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When I grow up I want to be a monk - gotta kick butt at this challenge first. Big goal = get fighting fit What is fighting fit? 1) healthy I have coeliac disease (yippee!) so I have to completely avoid all gluten, this means a lot of food preparation and a lot of care when I eat food that I haven't prepared, and when I get it wrong (crosscontamination eating out - grrrrr), I'm ill for about a fortnight, then ropey for longer, so I absolutely must avoid all of the gluten. To help me do this I have a food goal of trying one new recipe a week. 2) Fit I will get do cross training to improve my fitness and my flexibiltiy and my strength The cross training is: i yoga twice a week ii Body weight training three times a week (currently in a slightly modified level 2 of the Academy BW, in the 6 weeks, get to level 4) iii Running for CV fitness (treadmill running on the same days as the BW training, and a longer outdoor run in the weekend) 3) Trained in martial arts i Kickboxing class is on a sunday (I'm a 2nd Dan in kickboxing/sport karate) ii Jujitsu classes are tuesday and thursday (hopefully there will be a grading in the next 6 weeks - if there is then my jujitsu goal is to pass my grading from orange to green belt) I will get to these classes and ideally have one or two consolidation sessions each week at home. Complicating getting fighting fit is that 3 weeks ago I ate out, and there was some gluten somewhere in the food (they sounded so much like they knew what they were doing) - so I'm still recovering from the gluten. I'm back to yoga, kickboxing and jujitsu, but my gym workouts and running haven't happened for three weeks - I'll have to build these back in a little gently. I get a C grade for doing 1/2 of the exercise listed here, a B for 2/3 and an A for anything over 3/4. Life goals Yep, that is plural, i'm sneaking a second one in..... 1) Play that bass - my day job is in science, my play job is music, can't have the play job without practise. Fail = playing less than 50% of the days, C= 50% of days, B = 2/3, A > 3/4, amazing = every day. 2) Write that paper..... Evil paper for naisty ex-boss. The work almost broke me, then last time I worked on the paper coincided with a bad break up which involved emergency services (such a soap opera!), so I have a few issues with managing to finish this work. But I have to do it. So, I promise as part of my challenge to work on the paper three times a week (wednesday, saturday and sunday), each of these sessions has to be a minimum of an hours work. An A grade = getting a draft of the paper to naisty ex-boss. A B-grade = working on it three times a week and getting it close to passing on to ne-b. A C-grade = managing most of the working on it sessions. If I get play job work (like the chance to play my bass outside my house), then this takes over from all other goals - including training the morning after - so if I have a rehearsal, then next morning is a rest morning, and I get a pass slip wrt missing evening training, but not paper writing - the paper writing then needs to transfer to another day. Wowser, this looks shockingly horrid. But I already do most of it - just not the paper writing in the evenings........... Any account-a-buddies out there for paper writing?