Our Lives

Boy, am I sore.  I have gone to Yoga at the Healthridge Fitness center 6 times in the last 9 days. Intense and my body is telling me so. I’ve experienced a few different styles of yoga as well as different teaching styles. One major thing that I have learned is that breathing is a huge part of the experience. Your breathing can help increase the stretch and if you really let yourself “relax” into a pose your body can handle a lot more than you think it can.

The best part of this new “going to yoga as much as possible” is how much better I feel after I’ve gone to a class and really tried to experience it. In the end your body is so relaxed, yet you feel as if you’ve had a great workout. It is also amazing to realize how much your own body weight can be used to strengthen itself.

I must thank my beautiful wife Veronica for turning me on to what a great part of my day yoga can be.

My very favorite part of yoga is that it is yet another thing Veronica and I can do together.

Until next time.

First up 10k’s:

Not so much plural runs, but definitely plural runners. Veronica and I completed our first official 10k on Saturday morning. We joined in with many others to help support those with Parkinson’s disease and finished a 10k.  Although it was no staggering time, we did not stop running once. No walking, even on the fairly steep hill or the last slow grade from 123rd and Metcalf to 119th and Metcalf.  Our overall time was somewhere in the ballpark of 1hour and 28minutes. As my wife so eloquently put it before we started the race, as we watched all the serious runners warming up, “…we’re completers, not competers…” and true to that statement we completed our 6.4 mile run.  I am very proud of Veronica as she’s come a long way with the mental challenge that running more than 2 miles brings about.

Next up, Close Shaves:

After we finished the run, Veronica and I headed back to the house to clean up and relax for a couple of hours until it was time to meet with Lindsey and Logan to head to CoMO to go watch the Tigers play some football.  This was the first home game of the season and the first game of our season ticket package.  Lindsey, Logan, Emily, Tyler, Veronica and I all have season tickets to the MU home games and boy is it going to be a fun season.  The 2 hour drive to Columbia is quite easy and with 4 people in the car it goes by quite quickly.  As we approached Columbia we started to get back in to friendly territory. We saw more and more Tiger Tails and realized what we were missing, our own Tiger Tail!  Needless to say during our stay in Columbia we managed to pick up a Tiger Tail to swap on to whichever car we may be driving at that time.

On to the game.  It was a little scary. 3 quarters were spent trailing by at one point 17 points. This was Bowling Green State University who were handily beating last years Big 12 North champs.  Finally in the middle of the 3rd quarter Gabbert and Co. got the offense moving and clawed their way back to a 27-20 victory.  A big round of applause goes out to Sean Weatherspoon and the defense as they kept the game close enough for the offense to reel the victory in.

All in all the weekend was very great and I look forward to spending time with my wife, good friends and some good football fans.

Album covers:

Over the past 2 weeks I purchased 2 new albums.  The first one was Saosin’s new album entitled “In Search of Solid Ground”.  This is the follow-up album to the self-titled debut “Saosin”.  While I.S.O.S.G is a decent album, it in no way holds it’s weight to the previous album.  The next album I purchased just today and it was Thrice’s new album “Beggars”. In a nutshell this is a FANTASTIC album.  While a departure from their experimental album collection “The Alchemy Index” it goes back to a more jam oriented rock and roll sound.  I recommend this album to anyone wanting to listen to a great album.

Now time to watch the season finale of True Blood with my beautiful wife. Until next time.

Sean

We just got back from our first attempt at a cycling class at Healthridge Fitness. For me it was AWFUL. Nothing has ever made me feel so out of shape as this class. I came to a few conclusions afterward that may make for the next time I try a cycling class.

1. learn how to elliptical (I’ve noticed the motions are somewhat identical when your standing and peddling on a stationary bike).
2. start with a lower intensity. I started trying to win the race in the first 2 minutes. That didn’t get me anywhere at the end of it.
3. The instructor needs better music. I.E. Saosin, Alexisonfire, Killswitch Engage, basically anything that will make one angry and get rid of aggression.

Other recent events since we’ve been married include settling in to a routine. It’s nice to have some semblance of normality and routine every day. Some days it gets a little out of whack, but mostly it flows nicely. Veronica and I found a cook book at Target that is all about cooking light. I believe the motto of the book is either 5 ingredients or 15 minutes to cook. So far we’ve tried about 8 – 10 meals and almost all of them have been great. That coupled with working out more frequently and our health seems to be going in the right direction.

Last Saturday when Veronica and I went back to Columbia we went on the MKT and ran a new personal goal of 7 miles. This is all in training for the 10k that we are running in 2 weeks. It is the Helen Gold 10k and hopefully is a pretty mild run.

Our next big task is to outfit our office at home. We have started gather ideas and keeping them in anodea binder. The hope is that this wil allow us to maintain a clear vision of design and only buy/design things that wil add to the space.

That concludes this update. Until next time

Sean