6649. Do a virtual 5K

I keep seeing Virtual 5Ks on Facebook sponsored by various companies with really cool medals. I want a really cool medal but to get the really cool medal it would cost me $30+ and I get no post race buffet. I kept contemplating which one to do Harry Potter? Sesame Street? Star Wars? I almost signed up for a pizza one on Pi Day because it was like $3 but we weren't planning on being back from vacation yet. 

Then I happened to see Silver Circle Sports Events offer a free 5K due to the Corona Virus. I've ran with Silver Circle when I did the Pi Run back in 2016. I figured I could walk a 5K. 

So I did. I had the same goals.. finish in under an hour and don't finish last. I worried about finishing last since most of the Silver Circle participants are hard core runners and I figured there weren't too many turtles out there. 

I ended up doing the 5K in 50:53. Not bad for walking most of it. I think the wind helped a bit. 

I even made my own Medal from Shrinky Dinks I had left. Somehow I still haven't mastered the whole shrinky dinks because it has some serious curling on the edges going on. I managed to make it look okay. 

One day I will fork out the cash to do a Virtual 5K with a really cool medal but until then I will keep doing these Virtual 5Ks as long as the weather lets me. Maybe one day I will break the 40 minute mark.. I know Pipe Dreams.

837. Take a ballet class

I happened to see that Ballet Nova Ballet Studio in the DC was offering free online ballet classes the first week we were staying at home due to COVID-19. I always wanted to take a ballet class. I am not that graceful or rhythmic to actually be a ballerina not to mention these thunder-thighs. I figured this was my chance. As Stacy said, I would be whole lot less self conscious.

I've done the New York Ballet Workout video off and on for years... and I mean very sparingly off and on. I'd go months (years) without doing and rarely get through the whole thing due to lack of coordination. So to do it on Facebook Live could be interesting to say the least.

With the hubby home, there is limited space in our apartment for me to work out without disturbing him. So I set up in the kitchen. A bit odd but I figured it was the biggest open space we had.

I survived. It was quite difficult to follow. One ballerina would demonstrate the move to another ballerina. Then that ballerina would proceed to do with move or sequence with us along with the music. They really weren't any instructions. You really had to pay attention.

It might have been slightly easier if I didn't take the Advanced Beginning Ballet class. I figured I know the basic positions from my workout video and could handle it. Yeah not so much. It was a lot harder than the work out video.

I am glad I attempted the ballet class and didn't give up. Maybe I should have taken the over 50 class. I might have been able to handle that. Maybe I will try to find another online beginning class online to take during this pandemic. Until then I will work on my plies.