Indianapolis, IN and Healthy Living

Indianapolis, IN - The Heartland.  Last time I was here was two years ago for Chelsea Israel and Kyle Thompson's wedding in downtown near Fountain Square.  It was a beautiful ceremony and I'm happy these two have just celebrated their 2nd wedding anniversary. 

I've toured some of the covered bridges around Indiana in the past.  Here's one of my favorites from the Greencastle area circa 2005.

This time I'm further north attending a meeting at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel. Click on their website and it will automatically cycle through some of the stunning pictures of their course.  I didn't get to play but it was really beautiful just to see.  http://www.crookedstick.org/. 

I remembered to bring my MP3 player this trip; I've created a "travel playlist" and one of my favorite artists, an Indiana boy, John Mellencamp is on.  Take a watch and listen to "Pink Houses":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOfkpu6749w.  There's a shot of John playing inside a covered bridge @ the 1:06 minute mark.

And to make this an even more interesting trip it just so happened the Colts played the Eagles at home at Lucas Oil Stadium - their first Monday night game at home in 4 years.  Unfortunately luck was not with the Colts that night but they fought a good fight.

Sometimes good food options can be sparse (although McCalister's Deli right up the road from where I was staying was awesome), but fitness on the road does have its challenges so after having read about fitness bands this past spring I decided to try out the UP24 by Jawbone.  Turns out it's actually been helpful.  It's a bit of an electronic nag so keeps me on track - after much work I've lost @ 5 lbs (big deal for me) since I started using it.

The APP is cool - it integrates several things.  The Blue bar shows total sleep and then sleep patterns, Orange shows number of steps taken, and Green, calories ingested.  You can set your goals for each and then it will measure against them.  So for example I have a goal of 8 hours of sleep each night.  The blue bar shows I hit 51% of that goal or 4 hours and 8 minutes for that particular day.  My steps on the other hand, I'm rockin.  I have a goal of 10,000 a day and I managed over 15,000, and then the green bar I've set a goal of 1,500 calories.  You can scan the barcode on whatever food you eat or pull from local restaurant menus (or you can manually enter) and then it calculates a score.  Maybe a bit geeky but working for me.

All in all a good week and enjoyed spending time in the heartbeat of the USA.