter when it is really cold outside but I find them noisy and if I am going to be on a machine I like to be able to watch a bit of TV to pass the time. It’s hard to hear over the treadmill noise unless you turn up the TV and then it is so loud that the neighbors are wondering if there is a party at my house.
Next week I will be participating in the Beta Fitness event where I will have the opportunity to read and talk about my poem. I am surprised that they would want me to do this. When I wrote the poem it was only to submit to the cook book that the Beta team will publish with the participant recipes. I am excited to participate however I think it might be an emotional experience!
I have another accomplishment I want to share. I participated in the Run for the Cure and jogged the 5 klm. I was so worried if I would be able to do this that the day before I jogged 5 klm just to see if I could do it. So 10 klm in 2 days - I feel very proud of this accomplishment. Not to mention that I was able to raise $540 for breast cancer research. I started my fund raising 4 weeks before the big day so if I had started earlier I probably could have raised quite a bit more.
There we thousands of people for the run. Dog, strollers, people running, walking, and then there were the people watching from the side lines. Some of the houses along the route had set up entertainment. One house had a live band playing and they were pretty good too! Another house had a cloths line of bras struck from one side of the street to the other that we ran under as we went by. Another house had a display of pink stuffed animals, flowers, umbrellas and cloths. Someone else has made up a funny looking mammogram machine. Everyone along the route was there to cheer us along. It was very motivating. I am really glad that I was able to participate and raise funds. I am already planning on doing this again next year for sure and hope to have some of my friends join me next time around. My friend Jane was kind enough to meet me at the finish line. It was nice to have a friend there to see my accomplishment. Thanks Jane!
October 31 I will be going to Hawaii. It’s my very first visit to Hawaii. I fly into Honolulu and will be staying there for 3 days and then in Makau for another 4 days and then fly out on Nov 7th. I am sure it will be a fun time. The first thing I asked my sister who I was going to stay with was “is there a gym near by”? When I stay in Honolulu there is a gym in the building I will be in however here I am in Makau there is no gym however maybe I can find one near by. If I can’t find one near by then I know that they is a set of stair, 37 to be exact, that I can use or perhaps I can jog. If not then I guess it is laps in the swimming pool or swimming in the ocean.
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