Healthy Twists

Do you have a Fitness Bucket List? I realized the other day I do.

I was driving home from work and thinking about yoga because I had upcoming plans to go to a class. I love yoga, I really, really do. I’m bad at it though, like pretty much every else I try to do that requires physical ability. I am not exactly bred from athlete’s stock, you know? I just don’t let that stop me (usually).

Anyway, back to yoga. I was thinking about Crow Pose. I have never even come close to Crow Pose but I still try when it comes up in class. I know it’s not happening and yet I still try, because I feel like one day, it’ll just click and I’ll learn the Crow secret and then I’ll be able to do it. If it’s the last thing I do, I WILL master Crow.

I have other things I’d like to do, at least once and probably many of them only once, in my lifetime. I thought about doing a “30 before 30” type list but then I realized I have three years to go and during two of those years grad school will own my life, so I’m trying hard not to set myself up for failure. But there are things I’d just like to do, sooner or later.

Fitness Bucket List

• Master Crow Pose in yoga (see above)
• Do a triathlon (I can’t really bike, swim, or run worth a darn so this would be quite a feat)
• Run a sub-30 5K (right now this sounds impossible)
• Walk in the 3 Day again, hopefully/ideally in a another city
• Go water-skiing
• Run in a RANGAR relay
• Run in the Big Sur 10-mile race (a friend made this event sound SO amazing)
• Do a chin-up
• Bench press my body weight (right now I bench, oh, maybe 60 lbs on a great day? So yeah)
• Go snowboarding (or skiing but I think snowboarding would be cooler)
• Take a kettlebell class
• Take a Cross fit class

I was going to add “hike Half Dome” and then I clicked on the Wikipedia link and decided, hell no, that’s not happening (have I ever mentioned my intense phobia of falling? Not a fear of heights mind you. Of falling. Which is why I’m a lousy hiking partner even thought I absolutely love hiking. Go figure).

In more “not wanting to set myself up for failure” news…I also want to do another half-marathon. That doesn’t go on the bucket list because I know it will happen. I’m thinking about training for one this fall/winter, but I just don’t know. Training for the half last time took a lot out of me, emotionally and physically, and with school I just don’t know if I have that in me. If I do it again I’d have to have a different attitude. (I know, with a time of 2:39 it might not appear that it was that taxing but…again, see above about this stuff being really hard for me).

I am SO out of running shape, and I was never really in great running shape to begin with. I’m going to train for a 10K turkey trot and then maybe keep up the training for the half, which is in the end of January. Part of me feels I need to lose weight and get in better overall shape before attempting another half, and the other part of me feels that if I train smart and have realistic expectations I can maybe USE the half training to feel better about myself in that regard. So, I still have to think about it, I’m leaning towards yes, but I’m scared.

Do you have a Fitness Bucket List?

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