Week 4 Oct 5 - 12, 2008

Tip of the day: Don't walk 18 holes of golf and think you should do a full running workout! Don't ask me how I know that.

My son is home for 4 days before shipping out to Iraq and had two requests of me. One is to play golf and the other was to eat a big juicy steak! Today we took care of the first item. And when I play golf I walk. Keep in mind that 18 holes of golf on the average course is 4 miles of up and down hills in grass, pulling or pushing a 30 lb golf cart. So I had my workout on the course, after the game we went out to lunch and had deep fried pickles and buffalo chicken wings...YUK! I haven't had that kind of food for 4 weeks and it doesn't agree with me anymore. That's a good thing! After getting home and chilling out for an hour or so I decided to go to the YMCA and get my run workout in. Ouch! I could tell that my legs had already done their workout for the day. Because they were screaming at me from the beginning. But I gutted it out for 2.5 miles, just like the Sunday workout. Tomorrow we will take care of zac's second request. Last nights workout was a cross-training night and decided to go to pool. It's supposed to be one of the best aerobic workouts with no impact. It felt great to be in the pool again and I was able to swim a mile (66 laps) but it took me 50 minutes. It was a great workout, and one that I will using more and more often on recovery days.