I’ve got a new obsession. No, No, its not the Mayor!! You are sick! Its Reading Challenges. I’m talking about challenges to read and list books. I love lists and keeping track of stuff. I am absolutely OCD about it, and I love analyzing the lists also. That is one reason I love geocaching. Not only do I get to go find stuff out in the woods, the web site keeps track of my finds and there is software to analyze the finds. You know how you determine if a geocacher is lying to you? Its easy, if he or she say “I don’t really care about the numbers …. blah blah blah”, then they are lying to you, big time! and should have their, uh sorry…. Anyway, back to Reading Challenges. I’ve already signed up for three. I’m going to hold it there for the time being, at least through tonight.

Now, I’m looking for other type challenges. I love to run and keeping track of mileage and workouts and stuff is a classic runners obsession. I used to keep track of my miles but quit for some reason. Now I’ve found a running challenge. It is by our very own Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor. You can sign up here. It is called the Mayor’s Fitness Challenge. Its free! Except I would use a web based email account not your real one to sign up with to avoid election emails.

Its based on running but you can credit for walking, aerobics, and other stuff. I didn’t see one for TV watching but maybe that is coming.

So today at noon I trudged over to my gym downtown and put in three miles on a treadmill. Its painful but my friends with Metallica were pulling for me especially at the last where they played “Broken, Beat, and Scarred”, “Judas Kiss,” and “Cyanide” just for me. Now I’ve signed up with Mayor Taylor’s challenge and it tells me that so far that:

928 people have signed up for the challenge, and they have run, or done eqivalent exercise, a total of

64,515 miles or an average of

69.52 miles each. Of which Mayor Taylor has done

53.45 miles and I have personally contributed

3.00 miles to that total.

So, she owes me. If I hadn’t signed up then she would have only 64,512 miles on her challenge. Where would she be then? She owes me big time. I’m going to call her and tell her so.