Vacation Prep (week 1)
A long time ago I set off on my own to go hiking in Nepal. I did very little training and even less research and came up totally unprepared. In my twenties that was fine, there were a lot of challenges and some stupid mistakes but I made it through. Now, a bit older, my husband and I are about to embark on another long, high-altitude trek and this time I’ve decided to do a little preparation.
For the week:
EXERCISE
Stairs: Got up early two days and ran stairs at Minnehaha falls (between 44-48 floors) - legs were SUPER Sore, I have a long term goal of 100 floors a session.
Biking: 28 miles. I only got two bike commutes in because of the rain. OMG it rains here a lot! The MN climate is getting wetter and wetter I swear.
Push-ups: abysmal (ugh, this is embarrassing, 10 girl pushups the whole week)
Crunches:Â even more abysmal (maybe 10 the whole week)
SPANISH PRACTICE
Podcast: I just finished episode 13 of CoffeeBreak Español. It’s all been review for me so far, I do have a bit of Spanish under my belt but I’ve still gotten something out of each episode i.e. that five hundred in Spanish is ‘quinientos‘ not ‘cincocientos‘ - which is what I always assumed it was. (side note, my husband and I love the theme song)
App: Duolingo - I am on a 29 day streak and on ‘numbers’ which I could test out of but I like to review things.
Conversations with my Spanish speaking co-worker:Â One, it was 5 minutes long and not great.
