The weather has been pretty perfect for taking many of my clients outside for boot camp style workouts. This particular client and I met at 6:45 this morning for a walk/run strength training session. We power walked for 1/2 mile while stopping along the way to do lunges, push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, chest presses, rows, etc. At the end of the 1/2 mile, we turned around and ran back to our starting point. We did this two to three times and then ended our session with some planks, quadrupeds, and stretching.
During our run portion of our workout today, we almost ran over a fawn that stepped onto the trail right in front of us. Seconds later we saw its dad standing by the trail. We were so started that I didn’t get a picture!
Yesterday I had another client doing a kettle bell workout when our community lawn crew came through. We had to grab our stuff and run to the un-mowed naturalized area so we wouldn’t be in the way!
I’ve got a little problem here that is quite shocking! My “Race Registration Confirmations” folder is empty. 🙁 I’ll sign up for the local turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning, but other than that I don’t have any races planned until spring. What’s a girl gonna do? My BRF is doing a duathlon this weekend, but I have a scheduling conflict and couldn’t sign up for it with her. Plus I haven’t been on a bike in about twenty years. And I kind-of-sort-of-sold my bike at a yard sale…
Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to my Cruiser friend Vamshi. He injured his foot earlier this summer and has been slowly building his mileage back up. Last weekend he successfully ran a 10K and sent me this picture from the finish line. Cruisers rock!
Last week after the race, Bill and I stopped at Panera to grab a sandwich on our way home. I know that I’m not supposed to photograph food from above, but I had to take a picture of this straw. It was the almost the same diameter as a dime! BTW, that’s my water and Bill’s chocolate-mocha-latte-coffee-whipped-creamy thingy.
Here’s a better picture that even the writers of Blogging for Dummies would approve of! Well, maybe they wouldn’t approve of the iPad on the table and having a person’s arms in the picture…
It’s Friday afternoon! Enjoy your weekend!
- Questions:
- Have you ever done a boot camp class?
- What races are on your horizon?
- Do you like chocolate mocha latte (or whatever they’re called) drinks?
I’ve never done a boot camp class but made one up for myself. I’m not a fan of classes where other people would be looking at me working out and sucking air.
Got a race on Sunday, then the next Sunday, then the next Friday. Then just holidays races (Halloween, Turkey Day, Jingle Bell Run) after that, though I haven’t actually signed up for those 3 yet.
I hope your leg holds up for your races! Good luck!
I’ve never done a jingle bell or Rudolph race. Maybe this is the year I try one!
Thank you!!
I’ve only been running this year so I’m excited to try all these fun themed holiday runs. One of my best friends secretly started doing C25K to be able to run the Halloween one with me as Batman! 🙂 I’ll be a penguin!
That will be so fun! Can’t wait to see pictures!
Your boot camps sound like fun! I’ve never really done workouts like that but I made one for Kelly and I and we did it on Tuesday. It was only 15 minutes but man were we sore for a couple days after! I think it will do our bodies good to do different exercises!
I’ll be interested to see what other races you sign up for this year! My folder is kind of empty, but I’m liking that!
Good for you for making up your own boot camp! Isn’t it amazing that despite the amazing shape you two IronMen are that 15 minutes of different types of exercises can make you so sore? 🙂
It’s actually crazy! We’re going to incorporate it into our training at least once a week!
Your boot camp sounds an awful lot like mine- dodging sprinklers and lawnmowers! Have a great weekend!
And dodging wild animals!
I’ve never done a boot-camp, though I imagine that some of the workouts I did for preseason basketball in college would count!
My next race is my marathon!!
I love cafe mochas!
Panera does have the most ridiculously large straws. I MISS Panera. Wildflower is a close second, but I do love Panera.
You’d love Buffalo Park… they have little stations all of the way around the 2 mile loop so that you can get some strength and agility workouts in along the way.
Buffalo Park sounds like a great place for me to take my clients for a run and workout!
I love how you’ve taken your clients outside to adapt the workouts while your basement is renovated! You better be careful… they may not want to go back into the gym. I have the Virginia 10 Miler in Lynchburg this weekend and then nothing until Charlotte. After that it’ll be a Turkey Trot 5K and then a Jingle Bell 5K, both in Roanoke, just as fun runs to wrap up my year.
I do not like chocolate mocha latte thingys, because I do not like chocolate (except for York peppermint patties). I prefer my coffee black and don’t really care for any of those frozen or fancy coffee drinks. But I do have a soft spot for certain pumpkin lattes from a certain Moby Dick-themed coffee shop.
Trust me; as soon as it gets hot and humid or really cold they’ll be ready to return to my climate controlled gym! 🙂
No races?? Unbelieveable! Which Turkey Trot are you doing?
I love the idea of your boot camp! I think about doing that on runs sometimes – run half a mile, do a workout, run half a mile, do another, etc. etc. Maybe I’ll try it sometime!!
My next goal race isn’t until April (WHAT SO FAR?!), but I’ve got lots of other races sprinkling in there to get me ready for it, including a few of the Fall Backyard Burn Series trail races (come run with me?) and hopefully a few more 50ks.
The turkey trot that we do is on Thanksgiving morning and put on by the local Methodist church to raise money for missionaries in Uganda. This will be their 20th annual race, and it’s grown to 2,700 runners for the 10K, 5K and 2K fun-run combined.
Sorry I haven’t replied to your email about running the Backyard Burn trail race with you. I am toying with the idea, though. Do you know how crowded they are, and do they have packet pick-up on the morning of the race? I think it would be fun!