Saturday

I braved the 103 degree heat (around 4pm) today to go for a 5 mile cross country run in the mowed fields across from my house. I did 2 rounds of 2.5 miles with 100 sit ups and 15 pushups. Felt awesome but DANG – all I could think about for the last 20 mins was an ice cold glass of water!

Week Wrap Up

Thursday- 3 rounds of 50 squats, 15 push ups (on PU bars), 100 sit ups

Friday - Rode my bike to work and back ~12 miles. Played 1 hr of tennis. Played 1.5 hrs of basketball. LOVE FRIDAYS!

Catch up with me...

Friday, July 15th- ran 1 mile intervals X 5 with sit ups, push ups, box jumps, pull ups and chin ups interspersed.

Sunday July 16th - evening tennis for 1.5 hours with my roommates

Saturday - rode 4 miles to tennis courts on bike, played 1.5 hours of tennis, rode back home. Went swimming for an hour in a swimming hole with a rope swing!!

Monday - Played 2 hours of tennis plus 20 push ups, 10 pull ups and 10 chin ups then plenty of climbing on the jungle gym.

Tuesday - Woke up at 6:30am and went for a 1.5 hour walk/run in some fields a couple miles from my house. Later in the afternoon, I ran ran 5 x 1 mile intervals with sit ups, push ups, box jumps, pull ups and chin ups interspersed.

Wednesday - Rode my bike to work and back (~12 miles) then later went for an hour long run in the fields across from my house. Brought back so many memories of my old cross country glory days!!

Pedal, Pedal, Pedal

Just completed my third consecutive week of riding to work Mon-Fri, totaling in about 65 miles each week. Feels great to have such a solid baseline for working out each week.

Today my brother and I went for a 36 mile ride and it felt like nothin! :D

5 days a week

My total cycling mileage for the week: 85

My two goals for the week:

1. ride to work every day
2. beat my roommate in a set of tennis

check and check!

I have so much zest for life right now!

Rides, Garden Work and Barefoot Running

This week my goal is to ride to work every day– that'd be a total of 60 miles logged just commuting. I rode my bike to work on Monday then worked hard in an amazing medicinal herb garden (weeding, spreading compost/topsoil, then mulching) for close to 5 hours, and got a bit sunburned– I mean bronzed.

I was beat by the time I got home, but I still went out to play tennis with a friend around dinner time. It felt good and I had plenty of energy when I woke up the next morning. Tuesday morning, I rode in to work to labor away in the garden again. We did considerably less work than the previous day, but more walking around with tours of our facility than anything. I rode home and enjoyed it a lot. I celebrated the summer solstice by processing 20 lbs of beets to can 4 quarts of sweet pickled beets for 4 hours. I was so ready to be off my feet at the end of all this that I basically collapsed into bed at eleven.

Today (Wednesday), I rode my bike to work in a huge hurry and rode 6 miles in 20 minutes, my PR thus far. I rode back pretty leisurely in late afternoon, pickled some more beets (beets all day err'y day) then went for a great workout at the local fitness trail. I ran about 3+ miles and did 35 pull ups, 20 1 legged step ups, 32 push ups, 5 sets of various crunches/sit ups/bicycles/ab ladders, and stretched while enjoying the sunset. Great evening workout!

City Ride

Today I did a long, morning ride with my dad and older brother for Father's Day. We rode about 25 miles on a hilly, urban route. It felt like I was riding a roller coaster at times– so fun! Since the day hadn't heated up yet the ride was nice and cool and I felt nice and relaxed the rest of the day :)