A Big Audacious Walking Goal

I have a Big Audacious Goal, and it has nothing to do with writing. This goal is for walking, and walking like I used to.

My husband thinks my BAG is too big, because what I’d really like to do is walk up to Grey’s Truck Stop for lunch. That’s eight miles round trip. I am a long way from there — a long way. Right now, my dizziness and lack of stamina gets me one time around the block.

SMART goals — the “R” stands for realistic, and my goal is not at the present moment realistic. Making it realistic would mean cutting down the distance to goal. So maybe a more realistic goal would be walking a mile, or even a half mile.

But one mile is not a Big or Audacious goal. Richard agrees on this, which means he finally understands BAGs. So the BAG is to Gray’s and back, and there will be all sorts of intermediary goals, such as twice around the block and so on.

Now all I have to do is start consistently walking around the block.

Most Fun Exercise?

Daily writing prompt

What’s the most fun way to exercise?

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I don’t find most exercise fun. I was always the last one chosen for team sports in school for good reason; and I do not have the coordination to perform in individual sports. Running is likely to make me pass out, and jogging is just as bad. Lifting weights is like watching paint dry.

I like to walk. Not on a track, where one sees the same scenery over and over, but out in the nice weather, going someplace. Watching birds (although that’s slow walking). Walking in a 5K. Shopping.

I haven’t been walking in a long time due to health reasons. First, I was obese for the longest time, and now that I’m not, I want to get back into walking but am having lingering problems with weakness (from not exercising) and spells of lightheadedness. I’m trying to get to the bottom of the lightheadedness because I think I could tackle the weakness if I didn’t want to fall over all the time.

I want to walk right now, but I’m at work. I took a couple trips up and down the stairs. I guess that’s walking. Here’s hope that I can start walking, really walking, again.

If I Were a Carpenter …

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What skill would you like to learn?

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I have always wanted to learn carpentry. I think it would be a satisfying skill to have because it’s very useful. Building furniture and boxes so I didn’t have to buy them? I would love that.

My dad made me a cabinet from a packing crate and scavenged glass from old windows. It’s beautiful. I’d love to make something like that.

What’s keeping me from becoming a carpenter? Very poor proprioception. What does that mean? It means that I have very little sense of where my body is at in space. I sometimes sit down and miss the chair. I have been known to smack myself in the face. Life with poor proprioception is a bit challenging. Carpentry with poor proprioception? Tragic, because carpentry is fraught with very sharp objects, some of which whirl at high speeds.

In addition, I have poor hand-eye coordination. There’s no guarantee that saw is going to end up where I intend it to go. I’m likely to run it over the hand I don’t know where it is (see above).

Therefore, my choice not to learn carpentry is an exercise in self-preservation. I like my limbs where they are, thank you.