No excuses
I wasn't going to make 10,000 steps today, but a little birdie and a school of Japanese swordsmanship changed my mind.
Steve Maxwell is on Facebook, and today he posted about going for a run, in what sounded like the freezing wind and rain. How his girlfriend had braved the elements on a bicycle to get dinner for him. How he'd softened up some, since spending more time in California, as opposed to his native Philly. The Old Coach travels a fair bit in a small van, which he and Teresa call home, and that leads to a certain nap of the earth flavor to his reportage.
Suddenly, the excuse of a busy morning redoing a video project didn't seem so solid.
Low putt-putt average is about 2-3000 steps for a day; I'd gotten up to around 7000, with 5 sets of kettlebell clean and presses + jumprope (100 skips) + ~1000 steps of walking. Was nodding off dreamily closing out the day. Then checked Tweetdeck, and Coach's Facebook post.
And remembered a Posterous pointer post by Noelle Chung, from my daily Posterous delivery of subscribed blogs.
One thing...find and then focus on the one thing that will make the most difference in your...whatever. And was reminded of the Itto-ryu school of swordsmanship, which I believe had the motto one cut, one life. Don't dance around; take his head off sort of thing.
So, Max got a long, late night walk.
