Wednesday’s Workout 11.10.10
Hey kiddos! Just dropping in to chit chat about last night’s spontaneous workout.
A couple of my teammates and I have an unspoken agreement to sort of workout every Wednesday. Whether that means a small team practice, soccer tennis, or even just a run around the park - we always try to get something in.
That said, last night’s workout almost didn’t happen.
Kelly dropped out, leaving myself and Catherine as the last two women standing. Secretly, we both wanted to bail and eventually, the destiny of our run was left in the hands of a few open ended text messages.
The final message, from Catherine to myself: “I’m good either way. I don’t feel like running but I know I’ll be happy if I run.”
The decision was in my hands.
It took me a few minutes to respond.
I could think of a million excuses to not run ——
- It was windy and I hadn’t brought a sweatshirt.
- Real Housewives was on (was it?).
- I was tired.
- I would run in the morning……
(No. No I wouldn’t).
Who did I think I was kidding? Surely, not myself. I’m too clever for that.
And that’s when I texted her back.
“Let’s run…….can I borrow a sweatshirt?”
And so we ran.
And I did borrow a sweatshirt.
(And I still have it).
We decided to run 2.2 miles around the Silverlake Reservoir, and roped our pal Anouk into coming with us (Anouk didn’t have a choice. She is a dog).
In the course of our run, we learned that Anouk runs at an approximate 10.15 min/mile pace. Catherine says Anouk is just out of shape (actually we just blamed our leisurely pace on the dog since she couldn’t protest).
We (the humans) were both happy with our pace anyways.
Considering we almost didn’t run.
After our trip around the reservoir, we decided to engage in a series of muscle toning activities, like pushups, dips and such. Here’s a (sort of) breakdown of what went on:
- Pushups (3 x 10)
- Chair dips (3 x 10….minus the 30th which I collapsed halfway through)
- Planks (2 x 60 seconds)
- Single arm/leg extensions for back (2 x 24)
- Bicep curls w/resistance bands (3 x 30)
- Side Planks (1 x 60, each side)
- Deadbug Ab Exercise (1 x 30)
- Miscellaneous other ab excercises (did not record)
- Lunges (1 x 24 then strained my hammy so I stopped)
We partook in these exercises in a leisurely fashion while talking soccer and watching Top Chef: Just Desserts.
Anouk did not participate in the muscle-toning activities.
We did, however, manage to tire her out just from the run alone:
