Last year, I called September the Month of Wow.
Still, wow. Just Wow 2025.
Lots of work, lots of evening and weekend university events. But also lots of lifting weights and bike riding and walking Cheddar the dog.
😃Some September highlights: I really enjoyed riding in the Spinning Wheels Relay (the Pedaling for Parkinsons cross country ride). Sarah and I rode from London to Stratford (with Susan). Then we rode from Waterloo to Guelph, and Oakville to the downtown lakefront in Toronto. Highlights of the highlight? The trumpet fanfare that greeted us in Stratford! And riding the last kilometre into Toronto on Lake Shore Drive with a police escort.
Listen with the sound on!
😟Some September struggles: OMG. Every September I forget what September is like. I love it. I hate it. So much going on, so much energy all around me. I sometimes wish I could bottle that energy on campus and pour it out into the air in March. What kills me every year though is sleep. I have university events on most evenings and early starts to my days. I go from 8 hours sleep a night, to 5 or 6 on weeknights and then 9 or 10 on the weekends. Famine and feast sleep schedules don’t suit me. It’ll be better by mid-October but until then, if you see me yawning, you know why.
Checking in with numbers:
🔢Kilometres ridden: I’m aiming for 2500 kilometers this year, having adjusted my goals to something reasonable. Will I make it? That’s a lot of Zwifting in my future. Stay tuned!
🔢Numbers of workouts: I scaled that back too, aiming for 350 instead of my stretch goal of 400. I’m at 288 now. 94 days left in 2025 so that’s very doable, especially now we’re back to twice-weekly personal training.
Check out my weighted walking lunges with my new knees. I did eight lunges on each side for three sets. I was very proud of this.
🔢Books
My favourite fiction book so far this year is Play World by Adam Ross. But I’m also reading lots of science fiction. I made my way through the Bobiverse series and started in on books by John Scalzi. I loved Old Man’s War, his first.
But the nonfiction book I read this year that I strongly recommend to readers of this blog is Serene Khader’s Faux Feminism. Enjoy!
