Inspired by Alicia Silverstone's "The Kind Diet" and Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," we want to experience the vegan lifestyle to improve our health, boycott animal suffering, and reduce our carbon footprint.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Not Jump Rope Queen

I was quite excited and nervous for the G-Fit Jump Rope Competition, since I felt I had a solid chance of not tripping and landing on my face.  The night before (as witnessed by roomie) I had practiced with my invisible jump rope, bounding around the living room.  I was feeling good.  Then, I show up at the big gig at 12:07p ready for action.  I took a couple practice swings with my rope, did some shoulder rolls, and eyed up my time keeper.  Good news? She could run a stopwatch.  Bad news?  She wasn't coherent.  Example:  After what had seemed like 3 hours later and I had been jumping constantly without error, my lovely time keeper mumbled something.  "You're done" was not what she said.  Regardless, I stopped jumping to ask her to repeat her incoherent comment. "You're halfway done!"  Insert eye roll and panic attack here.  Next, I start frantically jumping and pound out another astounding 100+ jumps - no errors.  What could have been a world record of jumps (Laura's World) in 2 minutes, turned out to be 232 jumps instead of at least 250. I should really put "jump rope" on the top of my 26th Birthday Gift List.

Eating Journal:
-oatmeal with granola, dried fruit
-melon salad
-salad with tofu, bulgar wheat pesto patty
-couple bites of cupcake
-wine sampler, bites of seitan sautee
-mongolian BBQ (broccoli, onions, cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, baby corn, udon noodles, chili sauce), froyo

Exercise Journal:
-20 min walk
-jumped rope 232 times in 2 minutes (decent)
-1 hour Zumba dance class

1 comment:

  1. That's a terrific number of jumps, my dear daughter! Congrats!

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