Daily Success October 21

Daily Success October 21 is “Failed”, plain, pure, and simple. It’s true that I can’t walk more than a few hundred feet before my back goes into rebellion. It’s true that yesterday was particularly bad as the injections seemed to cause a negative side effect.

But the reason for “Failed” is simple. The Internet Monster won and any slip on exercise or posting coupled with no “excuse points” was going to result in a “Failed” rating. The scoring system ties that cause and effect together, just as it’s supposed to.

I knew that. My bad.

I did get on the bike, but only VERY briefly. My heart wasn’t in it. I hadn’t put on a tee shirt and shorts. I couldn’t handle it because the settings were still what they had been when I was on the bike constantly. I just gave up. My bad.

One thing that I did do was get to work on my videos from July. I did 31 of them. There are more!

Today

Daily Success today requires completing my work on the videos from July 31st, picking the ones “YouTube worthy” and uploading them. Then I will look at the jpgs from that day and get to work on a “My Camino Day” post. Doing that, controlling the Internet Monster, and getting my Core and Leg exercises done will give me a decent rating for the day.

The exercise should be fairly easy because there is football on to distract me. In addition, I’ll reduce the bike settings to “wimp” until I get back in “bike shape.”

The Future

The future continues to be hazy with my back being what it is. I have to know which way my back is heading before I can decide a course of action.

Hiking the Camino

I all goes well with my back, I will hike again in 2024 because the passion is still there.

I am considering multiple options for hiking the Camino next year. Two of them are in France. The Finisterre route would be a short (just 116.3 km or 73 miles) via Muxía) and familiar effort. It would also be a sort of an end point, an exclamation point added to my Compostela. I’m not sure I want that.

Volunteering as an Hospitalero

Volunteering as an Hospitalero seems almost inevitable because my need for Camino involvement seems unrelenting.

Importantly, my body is more willing to admit my age, now 78, than I am. My body will be in charge eventually. Becoming an Hospitalero looks like a way to combine passion with reality.

Thus, Hospitalero Training is probably in my future, most likely the March session in Texas.