Saturday, April 25, 2009

End of Week 1 - CPO Academy - Class 159

What a week! It has been very busy and also very rewarding. The days are long and the work continues into the evening. Even today, after a very strenuous bike ride, I did a first draft on our Memo assignment.

This week we met Bob, who taught us how to be a better person, set goals, and ways we can achieve them in an Increasing Human Effectiveness seminar. We also did a nice pool workout and step aerobics during the week. On Tuesday, we had a little team walk and decided on who our team leader was. After that, we had a Pizza social, where each team had an interesting way of announcing their new team leader to the class. It was pretty inventive and fun.

On Thursday, after lots of ideas and still more voting, Class CLIX had its motto. "Honoring the Past, Leading the Future". Short, sweet and to the point. I think it will fit on our wine classes just fine. Also on Thursday, we had a group bike ride with two teams. We rode around the base and some of us took a challenging ride up Texas hill and down the fire road to senior enlisted housing. It was a very good ride.

Friday came and we all breathed a sigh of relief. It had been a long and busy 7 days. We all did some unwinding at the Anchorage Chief's Hut and up at the Rocks and Shoals club where the band "Black Zeppelin" played some good 70's tunes. A friend of mine is the drummer in the band. They were pretty good.

This morning was a little cool and somewhat windy, but I wanted to try the 24 mile circuit out to Chileano Valley Road and back on Spring Hill Rd. I know now why it is called Spring HILL. It was a good 2 hr and 30 min ride and got me over 1000 points for the President's Challenge.

The rest of the day was spent relaxing and doing some homework. In fact, it is time to go and edit the second edition of my memo and print it again for a Peer Review. Busy, busy, busy...

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