very true perry! i walk or bike everyday, minimum 3 mile walk, bike no less than an hour. i am very active spring, summer and fall months, its when the S
starts flying and the FA...temps begins. uhmm use your imagination. ANYWAYS, then i revert to going to the gym. walk, bike and do some light weights. i dislike being indoors, but like to keep moving and keep the senior body with less gravity in the mid sections and some upper body strength going.
when i was in fire school (for fire investigation only), i was required to take the training course all firefighters take in physical agility. i can tell you, this course weeds out many candidates as firefighters men and women both. two women were left, myself and another, and many men took the cut as well. at the time, there were all sorts of indoor/outdoor exercises to carry equipment and dummies on a level surface. the challenge was carrying fire hoses or other equipment up and down a flight of stars in full gear, or carrying a 150 lb. dummy down a flight of stairs in a mock concrete 2 story training facility. my instructor really was a great guy, a long time firefighter, a chief and a state fire marshal/state fire investigator for a number of years, and a hard nose. he was exceptionally hard on me. i later learned he really liked me and did so to teach me to be a better fire investigator. it worked. during my test of carrying the dummy down the stairs, he made some critical comments to me in front of the rest of the class, and i thought not equal to how he had critiqued some of the guys. out of breath, and i guess a 'show you' attitude, i hauled that dang dummy back up the stairs to the 2nd story concrete room, lifted it up to the concrete cut out window and shoved it out that window where it fell two stories down.......stuck my head out the window and hollered out down at him something to the effect "
does this work for you"..........
i passed.........
not sure if it was adrenalin or determination, or both or just plain mad, i wanted to pass. i would never be able to do this now and i have a hard time lifting full supers and deeps, so an adjustment of some sort for me in the future, some cleats added to the boxes? time will tell.
i digress from perry's original post of the thread.....
but some of the posts just reminded me of what i could do in younger years.
stinky honey? for me it was a little goldenrod and something else i couldn't identify? it was all mixed in with the general population of the rest of my honey.......
it's all good....it's honey, the real thing!
