"Who cares? Not me!" And I shed a grease tear

Challenge #6: 
1. Acquire Log, roughly torso size and no less than 15lbs.

2. Acquire 137 pennies.

3. With pennies in pockets, carry log on a three mile jog, preferably through untamed forest. Do not lose any pennies or you have to start over.

4. Crawl with log 220 yards. If your belly leaves the ground, start over. You can be creative here, such as tying a belt to the log to drag it. Belts may come in handy in the real race as well.

5. Find a Olympic or junior Olympic pool. Adorn log with zinc oxide, shades, whistle, and "I'm With Stupid" t-shirt and set at the end of your lane.

6. swim 30 lengths and dive for 137 pennies

‎7. Return home with log. At each staircase you encounter, put your feet on the third step, your hands below that on a landing and crank out ten push-ups--then compose two lines of poetry that rhyme on a pad of paper you have with you. I...f there are no stairs, compose at least twelve lines of rhyming poetry. Must be original.

8. Aggressively build large fort out of couch cushions and all of the bedding that you own.

9. Install log in couch fort, removing his lifeguard accouterments.

10. Prepare and consume 7 Eggo waffles and an entire package of center-cut bacon.

11. Memorize and repeat your poem for someone as they check for accuracy against your poem paper. Each error will cost you 25 push-ups, and you can't try the recitation again until those are complete.

12. Wake up log. Return him to where you found him. Bespeak fond words to him as you bid this loyal companion farewell.

13. Spend all of the 1.37 without going over or under, without donating to that little tray of pennies or saying"keep the change". Consume completely or completely destroy whatever you buy. That doesn't mean break it into smaller pieces--it means completely destroy. On the ashes to ashes level. Turning food into poo counts. So does burning. You are also free to haggle about the 1.37 but not with anyone you know.

14. Return to base.

15. Eat 7 Eggo waffles.

Complete!

The Poem says it all:

This morning I went for a jog.

A jog through a bog with a log.

This morning I went for a crawl.

A crawl in a squall near East Mall.

My logs still stand!
One big happy log family!

30 lengths in the pool,

my log dressed a'fool.

I dove to the bottom

for change not forgotten,

and surfaced with many a jewel.

Stupid with 'life guard log'

10 push ups feet on 3rd stair

Back home warm and dry 

I let out a sigh

"Its time to build a fort,"

I inform my cohort.

And we piled pillows sky-high.

Log and I in our fort reading the Bible

"Breakfast is here,"

I say with a cheer!

7 waffles to start,

Is bacon bad for the heart?

"Who cares? Not me!" And I shed a grease tear.

7 Eggo waffles and a package of bacon

Soon this will come to an end

I'll have to say 'farewell my wood friend.

For I'm off to the shop

to buy a gumdrop,

with only a dollar thirty seven to spend.

  

Mango - $1.37.  Consumed and 'destroyed'

Thank you Chris Cox for this challenge!
Give me YOUR best shot:  ahaas008@gmail.com

24 in 24

Challenge #5: Run the stairs in the UBC Thunderbird Olympic Rink 24 times in 24 hours.

Complete!

My Tally Sheet

My knees currently ice as I sit by my apartment's west-facing window absorbing the last few rays of a beautifully sunny day. I'm so happy to be finished with this challenge.

After a weekend of revisiting goals on Bowen Island with two amazing friends, Matt and Zoe, I decided that I would tackle my next challenge early Monday morning.

The clock struck 8am Monday and I was off!

The goal: Four sets of six laps before Tuesday at 8am.

Set One: Piece of cake - strong heart rate, negative splits, smile on my face!
Set Two: Two laps in - "FOOD NOW!" I inhaled a slice of pumpernickel with peanut butter and a Powerade.  Knocked out the last 4 laps.
Set Three: I pushed through six painful laps, grimacing often. I was finished for the day.

-Sleep-

"Okay," I thought, "I had until 8am Tuesday morning to complete the final six laps. OH WAIT! I have a dentist appointment at 8am on Tuesday morning!"
*expletives*

My alarm rang at 4:20am - it's on! I laced up my runners, bused to UBC and embarked upon the last leg of my journey at 5:30am. 

After only 10 steps my ego started screaming at me! "GIVE UP NOW!"

As Mr. Corker put it:
"My ego is that the little voice inside my head that tells me what I want to hear, not what I need to hear. It has said things in the past like “popular kids don’t put their hands up in class,” “no one can actually be that happy,” or “it’s ok to give up now.”

It is not okay to give up.

I was immediately in pain, but knew that I could either give up and make excuses or write to you about how I completed 24 laps of Thunderbird Arena in 24 hours!

 ...well actually it was twenty-three hours.

Thunderbird Arena - 6:45am Tuesday

Thank you Kavie Toor for this sadistic challenge!
Think you can top this?  Email me at ahaas008@gmail.com with your challenge!

Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow

Challenge #4:  Do line drills and at each line do 20 push ups.

"I am SO weak," I kept saying at the 30, 40, 50... 
Being that it was Superbowl Sunday I thought it only proper to do a football related challenge.  I geared up in my black shorts and yellow shirt jumped on the field and knocked out a smaller but telling challenge. I am weak.  I need to work on my upper body strength big time.  200 push ups gave me a hell of a lot more trouble than I expected.  Better beef up if expect to defeat death!

Sunday night we whipped up some delicious eats, cracked some brews and watched the atrocity that was the Superbowl...  My boys didn't quite cut it, but we still love the black and yellow!

... that is, until next year when the real champs, the New England Patriots reclaim the Lombardi Trophy!