It's not always the case, but sometimes the blog is not updated because I am not doing anything particularly noteworthy. I have not, for instance, gone anywhere (my >2 months without air travel ends this weekend, when I go to Thunder Bay to visit Sebbie and his mama). Here is a summary of what I *have* been doing.
1. Work.
2. Buying stuff. Like a new bike, which I have yet to put together because we have so much snow and I've been snowshoeing and skiing through the Brittain Tract. Who has time to fiddle with a bike that she wouldn't want to take outside until there is no more salt on the roads anyway?
3. Planning a bike trip for the new bike. Sort of. As in, I booked some plane tickets. End of planning.
4. Freaking out that I'm probably not fit enough to go on a real bike tour. Fitness is relative. I'm going to be doing this trip with Kevin. Relative to Kevin, everybody is an out of shape blob. This, combined with my dissatisfaction with my general blob-ness, led to:
5. Using my posh gym membership more in the last two months than the previous six months combined, and
6. Obsessing about the stats that go with the fitness thing. For example, since January 1:
Time spent in spinning classes: 30 hours
Time spent running on a treadmill: 6 hours
Time spent running outside: 2.5 hours
Time spent on random boring cardio equipment: 3.75 hours
Time spent skiing or snowshoeing: 18 hours (the gym gets really boring)
Time spent wandering around to get away from the office at lunch: 21 hours
The bike class thing is getting old. I work far more in one of those classes than I do doing the equivalent time outside, on a bike with moving wheels, but I most definitely prefer the latter. But I no longer feel unfit and blobular. Except relative to Kevin.
7. Scheming on things that will eventually generate blog content of the passport stamp variety, but I'll tell you about that when the time comes.
8. Completing Advanced Wilderness First Aid, with CWMT.