Sadat - Mid Way Assessments

This week was another week that i got to see myself improve and do better. I am finding it easier to do some of the endurance activities that i otherwise would have struggled with before. The past few work outs have been a butt kicker for sure.

Monday - We did our HEAT exercises in the HEAT. Running around the track doing doing berpies, push ups, lunges, jump squats, tricep dips, mountain climbers, and back rows, you know, normal Monday stuff. We got through this about 3 times each. I was exhausted, but not exhausted enough to not do some sprints. They felt terribly great. I havent done sprints in forever, but it was a nice experience to feel my legs using all their strength to push me as fast as i could. Good work out Sara.

Tuesday- We had fun with Commander Michelle and Blake. This one definitely left me wanting a long nap afterwards. We were back on the field. We started off with a warm up lap around the track. As soon as we got back, it went to lunges and jumping jacks. Alot of them. Then we did a buddy exercise where we had to hold the ends of two barbells over our shoulders while our buddy held the back end. We would then jog or walk and do as many military presses together for half a lap. The second half was much of the same except we shrugged. When we got back, we did suicide sprints up and down the sides of the sand volleyball courts, mind you the farthest distance we had to sprint was about 90 yards. After that we did berpies, push ups, step ups and did the circuit again except with out the buddy lifts. I felt terribly great again. Thanks for that work out.

Wednesday - Duathlon Day. We had an option of running either 2, 3 or 4 miles followed by a 20 min bike ride on the stationary bikes at the SRC. I chose the 4 mile option. I felt great in the beginning, i had a sizable lead on everyone and thought, hey, i might actually come back first on this one. Too bad i am not Magellan and i took two wrong turns. This cost me a lot of time and CrossCountryGuy and Sara smoked me after that. I think i hit my wall at mile three and really had to slow things down. It also did not help that i wore black on black on black in 100 degree weather. But, i finished in 44 minutes, not bad for my first 4 mile run ever. Biking only lasted 8 minutes because i got back so late.

Thursday - MID WAY ASSESSMENTS. If you look back at one of my first posts, i noted the assessment numbers from day one. A 9:47 mile on the treadmill. 25 sit ups and 46 push ups in a minute. I was out to beat that today. And i am happy to say i did. My mile time outside (which is apparently slower than doing it on the treadmill) was 8:07. Thats a huge improvement. almost a full 2 minutes. I felt great about that. Sit ups, i didnt think i would improve on at all, but this time i got 47 in. Wow right? Push ups, i thought no way is there a chance i can get more than 46. So i started off fast and got 38 done in the first 30 secs, in the last 30 i added another 11 and finished with 49. I like this class.

Thanks to all the trainers and people in the groups for keeping us all going. I look forward to this everyday and were half way there people.