Another catch up post:
Tuesday
Got in a solid 10 miler with some strength/core work thrown in for good measure. The weather was great – sunny, breezy, warm and not a cloud in the sky. I almost wish it would stay like this all summer.
I mixed up a bottle of Melon flavored HEED and took it with me on the run. I don’t particularly enjoy carrying fluids but was able to drop the bottle off at the side of the soccer fields and drink from it every couple of loops. 80% of tonight’s run was on grass – a little repetitive, but the softer surface is much less stress on the legs. Good run!
Wednesday
Somehow, on Wednesday morning, I managed to slip off the bottom step and land awkwardly on my heel. There wasn’t any discomfort at first, but as the day wore on the area about my left calf started to feel tight and quite sore to touch. The evening five miler loosened things up a little, but I decided to skip Thursday’s run and take a rare rest day instead.
Of course, a tweaked calf is no excuse not to do push ups, so I finished off Week 5 of the Hundred Push Ups plan in good style:
18 18 20 20 17 17 20 45 for a total 175 push ups.
I’ll continue with the next test and Week 6 some time over the weekend and then hopefully I’ll be doing the hundred in about 7 days time – right before the launch of my book 7 Weeks to 100 Push-Ups! It still hasn’t sunk in that I’m a soon-to-be-author. Maybe when I see it in Barnes and Noble or Borders, it will finally hit home!