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Episode 2 of The Journey for the Fastest Known Time. Where will it take us? Lets ask Socrates! Goal #1 - "There are no ordinary moments" Socrates has Dan Millman meditate for what is described as hours, than days, searching for something inspiring, something moving. He tries many times and than comes up with "there are no ordinary moments." When I'm running I usually have my phone tracking where I go, and constantly providing noise with background music. The music seems to help, but the tracking doesn't seem to yield a lot of changes. For this challenge runkeeper will be kept in stopwatch mode, and will only track the time passed. Distance will have no meaning. Each week = +10 points! CON = +3 Goal #2 - “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.†Meditation is the cultivation of the mind, as running has been the cultivation of my body. I've tried meditation before, but what if I approached easing into meditation the same way I approached running? For this challenge meditation will look like this - 2 days - 10 minutes per day Each day this is done = +5 points! 1 day - 20 minutes Each day this is done = +15 points! WIS = +4 Goal #3 - Running with Joy Well, not running but biking in this case. The point was for him to practice his breathing and staying in the moment. To help me practice my breathing, Instead of a long run I am going to be doing a long bike ride once per week, as long as my running schedule would include 1 long day. Each week this is done when it is supposed to be done = +25 points! STA = +3 So what does that look like? Week 1 - 2 x 30 minutes running 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Week 2 - 2 x 30 minutes running 1 x 30 minutes climb 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Week 3 - 2 x 45 minutes running 1 x 2 hour biking 3 x convict 2 x 30 minutes climbing 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Week 4 - 2 x 45 minutes running 1 x 2 hour biking 3 x convict 2 x 30 minutes climbing 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Week 5 - 2 x 1 hour running 1 x 2.5 hour biking 3 x convict 2 x 30 minutes climbing 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Week 6 - 2 x 30 minutes running 1 x 45 minutes biking 2 x convict 2 x 10 minutes meditating 1 x 30 minutes meditating Each week will be evaluated with points. If there are multiple parts to a post, each one will be evaluated seperately. At the end of the challenge, those points will be added up to see how my character has leveled up!

I'm back! ..... well to the rebellion. It's actually my first time posting with the scouts. I figured that since the majority of the activities I was doing were endurance based (running, biking, swimming) shouldn't I be with the scouts? So here I am! At the end of august is my first spartan race of the year - but that's not the end of my fitness journey. After my spartan races this year, I'm switching gears towards more personal challenges. So that's what I'm going to focus this challenge on. My goal next year - attempt to break the fkt for the presidential traverse. Goal #1 - hit the trails once per week If you've never heard of the presidential traverse, it's a traverse of the presidential mountains, or most of them, in new Hampshire. That's some serious mountains. Most my running for the last 6 months have been on the road and my body needs to adjust. 6 weeks = +4 STA 4-5 weeks = +3 STA 3 weeks = +1 STA Goal #2 - CLIMB THOSE STAIRS The advice I give to anyone wanting to hike more mountains? It's the elevation, not the miles that will kill you. I looked at the GPS track from the current record holder, and the first 3.83 miles are all uphill, with almost half of the elevation change for the whole course! There's 1 mountain near me, so either hit that mountain, or hit the stair mill at the gym for 45 minutes (secretly, this would be my ideal time for that initial elevation gain) 6 weeks of hills = +4 STR 4-5 weeks = +3 STR 3 weeks = +1 STR Goal #3 - condition like a convict I ran into the book "convict conditioning" and really like the exercises. So two days a week, I'm going to pick 3 of the exercise progressions and do whatever is at my level. One of these must be the pull up progression. 3x for 6 weeks = +3 CHA 5 weeks = +2 CHA 4 weeks = _1 CHA Life goal - clean up my diet It's time to get back on track. I dropped out of the last challenge because I got complacent and I apparently felt like proving it's possible to be an unhealthy vegetarian. Each week I will make a healthy meal that is new to me, and EAT IT. 6 new meals = +4 CON 4-5 new meals = +3 CON 3 meals = +1 CON