The road of self-discovery was rather humbling this week.
Lesson 1: I am not
in the kick-ass shape I imaged. Not
exactly a news flash since I’ve been slacking since June, but even though I can
boast completing a marathon and a half-Iron distance triathlon in the last six
months, when confronted with the Insanity workout DVDs, I still collapsed on
the floor in heap of sweat while gasping for air. My quads feel like lead, and stairs are not
my friend. Oh yeah, and I’m only on day
2 of 60. It’s going to be a long 2
months.
But you guys don’t really care about that right? You’re here for the knitting. That brings me to:
Lesson 2: I AM AN
IDIOT
Ages ago I planned to knit Clockwork, bought the pattern,
and then whined when I realized I didn’t have as much yarn as the pattern
called for. Anyone remember that
pity-party? Apparently I needed 16
months of continuing to daydream about a red and cream Clockwork to come to the
ridiculously obvious conclusion that it’s just a scarf knit lengthwise, and I could
knit a narrower version. Seriously, it
took 16 months for that to occur to me. Within
hours of my monumental epiphany, the pattern was printed, yarn was wound, and
Clockwork was in progress.
With the easy Citron project wrapped up and Laika
currently acting like a black-hole of knitting, Clockwork is my new go-to
project. Is it all I hoped and dreamed? No idea yet, but I'm enjoying it so I'm not stressing about the end result. After weeks of laceweight yarn and size 2 needles for Laika, I'm absolutely loving sportweight and size 6. I
thought I’d be further along after spending 10 hours at a dog agility event on Saturday,
but the day was hectic and I was exhausted. Juno too.
Despite the blue ribbon, it was not one of our better days--only 2 clean runs of
5. I think we were both hot, tired, and
out of sorts. Hiking and swimming with
Rugby on Sunday was more her speed. Wet
dirty dogs are happy dogs!
Happy dogs will still refuse to look at the camera though.
Visit Tami’s for more WIPW!
To even attempt insanity means you are in super shape!
ReplyDeleteI love that red. mmmmmm
Oh the realization our bodies are not in the shape we think they are. I started C25K this weekend and man my legs are screaming! I'm loving the color combo of the clockwork, and sometime a project needs to marinate for a bit before we start on it!
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