Getting Ready to Lindy
I used to be intimidated by the Lindy Hop swing dancers. They're all so young! (and athletic)
Well, not any more!
For health, some of you set a goal to run a half-marathon. Me, my sights are set on Mo.Kan.Swing!
This is a three-day marathon of Lindy Hop swing dancing and workshops. Morning till the wee hours of night in Kansas City, I'll be dance, dance, dancing for three days straight.
To train, I'm doing: dance lessons, lot's of dancing, workouts at the gym...
(I know the photo's jiggled, but I want you to see - now, it takes level 3 to keep my pulse at 144 for an hour!)
...and that the weather's nice again, it's back on the bike trail!
25.4 miles and two hours it takes to ride from my house, all the way around and home again. The Sioux Falls trail is paved and marvelous. It follows the river, weaving in and out woods and parks. The satellite track from my GPS looks like this:
The vitals are good!
Now, my blood pressure is "Low Normal" or "Normal" for athletes and children!
I'm down 23 lbs from 215 to 192 where it's holding steady.
No more double chin. Here's my passport photo from May 5, 2005, to now, four years later.
I'm a little younger. Good thing. My dance instructor was born the year I graduated high school. My regular dance partner is also in her 20's.
Posted by Stephen T Wilson at 4/9/2009 12:34 PM 
Categories: Sioux Falls, Dance, Living
Tags: Living Sioux Falls Dance South Dakota
Categories: Sioux Falls, Dance, Living
Tags: Living Sioux Falls Dance South Dakota
I had to look closely to see if that was the same shirt in those four-year-apart pictures...
And I'm still intimidated. So there.
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We Pirates (not those Somalia thugs) don't really live a life style that lends itself to good health. aaarrr, but what fun we have pillaging and stuff.
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