You can stop pedaling. That bike’s not moving.
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And a new personal best is born. Slowly but surely, I’m getting there.
HabitRPG | Gamify Your Life
I’m sure almost everyone who’s seen my blog is familiar with Zombies, Run! and The Walk. They’re both excellent games that help you get up off the coach and move around.The only limitation I would say these games might have is that they’re best suited to walking, running or cycling.
I wanted to share some info on a resource that’s a bit more broad it in its approach to hacking your life. HabitRPG is designed to essentially help you evolve by turning your life into a video game.
To get started, you visit the website create a character and then decide what you want your goals to be. If you look at my character and his tasks, you see I’m concerned with writing, cycling and fitness.
Tasks can be set up in three categories:
Habits: Things you want to do more often (or things you want to stop doing).
Dailies: Things you want to do every day or once a week, etc.
To Dos: Longer term goals you want to work toward.
Complete a task and you get gold and experience. You level up and can buy better equipment with it. Fail to complete a task and you lose hit points. Your character can die. It happens. But sometimes, that’s the little kick I need to get me up and about to finish a task.
You can eventually choose a class, warrior, mage, rogue or healer. You can join guilds, form parties and go on quests. There’s a lot do do there and I’m still learning but I thought I’d pass this on because if you’re the type of person (like me) who likes to get a pat on the back and bit of reward when you meet a goal, you’ll enjoy this.
If you’re even slightly OCD, you might want to stay away from this site. It will end you.
Fight the real enemy.
First day of my vacation and I got a new personal best for distance. So, yeah, no pressure for the rest of the week.
I’m proud if this one. Just doing it made me feel like I’d accomplished something since this was the kind of day that would normally make me skip my workout. I never got my second wind, but like Tex Cobb said: When I get tired, I just fight tired.
I’m proud if this one. Just doing it made me feel like I’d accomplished something since this was the kind of day that would normally make me skip my workout. I never got my second wind, but like Tex Cobb said: When I get tired, I just fight tired.
Bad start to the day
I woke up this morning and realized I’ve got a week of vacation time left and I need to take it this month. Like in the next two weeks because November and December get too busy to take time off. I also realized I’m totally unprepared to get enough work done ahead of time to be off in the next couple of weeks.
While I was laying there going over this, I totally forgot to get out of bed until my last minute “You are now officially late” alarm went off.
So, I missed my morning workout and blew about three other items on my list of good habits for the morning and somehow I managed to gain two pounds last yesterday.
I am officially starting the day in a deep hole of depression and hopelessness.
On the bright side, I’m going to feel great tonight once I’ve dug myself out of the hole and figured out how to fix everything. So … I’m not counting this as a loss yet.
As long as you’re still breathing, there’s time to turn things around.
Today’s update: Monday’s and Tuesday’s are my long days at work. I usually have meetings on Mondays and work a few hours late on Tuesday getting the paper ready for the press. Consequently, these are the nights I’m most likely to skip workouts.
Tonight, I didn’t skip. I haven’t done any research but I’m pretty sure this is a godawful pace for using a bike instead of running, but I hope to pick up the pace by the end of the year.
I started biking instead of walking last week when I realized that I’ve pretty much topped out on how fast I can walk in the space I have available.
I’d love to run and be a true Runner 5, but I don’t have a convenient place to do that. So, I’m hoping cycling will be what I need. What I need is a routine I can do that will let me push myself and improve. Faster, further, make those number climb. My walking pace and distance all more than doubled from January to October using ZR!. It’ll be interesting to see how much my cycling will improve from today’s stats as a pure novice to what they’ll be a year from now.
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