Hey everyone, just did the first workout for the 2020 Crossfit Open last Friday. This is my 3rd year participating in it and my last year in the 55-59 age bracket, gulp. Even though I don't turn 59 until next year, my birthday puts me on the other side of the bracket so I'll be in 60+. Seeing that just really brought home how close I am to the big 6-0. I don't even feel like I'm in my 50's, it's surreal. I've always been a bit of a fitness nut and eat pretty well, so I'm happy to say I'm approaching 60 with a good, solid, healthy base. I've had no major health problems thus far in my life (knock on wood) and have great mobility and strength for my age. I started cutting weight a couple of months ago and am down to 12% bodyfat. Goal is 10%. Here's to hoping I have many more healthy years ahead!
I mentioned before that I bought a kiln. I've made quite a few small ceramic sculpts and am really enjoying the new hobby! I opened an Etsy shop, haven't sold anything so far but I've learned you get very little traffic on Etsy unless you drive it there from somewhere else (like Instagram). For now I'm just honing my skills, I'll worry about the shop later.
My "anniversary" came and went without notice. It was 4 days ago and I didn't think about it until today.
My loyal Ford Edge had almost 300k miles on it until the perfect storm hit, I was facing 7k in repairs on a car that blue books for 1500! I hated to see it go, loved that car! But it was time. Bought a cool little Honda CRV that gets much better gas mileage. That's probably the biggest "life change" I've had lately!
Things are still going well with my GF. She's been doing more modeling lately and wow, she certainly is a stunner (I mean I thought so anyway but the camera does love her). I mentioned before we were trying to see more of each other and we've worked out a schedule to get together every other week, which doesn't sound like a lot but we're both super busy and that's twice as much as before, so it's an improvement.
Kids are all great, my two D's are still working at their same jobs and S is in his junior year of high school. I've ramped up my efforts to teach him to drive, he's been doing quite well at it!
