Couple more runs, I can skip my daily 1 Million squats

My wife inspired this entry. She is preparing for a ski trip, exercising a lot, running, lifting weights, etc. She is a beginner skiier, and will be taking classes and learning how cool skiing can be.

I, on the other hand, am an expert skiier. I was too young to remember, but by reconstructing bits and pieces of information I have gathered over the years from eaves dropping on conversations, I think it went down like this: when I was a toddler, I took my first steps in the fall, and that winter my father had me on skis.  You know when you go skiing, and you’re really proud because you finally learned to take wide turns without using the snowplow, and in about six years you might be able to do it parallel, but the point is you’re making progess, and then some little five year old whips by at the speed of light and giggles evily just before he launches himself into the air and effortlessly sticks the landing? That was me. At least, that was me if the complaints of my parents’ friends are to be believed. I’ve gotten better since then.

But now I’ll be skiing with my wife, who is just starting out. So, in order to make sure we are more on the same level, I decided to try something new: Tele-skiing. This is a style of skiing where your heels are not attached to the ski. As a result, you turn by basically doing lunges down the hill. It’s very graceful. The other benefit is that you get 2 reasons to feel superior at the end of the day when everyone gathers at the lodge and complains about how this skiing thing is making them ache in places they didn’t know they had body parts: (1) your boots are actually pretty comfortable, so you can walk around without looking like you got hit by a bus and (2) you did lunges all day, so (assuming you can still walk) you can brag about what great shape you’re in.

But enough talk. Here’s a good youtube video that shows you why I decided to title this entry “Thighs of steel.”

Click here to see where I got the above photo from.