Surprise: As I get older and more adultish I grow weary of winter far more quickly. With this little wave of warmer weather I have absolutely no desire to go back to anything below, lets say, 50ish degrees. I used to love winter and enjoy cold far more than hot. Though let’s be honest – there’s a chance in six months I’ll be saying the exact opposite of all this. However, I don’t think I will be and I’d say that my shifts in weather tastes are more due to my migrating hobbies and lifestyle than anything.

Throughout the winter, I’ve taken on a more active lifestyle that I’ve ever really had in my life – walking and working out almost daily. Kathy and I have been setting fitness/recreation goals and have begun training to achieve them. I plan to expound on this in future posts, but at a high level: I wan’t to (and have started to) lose a good amount of weight, ascend to the peak of a moderate mountain this summer, and ultimately I would like to begin the journey of rocking out a marathon by training for and doing a 5k or two (or maybe even whatever a step up from that is. – still not in that world yet so don’t even know what typical races are… 10k? 15k? whatever.)

The point is, it’s starting to get nice out here in The Nati and I couldn’t be more excited. If walk a mile for lunch in 15 degree whether every other day now, how much better will life be when I’m jogging there in sunny 60 degree  breezes?!? Mmmm spring….