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Yes, you heard that right. It’s time to do a bi-knit-athon. What is a biknitathon? Well, as you may have heard in my last few posts, I’ve been jogging again. I started about a month and a half ago but I didn’t want to say anything for fear I might jinx things. I’m up to about 50 minutes on the weekend, and if life allows, two 30-minute bouts during the week. On my mid-week runs I have the kids with me, so Alida sits in the jogger and Alexander rides his bike. It’s quite fun and we always have things to look for-boats, ducks, other crazy joggers, just about everything.

As I was running two weeks ago and saw all the pretty fall colors, I realized that I should have brought my camera with me to capture it all. I was quite curious if it would work- jogging and snapping pictures, so last Sunday I went alone with just my mp3 player and my camera.
I felt like I was in a biathlon where you run and then have to shoot at a target right in the middle of the race. The goal is to get your hands calm enough to shoot the target. I just had to keep steady to focus. I was also amazed at how I was so distracted taking in my surroundings, that I hardly noticed that my legs were telling me to stop. Great side effect, I tell you!!

Here are some of the shots I took.  As always, click for big.

mercedes

What would a jog in Germany be without going past Mercedes Benz?

zoo

I jogged by the zoo,

trees

through the Tiergarten. Aren’t those colors so pretty?

lion bridge

over the lion bridge,

golden

and past the golden angel. (It’s not the real name but we like it better)
I thought this would be good for you too.

For all of you who are in

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(and those of you who may not be) you need to get out there and take pictures of your activities. It doesn’t matter if you just take the stairs daily instead of the elevator-take a pic and show us. Sound good?
Inspired by Sandy who is on a sugar-free diet, my dad who has diabetes, and after seeing these inspirational socks from Miss88keys and Erica’s pretty socks from her October 19th post, I decided I needed this pattern.

Karen's pattern

The best part of it is that $2.00 goes to fight diabetes. What a great idea!!

I think we all need to get back into the sugar-free mode (for me, almost-sugar-free mode), and we need to get and stay fit, especially right before Christmas.

Let’s get fit and knit together!!! Anyone interested in taking some pictures? Look for me sporting jogging shoes and a camera, then it’s back to kntiting on the couch and feeling the pain. ;)