Anyway the tasks range from silly or easy like eating 50 cookies to challenging but easily doable like 50 climbs and so on. I am in ok shape at half way, although there are a few tasks that I am woefully behind and a few more that might be hard for me to actually complete. Since one of the goals of this is to challenge myself but not spend a lot of time doing drudgery I might have to change a few of the tasks. (like changing gaining 50,000 ft of elevation to combining gain and loss). So far I have completed a few more than 5 of the tasks (biking 50 miles, eating 50 olives, 50 sun salutations, 50 laps on a slackline, 50 minutes on a slackline, and 50 slackline poses, reading 50 chapters... ) Maybe a few more, some of my record keeping is a little haphazard and some of it is carefully recorded on my whiteboard or on a computer spreadsheet. Some I am just doing once a day - like flossing.
I also need to come up with a little under 10 more tasks to do. If I end up short I'll head over to the fitness area at the local park and start working my way through the exercises. If you have any brilliant ideas I am open to suggestions.
In other news I've done a few more peaks (E ridge of Humphreys, Mt Baldwin, and Red Slate and failed on Fishhook Arete on Mt Russel (too cold and windy)) but now I am switching to rock climbing and bouldering. As always I seem a bit weak and out of shape, but it is coming back, and besides I have about 30 more climbs and boulder problems to do (plus more for the 50 V points).
This weekend is the AAC Bishop Fall Highball Classic so tomorrow I'll be doing some trail work or cleanup - I suspect I'll be able to finish ppicking up my 50 pieces of trash - but I'll keep picking it up anyway.
It is a sort of silly and arbitrary way to celebrate what is a pretty arbitrary round number of years since I was born. I guess it is past halfway unless I live to be over 100. So far so good.
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| some of my 50x50x50x50 challenge record keeping |
Update - I finished (mostly) the challenge. Check out the report here:
http://www.electricant.net/grundyman/50x4.html
