I had planned on running a half marathon today. I was ready. I knew I could do it. But I just never signed up. I came close. But then I had that thing with my back. I've been taking it easy for the past week. No sense in overdoing it and making things worse.
Today is raceday and the weather is crappy. That's partly why I wait til race day to sign up. You never know what the weather is going to be like. You have to pay a little more if you wait til race day, but you save a lot more if you have a day like today. I think I'll hit the treadmill for an hour. Lucky me?
By the way, Twins had 9 hits last night. 90 more push-ups. Piece 'o' cake.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
What was I thinking
So I had this great idea. I watch a lot of baseball during the summer and I thought maybe I should do something instead of just passively watch the game. I don't know exactly why I thought to do push-ups. I could barely do 10 without passing out. (Now that's an exaggeration because I'm in pretty good shape for a guy about to turn 50) But 10 was difficult. Very difficult in fact.
So here it is, the end of April, and I'm wondering if this is something I can do until October without my arms falling off. The Twins aren't off to a great start but they do have over 190 hits so far. That's 1900 push-ups!! What was I thinking?
So here was (is) my plan. When I'm watching a Twins game, and they get a hit, I'll drop and do 10 push-ups. Easy. It gets difficult when I can't see the game, and then check the box score and see that they had 10 or 12 hits. Ugh.
I had a small dilemma last week. I hurt my back at work and the Twins got 13 hits that day. That's 130 push-ups. I just couldn't. So I postponed them. The next day they got 10 hits. 100 push-ups. Monday was an off day so here's where I did my 130 push-ups. Tuesday they got rained out. Whew!
But they scheduled a double-header on Thursday. This could be trouble. Luckily for me, the Twins played like shit on Thursday and only got 8 hits in the 2 games. 80 push-ups. I can handle that.
You won't believe it, but I can now do 35 push-ups without stopping. That's a long way from barely 10.
I'm going to have to buy bigger shirts soon. I'll keep you posted.
So here it is, the end of April, and I'm wondering if this is something I can do until October without my arms falling off. The Twins aren't off to a great start but they do have over 190 hits so far. That's 1900 push-ups!! What was I thinking?
So here was (is) my plan. When I'm watching a Twins game, and they get a hit, I'll drop and do 10 push-ups. Easy. It gets difficult when I can't see the game, and then check the box score and see that they had 10 or 12 hits. Ugh.
I had a small dilemma last week. I hurt my back at work and the Twins got 13 hits that day. That's 130 push-ups. I just couldn't. So I postponed them. The next day they got 10 hits. 100 push-ups. Monday was an off day so here's where I did my 130 push-ups. Tuesday they got rained out. Whew!
But they scheduled a double-header on Thursday. This could be trouble. Luckily for me, the Twins played like shit on Thursday and only got 8 hits in the 2 games. 80 push-ups. I can handle that.
You won't believe it, but I can now do 35 push-ups without stopping. That's a long way from barely 10.
I'm going to have to buy bigger shirts soon. I'll keep you posted.
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