Well Janet and I both exceeded our fitness goals for February. Year-to-date, she's walked 687,041 steps, and I've walked 434,775 steps and ridden my bike for 805 minutes. The biking has been a lot more interesting on the few days the snow has melted. Janet's planning to keep on walking in order to meet her 4-million step goal for the year. I'm bowing out of the challenge for March, because I much prefer doing my exercise outdoors, and our weather is still too unpredictable.
However, I was able to go out with the bike club on Friday for a short ride to the Fika coffee shop. I think all of us are suffering from too many Christmas cookies, because it was a struggle pedaling up the last hill. There's still a bit of snow here and there along the trail, but it was really nice to sit out on the patio in the sun for a change. Notice that all the men are wearing shorts. That seems to be a really macho thing in Colorado - if the temperature is above 40, put on shorts even if you're wearing 6 layers on top.
I checked off 2 items on my Winter bucket list this week. When I was in San Diego, I bought myself a souvenir t-shirt from Balboa Park. Then when I got home, I put together a 500-piece puzzle. The Senior Center has a whole library of puzzles you can borrow, so I picked out one with a lot of color in the picture. I didn't think I'd have the patience for one of those monochromatic ones.
For my Something Old, Something New challenge for March, I found a book in the library about toast. That probably seems a bit weird, but they really have some tasty recipes and I've been looking for something simple to have for lunches. I thought I'd give this a try.
