Day One: Frisbee Golf

by Zack Eustis

Introduction

I have been challenged to commute to work in a different way every day (yeah!) for the entire month of February.  I work at an elementary school that is a half block away from my apartment, making the challenge not unpossible.  The rules are simple: I can go to work in any way I see fit, but I cannot use the same method more than once for the entire month.  I am taking suggestions so don't hesitate to comment with your ideas.  Here are some good ones to get you started:  sledding, jumping rope, crab-walking, skiing, driving, car pooling, finding a bus that goes to my school and traveling to it so it can drop me off, etc.  If you post an idea that I end up using, you will receive credit for it in my blog.  Also, I am keeping a blog.  Every day I will recount my journey to school so check back frequently.

Day One

I packed up my lunch, put on my coat, strapped on my backpack and walked out the door with my trusty Soft-in-the-Middle disc in hand.  The morning was substantially colder than the morning before, but I plowed on undeterred.  I looked down my sidewalk in the direction of the school, pulled the disc back in a forehand grip, stepped on a patch of ice and fell on my ass.  I got rid of the frisbee before landing (1 stroke).

The disc is white which made searching for it in my yard, tree, lawn, and street extremely difficult.  Fortunately three students working bus patrol saw the whole thing and kindly pointed out that my frisbee had landed in the middle of the road.  I watched in horror as a truck approached, but miraculously missed my beloved piece of plastic.  After brushing it off I picked it up and threw it past the attentive students who asked me if I was planning on going inside of the school.  I walked down the small hill where my frisbee landed and tossed it down the side street where the other students were being dropped off (2 strokes).  By now I could see the Charlie Brown statue that I was aiming for and took an ill advised shot missing badly to the left (3 strokes).  I waived good morning to some parents and trotted down the slope and tossed the disk mere feet away from Charlie Brown (4 strokes).  The next was a gimmie as I closed the morning out one over par (5 strokes).  Charlie was so excited that he got to be involved in my first day of this adventure that he agreed to pose for a picture holding the frisbee.  Here are my stats for day one:
Strokes: 5
Falls: 1
Students talked to: 3
Parents talked to: 0
Minutes late to work: 4

Check back tomorrow for a stat update on day two: walking backwards.

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Zack Eustis was Ironman II and sometimes sleeps.