Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Physical Activity

Yesterday, we finally got a weekend day where we were both 1) home and 2) blessed with good weather.   So, we planted a 15 by 6 foot garden, with peas (very late to be planting, not sure what will grow), sweet corn, carrots and zucchini.   Took about 4 hours total to work the ground, including the mid-morning decision to go rent a tiller.   We were both sore by the end of the day, but felt better today.

So . . . stepping up the activity a notch.  There is a measured indoor walking track at my current client's facility.  8 tenths of a mile each way from my building to the far end of the complex.  So I walked just over a mile and half at work today.   Then after dinner I went around the block twice and the next block over once, chasing little boys on bikes.   Probably 2 miles or less.

And to top it all off, this evening after the boys went to bed, I resumed push ups and sit ups.  When I was 17, the wrestling coach expected us to do sets of "Twenty-five, twenty-five" which was 25 push ups and 25 sit ups in 60 seconds.   We did no less than 8 of them each practice and some times as many as 16 sets.   Wonder if he'd be proud of me doing 5 and 5 tonight.  :-)   Well, I'll work my way up.

As icing on the cake (so to speak -- both icing and cake are off limits) -- my wife also did 5 push ups and 5 sit ups.

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