Jill Murray
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(hint: if you pay very close attention, you’ll see me awkwardly breakdancing)
And so it’s over.
I’ve had an amazing month. Here’s the tally:
29 Dance classes danced 15 Chapters (draft complete) & 13 blog entries written 3 web sites & 3 videos worked on 2 houseguests accomodated 1 book launched 1 media [...]
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We’re getting close to the end, and it’s starting to show. Some people have long surpassed the 28/28 goal, and now have shiny star stickers in boxes on the leaderboard, stretching all the way up to 40 classes or [...]
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This one is going to be short, but life-changingly poingant, I promise.
I learned the same thing in two different classes last week.
In Hula-Hooping, it sounded like this:
“If you feel like you’re about to drop the hoop, [...]
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We have a leaderboard now. And we love our leaderboard. Every day before class, it is the subject of as much scrutiny as if it were a casting announcement. And in a way, it is a casting announcement– we are [...]
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I had another wardrobe emergency yesterday. I was getting my picture taken by my good old friend, Tristan Brand in Old Montreal– known for tourist traps, cobblestones, overpriced food, lots of cool old stuff, and being nowhere near my apartment– [...]
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OK, THERE’S the soreness. In the end, I did 10 classes last week (9 that I’m counting). That was too many. I was feeling pretty great up until about 8 or 9 or so, and then in the morning on Saturday, [...]
Continue Reading →Last night was my day off SweatFest, so my counter hasn’t budged. I just wanted to log in to mention that not dancing after several consecutive days of dancing feels really weird– much much weirder than the fatigue of doing 7 classes in 3 days– twitchy, restless, boredish– like it would be WAY better not [...]
Continue Reading →When I started this challenge, I thought that my main issue would be soreness. But it’s not. My main issue is LAUNDRY. You go through a lot more clothes when you’re sweating through them daily. I actually had to go buy more workout clothes yesterday, because I couldn’t get the laundry done in time, and [...]
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