Here we go into March! February was a little bit of a rough month. \u00a0Extreme cold days and illness. \u00a0The two goals for February were to Read a Poem Every Day and to Write 4 Poems.<\/p>\n
I read way more than 28 poems! In the process of reading poems I also made some work towards another goal of finishing books that I started. \u00a0I finished reading through\u00a0The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. \u00a0<\/em>It was hard to read only one of her poems at a time so I’d read 3 or 4 at a go. I purchased the book last year after she passed away so was glad to finally get around to finishing it. Over the last few days I just searched for poems to read to finish out the month.<\/p>\n I did write 4 poems! I might share them at a later date! We shall see… They were all pretty short (one is actually a haiku!) but were a good foray back into the mindset of writing poems like in high school. \u00a0Although in high school there was no website to double check my syllable count!<\/p>\n I continue to make progress on other goals as well:<\/p>\n – I’m still way off last year’s running mileage for the month (33 in 2014 and 14 in 2015). \u00a0I don’t remember why I didn’t run the first week of the month, was it too cold or too stressed at work? And then I got a sinus infection towards the end of the month.<\/p>\n – \u00a0After talking about planning a spring bike race I finally got around to getting the trainer setup and have used it 4 times this month. \u00a0My bike computer needed batteries so I didn’t get mileage for the first few rides, but in the mileage count for the month I estimated (on the conservative side) that I rode 44 miles. \u00a0Last year I rode 5 times on the trainer. I also hit a spin class at the YMCA which was a pretty good workout.<\/p>\n – The aforementioned sinus infection hit me on the week that I could have done Crossfit three times \u00a0so I only got it once which really hurt my ability to go. \u00a0I’ve been trying to make up some of the missed weight lifting workouts on the weekend at the YMCA, \u00a0but it isn’t the same. \u00a05\/9 times again in February.<\/p>\n – I did mobility 21 days, which is a high percentage than in January.<\/p>\n – Christy and I disagree on the number of kidless dates that we had. \u00a0I think we did 2, but neither of us can remember what the other date was. \u00a0We went to the new Surly Tap Room and it was excellent food and excellent beer!<\/p>\n My plan for March is to declutter my spaces.. what can be thrown away, given away, or put away somewhere else. An item a day or 31 items. \u00a0A Facebook friend posted that for Lent they are getting rid of a bag of stuff a day! That is a lot of stuff. \u00a0Similar to last year and with “decluttering the digital” life this can be hard to stop once you get into the flow of it. \u00a0We’ve already given a few bags of stuff to Goodwill this year from our kitchen.<\/p>\n I also hope to get outside and ride the bike some. \u00a0That is very dependent on the weather, but hopefully it will start to warm up. \u00a0Even though March is the snowiest month of the year it also tends to dry up quickly. \u00a0Though this winter no one really knows!<\/p>\n Since March is also the last month of the quarter I need to be working on getting to Inbox and Tab Zero!! Yikes \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here we go into March! February was a little bit of a rough month. \u00a0Extreme cold days and illness. \u00a0The two goals for February were to Read a Poem Every Day and to Write 4 Poems. I read way more than 28 poems! 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