Starting the week with the guys away, and Zombie running

[kay_gmd]

So for Father's Day, and because Groblek is taking Kosh off for a week with the grandparents, I took primary Kosh duty all weekend.  It was a generally good weekend.  We had fun at the train museum Saturday (Groblek had fun at the museum too, but missed the train ride).  This was the first time since Kosh learned about the train tables that he's pushed for looking at the big trains.

Incidentally with our membership we can bring in 2 guests.  Let us know if you want to go.

He napped hard!

Sunday we biked over to Dos to take Groblek out for Father's day.  We were thwarted in our attempts to go for desert, and raided the home ice cream supply instead.

By now the guys have probably already headed up towards Occidental, by way of train town.

So far for me that means that I was sans toddler on the morning commute.

I figured that was a great opportunity to get some extra exercise in.  So I pulled up Zombie run, and took a brisk walk to the far bus stop in Davis, and got off in the second stop in Sac, and walked from there.  This was 2.15 mi. in 37 minutes 12 seconds.  Great way to start the morning.  I'm planning on continuing this all week, although I hope to leave a little earlier in the morning.

At this point I want to work on increasing my speed.  To that end I'm activating zombie chases.  These activate, and I have to go faster than my average speed for a given amount of time.  I'm much happier with this speeding me up rather than speeding up for fear of missing my bus.

So far I've Zombie walked every workday since May 20th, and I'm really enjoying it.  I'm about half way through season 1.  Once I run out of episodes I will happily pay for the season pass to get the new ones.

Comments

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

Okay.

The Zombie chase certainly gets the heart rate up!

I got caught by the first mob, and lost all the materials I'd collected so far in the run (luckily nothing story important (I assume that if I had something story relevant I'd hang on to it)).

I escaped the second mob.

I think the chase starting in the first 3 minutes meant that "average speed" didn't have a lot of sample to go on. It looks like I went faster in the first mob, but because it was early in the run my average speed was higher.

The concept is that you have to increase your speed by 20% for one minute, so if my speed hasn't been recorded for long it may be thinking I need to increase from higher. I'll just have to make sure I push harder on early mobs.

[groblek.livejournal.com]

Thanks again for the Father's Day break, it was much appreciated. Josh had fun at traintown and had a good nap - he stayed asleep when we got here and only just woke up. He's now enjoying playing with Grandma Laura's trains.

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

Sounds great!
I hope you 2 have a really great week.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

If you're into train museums, and you're ever down in SoCal, let me know. We're members out at Orange Empire in Perris (have been for years), so with enough planning we could meet you out there. [Thomas is usually vacationing in Perris around Veterans Day, if you know what I mean]

[kay-gmd.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I can't see us getting down there any time soon, but we'll keep it in mind.