I've been puttering around the last couple of days at the pro level. No point going into it any deeper because what I've been doing is just like the definition above - no one notices anyway.
I keep an exercise record on a calendar at the house. Before tossing out the calendar for 2023, I added up my totals. 385 miles on the bicycle, 56 miles walking/hiking, and 6-5K events. I don't keep track of my days at the gym, but they would have been down, as were the other events due to the frozen shoulder and infected toe. I thought I would have more than 56 miles of walking and hiking. Most all of those were with a group. If I had actually trained for the 5K events, there would have been a lot more mileage. I just showed up for all of those and my performance reflected that.
Coach Jen sent me info about a 20 mile hike in 8 hours at a state park in Indiana. I camped at that park way back when and it's a nice place but it's down by Cincinnati. With the hour time difference (thanks Mitch), we'd have to leave at 3:00 AM or maybe a little earlier to get there or get a hotel room the night before the event. I don't think Jen would be willing to camp and I'm sure my wife wouldn't want us to share a room. Might have to let that one go.
I do want to do some more hiking and if I'm going to do anymore 5K events, I need to train for them. My times now are about 45 minutes, they used to be more like 33 minutes. I don't need to try to get down to that pace again, but 40 minutes would be do-able. I really don't need to be competitive at anything anymore, I just need to stay fit.
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I was puttering around so much yesterday I didn't feel like doing the main chores I was set out to do.
it's like when you make a pot of coffee but first wind up clean the entire coffee maker in the sink for 15 minutes first. then to tired to do the chores.
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