Crowned Again
If you achieve your monthly fitness challenge, Apple Fitness delivers a slightly harder challenge the following month. Achieve enough months in a row, and your challenge becomes something like, “Burn 60,000 calories per day for 14 days, and we’ll give you a digital badge.” When it gets to that point, I skip the month, and the challenges deflate back to something like, “Try to walk three times this month.”
I was close to skipping last month’s challenge when ChickieNob commented that it would only take three days of long afternoon walks to finish what I had halfheartedly started. To make my indoor walk more enjoyable, I switched from first-person walking videos (which are great but always make me mindful of how much time has passed) to rewatching The Crown from season 1, episode 1.
I love it so much. I got lost in the episode, and it made me notice so many things that I missed watching it the first time, as well as how much Elizabeth changes with age and experience.
I received my digital badge, so my next challenge was even more ridiculous. But I will stick with The Crown and see the whole series again from beginning to end.
2 comments
I like your approach!
There is a game on our Xbox that my husband and I used to play, called Geometry Wars. It’s a dumb shooter game, but…maybe it’s not so dumb. My husband was MUCH better at it than I am, so I would grab the controller first to play the first game (it’s a preloaded demo, so it doesn’t save any stats). I found that about 75% of the time, the first game was significantly easier to get to higher scores than any subsequent games, so I tried to get my advantage in before he could ruin it with his extraordinary score. If you get past the base high score of 10,000 points, once you lose and restart, the game will throw the more difficult pieces at you earlier. The first game is almost always the easiest game, and I would always try to steal it. Learn how the system works, so you can work the system!
I couldn’t get into The Crown, for some reason. I think it’s the gossip sites I read. They’re so critical (and for good reason, I think) that everything is ruined. Give me Bridgerton, where it’s all made up!
I love rewatching favourite series, and I’m tempted to dig out my old CDs and rewatch The West Wing for the umpteenth time, because before I know it my player will conk out and I won’t be able to use them again. I enjoyed the first couple of series of The Crown, because I would sit there with wikipedia open researching each of the major news events – the fog, the landslide, etc – to ensure what I was seeing was true. I’ve watched the latest episodes, but they’re too close (ie I was living in THE SAME HOUSE I’m in now when it all happened), and there’s too much invention/speculation, even around the publicly known events/statements etc.
I think your approach to the fitness challenges are the right way to go!