Random Community Challenge Day!

[muck_a_luck]

Hey, EED community!

Welcome to our first ever random community challenge! Today is for exercising! Also for reporting in! Our record is two days in early October when 15 people reported. Let's see if we can break that today! We're currently 94 subscribers and 82 members stong. We can blast that 15 out of the water!

If you are posting for the first time, or new to the community, please review the community's standards, below.


1. Mod (that's me!) will post a Daily Check In post, for those who prefer to note their daily activities in response to a prompt. Please only place exercise comments here.

2. All members are encouraged to post daily independent posts about their activities, if they prefer that to a prompt.

3. Please place any NON-EXERCISE comments in independent update posts and behind a cut. Some people are sensitive to discussion of diet and nutrition. That is integral to many people's exercise activities, so I want members to be able to discuss that, but for those who are here strictly to log exercise, I would like them to be able to avert their eyes.

4. Everyone is encouraged to introduce themselves, discuss their exercise goals, and post updates on their activities. "I finally made it to running a mile!" or "I kicked up into handstand today!" are updates that we all want to hear about and share! Please put long posts and entries involving diet and nutrition behind a cut, though.

5. Aside from intro posts and injury announcements, please try to include an exercise update in every post.

Comments

[yvi]

Ran in the morning: (a round is 500 meters in this) 1.5 rounds run, 0.75 rounds walk, 1 round run, 0.25 rounds walk, 0.5 rounds run. 1,500 meters run.

Later in the day i shall do some upper body strength. First: lunch :)

[alexseanchai]

There are PEOPLE HERE. I have no yoga space because there are PEOPLE HERE and the basement is where the GameCube lives and also where my cousins slept so there are three cots with three cousins and two sisters sitting on them either watching or playing GameCube in the space where I do my yoga.

But I will be up and down stairs constantly today, so if I don't escape the bedlam to go run around the neighborhood screaming like a madwoman, this can be my check-in.

ETA: We cleared out the library to put my aunt's cot in and now the cot has been put away and the crap has not been put back yet and there is NOBODY IN THE LIBRARY. *yogas* I feel so much better now.

[just_ann_now]

There are PEOPLE HERE. I have no yoga space because there are PEOPLE HERE

Hee! I had that experience this week, too; couldn't yoga at my regular time cause I would have been doing it on top of my daughter's head. I had to yoga mid-evening, which was also hard to arrange around all the eating. *whine whine whine*

*yogas* I feel so much better now.
I bet you do! Sometimes we just need to work around our blessings.

[alexseanchai]

And there are still PEOPLE HERE so I'm giving serious consideration to escaping to the library and yogaing some more. (shut up firefox that is totally a word)

[hyperbole]

I've been on a nice hour-long walk in the first snow of the year! It was wonderful, if not the most exercise-y thing I've ever done...

[rydra_wong]

Morning yoga (abbreviated because I was running late), then bouldering -- half an hour on real granite in the freezing cold, followed by a hasty escape to the indoor climbing wall for an hour and a half more. It was good to do the outdoor stuff, but brrr.

[just_ann_now]

Meditation workshop this morning (I thought it was going to have some yoga in it since it was led by my yoga teacher); Rodney Yee this afternoon. "Too bad you wasted your morning," my husband said, but it wasn't wasted, it was a good tune-up for my meditation practice which I really, really need to devote more attention to. And I got to tour a really beautiful, brand-new green-construction dojo/yoga studio only ten minutes from my house! So not a wasted morning at all.

[resolute]

Elliptical at the Y, then cleaned the house and am now setting up the tree. That stuff totally counts. :)

[codyne]

Spent about an hour this morning hauling firewood from the woodpile to the shed and the porch rack.

The weather turned bad early this year, and the road's been too muddy to run on, so I've abandoned my plans to run a half marathon in December. I got up to 11 miles before rain and snow and ice got in the way. Looks like I'll have plenty of wood chopping and snow shoveling to keep me busy this winter, though.

[semielliptical]

Yoga in the afternoon, 40 minutes.

[mixofsun]

20 minutes walk, then moving a bunch of furniture around.

[bewize]

I'm late, but I ran 2.2 miles yesterday!

[alphaviolet]

Oops, I didn't see this yesterday. I went to a Zumba class.