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The month of May… This will probably be my quietest month of the year, so hopefully we can get some stuff done. Quests Strength Quests Go to the gym! 12 times Dexterity Quests Yoga 6 times! Stamina Quests Swim 12 times! Constitution Quests Get 7 hours of sleep for 20 of the days. Wisdom Quests Read for at least 30 minutes a day. Charisma Quests Write 4 blog posts. Academy Quests Nutrition: Finish Your Food Log Complete and Outdoor Workout A Hiking We Will Go – Beginner Complete 10 Knee Push-ups 25 Bodyweight Squats Walk a 10k (6.2 miles) Go Swimming 3 Times in a Week Embrace Your Inner Noob Co-op Mode Take a 30 Minute Walk/Hike on a New Trail Swim 100 Meters Without Stopping Complete 25 Consecutive Bodyweight Squats Meditate for 10 Minutes Attend a Yoga Class Try a Guided Meditation Try a New Yoga Style Meditate for 30 Minutes Meditate 5 Days in One Week Attend Class 3 Times in One Week Meditate 10 Days in a Row Hike with a Friend Locate a Geocache with GPS Learn to Use a Compass Go for a 30 Minute Hike Go for an Hour-Long Hike Visit a Historical Landmark in Your Community Visit an Outdoor Landmark in Your Community Take a Snorkeling Class Find an Urban Destination Without Step-by-Step Instructions Take a 30 Minute Walk/Hike on a New Trail Go for a 3-Hour Hike Find a Geocache and Sign the Log/Replace the Item Swim in a Natural Body of Water Paddle a Canoe Find and Outdoor Destination Without Step-by-Step Instructions Visit a Historical Landmark in Another Community Visit an Outdoor Landmark in Another Community Go Snorkeling in a Natural Body of Water Take a SCUBA Class Navigate a Walk Using a Compass and Map Find 3 Geocaches and Find a Geocache and Sign the Logs/Replace the Items Navigate a Hike Using a Compass and Map I know there’s a lot of Academy Quests but I just went through and these are some I’d like to focus on for the entire Summer. As with my last challenge, the Academy Quests are subject to change. Leveling and Statistics if Finished Level Up to 2 STR 2 || DEX 1 || STA 2 || CON 2 || WIS 2 || CHA 1 Time for take two!

HI GUYS! I SUCKED LAST CHALLENGE! As in, I started off well, then kind of disappeared off the face of the planet and spent a month living off baked potatoes and cheese and apple pie. Surprise, now I feel a bit cack! But ah, the first time I look at NF in almost a whole month and it's the day after a new challenge starts. Good timing. Missed you guys, but I have this thing where if I haven't spoken to people in a while I feel guiltier and guiltier about not speaking and end up too embarrassed to speak, so, er, sorry. So I think last time I bit off way more than I could chew, and I'm going to simplify things a lot this challenge. Would have been nice, probably, to still be blazing away at Tough Mudder training and to be close to finishing C25K, but that was too much and it knocked me way back. Challenge Goals: 1) Don't eat crap (+5 CON): - Chocolate, cake, nachos, white bread, things that are clearly mostly sugar or grease or filler are defined as crap. - Everything counts as crap if it's more than an appropriate portion: 2 portions of cheese is crap, 5 portions of fruit is great, a second bowl of chilli is crap. - Things that are dairy are counted as crap (unless they're lactose free and thus unable to make my everything hurt). 2) Exercise three times a week, choosing from the following list (+2 STR, +1 DEX, +2 STA): - Go swimming for an hour - Walk to or from work (2.8 miles) - Do a yoga video (My achilles tendons are being really funny, so I'm not going to risk things that aren't gentle until they stop being really funny) 3) Get fresh air (+2 CON): - Outside. For at least a couple of hours every weekend. Ideally while doing something physical. I'm going litter picking this weekend on the beach, which would be a good example of this. Goal is in order to give myself a feeling of having done something with my weekends. Life Goal: Basically lifting this from ASOIAF, but: List three interesting things that you didn't know the day before (+3 WIS). Has to be to do with marine biology. Has to be actually interesting, and not just "kinds of worms you can preserve with 4% formalin". Good to be back. As an aside, I am so happy it's Autumn. Summer was way too hot for me. I am planning Halloween already. Not sure how I'm going to top last year's dwarven adventurer costume, which can be seen in part below at Christmas for reasons beyond my understanding. That took so much yarn.