I guess I run now

Yup, that’s where I’ll be today. I really, really hope they have wireless at the courthouse so I can work & read blogs all day. I should’ve asked tiny2b if this was even a possibility. I really, really, really hope they don’t need me. My students, however, hope I get chosen & the trial runs all semester long.

Bootcamp Wednesday wasn’t terrible. There are some things I just can’t do with anything resembling coordination, like this combo squat to a jump to tossing a 15-pound medicine ball high at the wall to a catch on the way to a squat & repeat…40 times. Oh, and repeat 40 times while the other folks in the camp do sprints up & runs backwards back. They run until I’m done. That’s one thing I’m not going to like about boot camp. Yes, being accountible to everyone else means I can’t just decide to just relax during the plank or during a wall squat cause then everyone has to do another minute or two. But what if I can’t hold it? & OMG, this woman is obsessed with squats of every variety & thinks a good resting position is the plank.

Oh, but there’s another 40-year-old in the class. I just assumed she was younger cause I assume everyone is younger than me…one of the hazards (and joys, I guess) of working with college kids. & she was complaining mightily about being sore on Wednesday too. I didn’t see her try to walk down any stairs (the thing I couldn’t do without screaming), but maybe someone else is in the same boat. I didn’t pay attention to her on Monday cause we were always at opposite ends of the group, but on Wednesday she was having some trouble with stretches that made me think maybe we’d have been better partners.

Oh, so this is terrifying. We’re partnered up so that no one just decides not to show. But that means that if your partner decides not to show, you have to do extra. Shawn’s partner was 5 minutes late, so when class ended & we’d walked the medicine balls & other equipment up to the third floor, he had to do an additional 50 squats. CRAZY!

But boot camp is doable ya’ll. The pain for the next two days is insane, but most of the exercises are just ones that we all did in high school gym classes: sit ups, squats, push ups, squats, lunges across a field, jumping jacks, squats, running, legs up & bicycling, squats, the plank, squats, the plank with legs alternating in toward your stomac, some weight stuff, and squats. The only difference is you pretty much do every exercise until your muscles can’t possibly do any more; then you move on to the next one until those muscles are exhausted. Oh, & it’s outside, so lovely fall weather to enjoy & there’s this boot camp mentality that’s kinda fun.

Okay, that’s all from me. I’ve been doing 2 mile walks on non-bootcamp days & got in 1 1/2 on Wednesday. I’m planning for a run Saturday since it’s not long before my next 5k & maybe a swim on Sunday.

Cheers ya’ll!