I’d just bought a set of street-skating wheels along with a set of ABEC5 bearings for my skates. Fitted them, did a skate around the neighbourhood and skated back home to do some gardening…

Back home, I took my skates off, left them in the garage then went to grab the wheel-barrow from the backyard. I worked in the front-yard and when I finished, I closed the garage door. When I tried to find my skates to put them away, I couldn’t find them! I’ve looked all up and down the house and I can’t find them.

We’ve had other things stolen from the garage while its been open (a shovel of all things.) I really should fit a camera as we’re certain it’s one of our neighbours.

Now I have a set of rink-wheels and ABEC7 bearings without skates :(

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I keep on starting and stopping without any proper goal-tracking. Here’s hoping that logging my progress on 43things keeps me on-track and allow me to complete the challenge.

In addition to the push-ups, I’m including reverse-crunches into my routine. I don’t have anywhere to do pull/chin-ups, though I do have a few places where I could mount a bar, so I may fix something up and I’ll include it into my regime.

For cardio, I’m trying to map-out a decent route to skate through. It’s a shame that the bikeway tracks around here don’t join-up, so I may have to skate to a decent length of bikeway and just head one way and go back, don’t bother with a loop.

Anyhow, my first-day final-set results:
Push-up: 12
Reverse-crunch: 10

"I should have done it years ago."

How I did it: While I'd earned my full Indonesian driver's licence over eight years ago, it took me 10years and 136days to earn my Australian (specifically Queensland) learner's licence. Anyhow, I read the road-rules PDF, cram studied overnight (I did the online test ~30 times,) rocked-up, paid-up and got 30/30.

Lessons & tips: Just do it! It's painless and it shouldn't take anybody ten years to get it done :p

Resources:

It took me 10 years.

It made me Amused