Saturday, November 4, 2017

50 cubed challenge

This year I decided to do a 50 cubed challenge. 50 things 50 times over 50 days leading up to my 50th birthday. I am now past halfway, so I guess that makes it 25 cubed right now?

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.

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

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