It's Official

Yep, that's right. You can now classify me as out of my mind. :) I have just registered today for the WAM 2008 bike tour. Wow! All I can say is that I'm excited and nervous. I mean 300 miles. I was just on the site to see what the route would be and here's what was posted: Start in Traverse City and ride to Big Rapids. Day 2 Ride to DeWitt. Day 3 Finish at Chelsea. Ok, doesn't sound that bad right? Then I looked at the state map. Holy COW! Definately nervous. I think it's time to change my workout stratagy which hasn't been much lately. Definately going to have to get the aerobics in so that I'm not breathing like I'm a smoker after about 10 minutes of working out. lol I'm so excited too! Can you imagine?

I've registerd with my anonomyous friend :) as the team 1st Century Riders. If you're reading this, we could really use your help in donations. You can click on the donations link on the left. Remember, it's to give children that are terminally ill something joyous, hope. Every little bit counts!

A Big Thank You

I just had to dedicate this post to BJB. You are awesome! Why? Because you are always helping others out!

Since deciding to try this bike tour you have not only been emotionally supportive, but you go the extra mile and try to help me raise money for it too. That is above and beyond. I want to thank you for doing that for me. Like I said AWESOME!

Always Something...

Sometimes the best intentions just get squashed with other things that seem to take priority. Sometimes it's that piece of chocolate just calling my name. Maybe it's that really wonderful dinner that I had at the restaurant that was loaded with God knows how many calories. Yummy! The extra hour of sleep I felt I needed. The projects that get in the way. Somehow these things just keep sneaking their way back into my day. How it happens is sometimes a mystery. But the fact of the matter is it does happen. My motivation needs a swift kick in the butt!

Once again my biking was put on hold. Why this time you ask? (I bet the suspense is killing you!LOL) Landscaping! Yep! That's it! The thing is I started this project last weekend and what happens? It's dragged out because, you guessed it, other things get in the way of me finishing it. I am mostly finished with it now. Just have to transplant of few things. Then it's onto working on the back porch. The good thing is that I am still finding the time for karate and yoga, or some sort of aerobic activity. Now if I could just get that biking in...I'll keep you posted.:)

Been A While...

I haven't been on my bike in weeks! It's pathetic really. But I am happy to say that last week and this past weekend I was able to go for three different bike rides. Not as long as I would have like becuase the kids only tolerate so much. All total I probably only biked about twenty miles. I'm happy with that. I guess I figure if at least I got out there then it's all good!

I know that I attend karate pretty regularly but we are always training of various things. Because it gets switched up there are times some of the things we train in don't happen for a while. Bow form would be one of those things that I haven't done in a while. So Monday was the first night in about 7 weeks that I have picked up my bow to train. It's not like I was great at it to begin with and Monday when I picked it up I was rusty on top of that. Let me tell you that whirling around, striking and blocking with a six foot stick is harder than it looks. I have the bruises to show for it! :) Becuase of striking and blocking techniques I now sport bruises on my left arm (about 4 inches in diameter), my right shoulder (about 3 inches in diameter), and my right knee (about 2 inches in diameter). If you haven't guessed it, my problem is in my control! lol I need some so that I don't beat the hell out of myself! Needless to say I took the night off on Wednesday.

Which leads to the other activity I haven't done in a while: hiking. Now, ordinarily I am not sore from hiking but that is when I do it more often and am not backpacking a kid. I realize my little one may only be 23 lbs. but after an hour hiking up and down sand dunes two consecutive days in a row, I'm a little sore. Not my legs so much but my shoulders. Oh well...

I can't complain though, I have gotten three really good workouts in in three days. It feels awesome, if not a little sore. So even though I haven't done these things in a while I do plan to do them more often.

On a side note, I just started practicing with my nunchucks. Quite exciting really! Wish me luck that I don't beat myself up to much. Though I have to say, so far so good.

Weapons

Wow, can you believe it? They actually gave me a new weapon at karate tonight! Not that I know anything on how to use it. I will probably beat myself up more than anything else. LOL I am excited though- my first pair of nunchucks. How cool is that? I already have a bow that I am finally learning to use without injuring myself as much. Not proficient at it yet but I hope to be some day. It won't be too long before I am training on the nunchucks so I'm geeked. I am sure that I will sport some nice bruises to show for it too. :)

I also refereed my first katarte match tonight. I sucked but that was ok, it's all about learning and they were trying not to get me too confused. All good! Just had to share!

Yes to Yoga!

I use to do yoga all the time when I was working full time. Don't know what happened to that dedication. I must have lost it somewhere between work and having kids. :) So the other day I decided that I need to get back into doing it again. I know my body felt a lot better when I was doing it all the time. Especially my back. I have to say that doing it for the first time in who-knows-when it went really well. I found out I still have a lot of flexibility and can do most of the poses fairly decent. I'm excited about that cause I thought I had lost a lot of that by not doing it for so long. Not only that I thought my knee would bother me to much to do it again. But that wasn't the case. It felt pretty good. I could tell that I worked out the next day due to the soreness of some of my muscles. Forgot I had some of them. :) But got my mat out the next day and did it again. The only thing that bites is that I have to get out of bed and doing the workout at 6am. Oh well, it's worth it. Here's to yoga. Now only if I could get that darn bike ride in it would be perfect. lol

The cake did it!

Ok, so I'm trying to be good about what I eat and getting in some exercise. I have been doing some weights and walking to keep me moving. And karate is twice a week. But this past weekend we had a birthday party for the kids. The kids had a great time and lots of people came. It was nice. However, the following day I think I had the effects of too much sugar! :) Is that possible? Yes, not that I want to admit it since I am a sugar freak. Cake. It was yummy, frosting covered, yellow/chocolate cake. I have to say that it tasted great! But with the cake there was lemonade, punch, pizza and pop, also. I'm sure that the sugar from the drinks and empty carbs fromt he pizza didn't help. The next day I was tired and had no motivation what-so-ever. Not for a walk or weights. Probably because I had 2 pieces of cake instead of one. Definately the cake. lol