planes, bridges, and automobiles

Another entry that has nothing to do with exercise. I've spent the better part of the last five days in the car, shuttling people to airports in three states. I have been eating poorly and have drank too much caffeinated soda to keep me awake. Things must change or I will be the really fat girl, not walking, by spring.

January 1st I decided I was going to do one new thing a month. It was prompted by an article on a local "polar bear" event.  I thought it was a doable new years resolution.

Wrong.

I'm sure I did something new in January and February, but who knows what. Wouldn't I have been the most motivated then? But the calendar offers no clues. My old blog, Tall and Fat Tales (my old blog) probably would have netted clues, but that died in July, I think. I didn't copy it. Boy am I dumb.

In March I took two different walking classes. (Hey wait...the blog has walking references....it is relevant. Cool.) First Strides, a 12-week program that I hated. That adventure was chronicled in my old T&FT blog, as well as my 3-day blog. The other was a really cool one-day seminar called BreathWalk. It's run locally by Walk For All Seasons. It kind of combines yoga breathing and walking. I couldn't do it. It's like walking, chewing gum, and rubbing your head counterclockwise all at the same time. But I might try again in 2010. Both events I found while looking for new walking challenges in the dead of winter.

In April I became a training walk leader for the 3-Day and the Avon. (Does that count?). In May I did yoga on the stairs of the Philly art museum for Breast Cancer research in memory of my friend Karen, and in June I went to visit the worlds largest Big Mac outside of Pittsburgh. Okay, that's a stretch, but I did pay extra money to go an additional exit on the turnpike! In July, or maybe August, I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge for the first time, explored Brooklyn by food, and also hiked the High-Line Park. (that was in T&FT also. Drats!) In August, I started to keep my doodles and started my doodling blog a little while later. In October I did two big Breast Cancer walks and in November I took a cheese making class. A fair average, if I could think of what happened in January, and February.

That is until December.

This week I had a ton of firsts. I drove in Manhattan (okay, at 4 am. Herald Square is gorgeous at Christmas time with the lights on), and thru the Lincoln Tunnel (again, 4 am), and over the Verrazano Bridge three times. Twice at night. I went to JFK Airport twice, both in the dark. It makes Newark and Philly look like the LV Airport. Going North instead of South on Rt 404 today had me go over the Bayonne Bridge and the Pulaski Skyway at morning rush hour.

And I saw the best road sign ever at 5:45 am on the Staten Island Expressway. "NYC GRIDLOCKED. USE MASS TRANSIT."

So in 2010 I'll try again. And this time, I'll write down the new things. Maybe as a postscript in this blog.