Advantages
One of the advantages of being a father -- besides Father's Day -- is my kids occasionally teach me lessons. Or illustrate that the spouse and I did something right as we raised them.
We afforded both girls the opportunity to play sports as they grew up; Ann Arbor's Rec & Ed department does an excellent job, providing a wide ranges of activities and athletics. Older daughter gravitated to volleyball and softball, and younger daughter followed in her footsteps. Which brings younger daughter to the point where she's entering high school this fall, and starting conditioning for the coming volleyball season.
Her club season finished two weekends ago, and she spent the last week in Chicago for her eighth grade class trip. So she feels as if she's a little behind in the conditioning, even though she's continued to practice and play with a group of girls from Pioneer. Her sister is conditioning with her, helping her figure out how to perform some of the drills, and so far the experience is a good one; they both giggled until they started rolling on the floor.
Part of the fitness log younger daughter was given includes weekly running goals, starting with a half-mile distance the first week, three-quarters the second, and a mile the third, which was last week. Before tryouts, the coach wants the players able to run three miles in 30 minutes. Basically, a 5k run. Luckily, younger daughter had to do a lot of walking last week in Chicago, including some 3-mile distances, so she already knows she's capable of making it.
Since I'm a Biggest Loser/Jillian Michaels fan, and know cardio and running are an integral part of any fitness routine, I've decided to take advantage of the girls working out, and join them (trail them, actually) on their runs. I can't keep up with them; my knees can't take the punishment yet. But I logged two-plus miles over the weekend, and if I keep to a daily schedule I can record more than 100 miles between now and my 47th birthday.
And since I'm planning on going to World Fantasy in late October, with a new book finished, I'm hoping such a daily routine will provide some momentum for the muse. I logged two pages over the weekend, and hope to double that total today as I hash out the opening pages on the horror thriller I've toyed with the past few months.
Project: Sacrifices (working title)
New Words: 500
Total Word Count: 500
Goal: 125,000 words
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Figured out the beginning, losing a character while gaining another. Added some complications with the new character. Figured out how to stop dumping info.
500 / 125000 words. 0% done!
We afforded both girls the opportunity to play sports as they grew up; Ann Arbor's Rec & Ed department does an excellent job, providing a wide ranges of activities and athletics. Older daughter gravitated to volleyball and softball, and younger daughter followed in her footsteps. Which brings younger daughter to the point where she's entering high school this fall, and starting conditioning for the coming volleyball season.
Her club season finished two weekends ago, and she spent the last week in Chicago for her eighth grade class trip. So she feels as if she's a little behind in the conditioning, even though she's continued to practice and play with a group of girls from Pioneer. Her sister is conditioning with her, helping her figure out how to perform some of the drills, and so far the experience is a good one; they both giggled until they started rolling on the floor.
Part of the fitness log younger daughter was given includes weekly running goals, starting with a half-mile distance the first week, three-quarters the second, and a mile the third, which was last week. Before tryouts, the coach wants the players able to run three miles in 30 minutes. Basically, a 5k run. Luckily, younger daughter had to do a lot of walking last week in Chicago, including some 3-mile distances, so she already knows she's capable of making it.
Since I'm a Biggest Loser/Jillian Michaels fan, and know cardio and running are an integral part of any fitness routine, I've decided to take advantage of the girls working out, and join them (trail them, actually) on their runs. I can't keep up with them; my knees can't take the punishment yet. But I logged two-plus miles over the weekend, and if I keep to a daily schedule I can record more than 100 miles between now and my 47th birthday.
And since I'm planning on going to World Fantasy in late October, with a new book finished, I'm hoping such a daily routine will provide some momentum for the muse. I logged two pages over the weekend, and hope to double that total today as I hash out the opening pages on the horror thriller I've toyed with the past few months.
Project: Sacrifices (working title)
New Words: 500
Total Word Count: 500
Goal: 125,000 words
Things Accomplished in Fiction: Figured out the beginning, losing a character while gaining another. Added some complications with the new character. Figured out how to stop dumping info.
500 / 125000 words. 0% done!