Gym Junkie.../Marathon Goal

21.Jan.2011

I look back at my life and think of all the things that have changed or are so different now, when it changed, why, etc. I’m not just talking about the obvious from childhood to adolescent to young adult to adult, etc. changes. . . I mean, the lifestyle changes, what I do on a regular basis, etc. etc.

What I’m trying to say is I look back at my time at Purdue and see how much of a gym junkie I was. I was lucky to have that gym at Purdue. And in the early mornings when the Greek party wasn’t there to check themselves out in the mirror…J And in New Zealand how I still always made it a point to have a regular schedule at the gym I had a membership to, even with my ankle cast on. And I know if I still the opportunity to have a gym membership, I would take it and fall back into it. I would like to actually…but I don’t think Makwakwa has a gym… So, instead of being a gym junkie, I’m a…a…use-what-you-got junkie? I don’t know what to call it. I still hate push-ups, though. I don’t know how to make myself actually like them…

One of the reasons I’m writing about this (besides for the fact that it is also a form of entertainment out here in the bush) is because I want to have it written. By writing it here, in my head, I’m being held more accountable to accomplish my use-what-you-got junkie goals… J

GOAL 1: In August, in my province of Inhambane, some other volunteers have put together a marathon race down the EN 1 (The Estrada Nacional that runs through all of Mozambique). I want to complete the Inhambane Marathon in August.

GOAL 2: Improve my muscle to fat ratio… and lose weight (I don’t have a triceps caliper, and I don’t approve of the BMI index, and I don’t have a way to really do the water submersion test…so I added lose weight…which in the end doesn’t make all that much sense due to the fact that muscle weighs more than fat. I would say if my pants start falling off me, but because our dryer is the sun, and because of the heat, they stretch, so that would be called cheating…cause they are already fitting pretty loosely…)

GOAL 3: GET READY FOR MOUNT KILIMANJARO!!!!!!!!!!! That is definitely on my bucket list!

I guess you can look at these as my physical fitness/health New Year’s Resolutions. Yes, I know, I am in essence, still a gym junkie…