Church Run

These last two days have been somewhat reflective of what we are trying to accomplish. The Preacher has been comparing physical fitness through discipline to mental and spiritual fitness though discipline. Also, we consider the importance of the community to participate and share their fitness(physical, mental, spiritual) with others. We suggest that all things worth while require daily devotion and support.

So, when the alarm clock goes off, we make sure either our feet or our knees hit the floor. We suit up, show up, warm up, crank it up, throw up (optional).

This mornings congregation met at the end of the front stretch. Those aspiring to a higher physical enlightenment did pull ups. We started the workout in the stump garden with a set of stair step aerobics, squats and box jumps. We moved pretty quickly this morning. Our journey took us through the neighborhoods until we reached The Churches.

We go to church for so many different reasons: marriage, funeral, baptism, confirmation, push ups, sit ups, leg lifts ect...

We worked the muscles below our belly button today. At the end of the workout, we did strides on the field.

4 miles, 888 repetitions of various lower body exercise.

Two Miles Out and Back

Emi 19
John S 19
Colby 18
Caroline 18
Lucy 18
Jennifer 18
Harriott 18
Lisa 17
Gary 17
Marc 17
Kerry 16
Charles 16
Kaffee 15
Wendy 15
Cleve 15
Dave B 15
David M 14
Charlie 14
Mary Anne 14
Bob 12
Prancer 12
Cassie 12
Mary Blythe 12
Jimmy F 12
Matty 12
Michelle 10
Jimmy S. 10
Slawek 11
Rich 11
Dave D 10
Terri 10
John Oneill 10
Susan 9
Sally 8
Niki 9
Michael 8
Carolyn 8
Allison 8
Leslie 7
Irene 7
Lauren 3
Steef 3
Molly 2
Lindsay 1

Good news, Emi stuck around and grabbed the top attendance. Bad new, she is going on vacation.

We had a decent crowd this morning. We like to start the week off hammering, usually crazy eights. We received Grace in the form of a brand new field. The "biggest yard in Buckhead" just got better. As the sod was put down this weekend and last nights rain hard, we chose to take our large crowd off camps.

We headed North on Peachtree. Today was concentrated on the core muscles. We did manage to do 120 push ups along the way. We ran an average of 2oo meters (half a lap around the track) and stopped 15 times. Every stop we knocked out core exercise. Peachtree Road United Methodist Church (PRUMC) sits exactly 2 miles away from E Rivers Elementary (the "E" stands for Eretus, we're sure Matty can work that into his act). We did our final exercises on the grass in the middle of the PRUMC parking lot just North of the Alter. Jimmy(speaking for the group) asked for and received mercy.

Exercise complete, we ran 2 miles back to Eretus Rivers. Caroline & Robin shared W1 today.

2 out, 700 repetitions of various core exercise, 2 back.

Old School Platoon style P.T. Run

We stayed close to home today. We had less than 20 participants. We started out in the stump garden. We knocked out 200 reps of stair step aerobics, dips, leg presses, box jumps and over and backs(Side step aerobics). We ran around the school and stopped at the top of the hill, dug out the weights and carried them down the hill to the catty corner of the field. We simulated a TRX workout, did jazzercize with hand weights and V crunches on the bleachers (in 3 groups). We rotated from station to station. Swing set, Weights on track, bleachers. Those got us up to 400. Then, we ran up the center set of stairs and stopped at the picnic benches outside the cafeteria. We laid flat on our stomachs and did reverse leg lifts (kills butt and hams.) We then ran off campus down Ptree Battle. We stopped for sit ups, squats, lunges, took a right on Rivers and continued exercise with stair step aerobics on the retaining wall, then dips, then ran to Muscogee.

We alternated V crunches and squats at the base of Muscogee before hammering up to Ptree. Our total was 800. We exercised on the soft grass on the corner of Muscogee and Ptree (sit ups?) before running back the way we came. We finished exercise at the retaining wall before running back home. Upon our return, we took a squad to the catty corner, retrieved the hand weights, placed them on the drive way, then finished the workout with strides on the field.

3 miles, 1,000 repetitions of various Exercise (we hit everything today, total body). One thousand of anything is a lot.

After 20 opportunities since the Peachtree Road Race:

John S 19
Colby 18
Emi 18
Caroline 17
Lucy 17
Jennifer 17
Harriott 17
Lisa 16
Gary 16
Marc 16
Kerry 15
Charles 15
Kaffee 15
Wendy 15
David M 14
Cleve 14
Dave B 14
Charlie 13
Mary Anne 13
Bob 12
Prancer 12
Cassie 12
Mary Blythe 11
Jimmy F 11
Matty 11
Michelle 10
Jimmy S. 10
Dave D 10
Slawek 10
Terri 10
Rich 10
Susan 9
Sally 8
Niki 8
Leslie 7
Allison 7
J. Oneill 8
Michael 8
Carolyn 7
Irene 6
Lauren 3
Steef 2

Top women Emi, Caroline, Lucy, Jennifer, Harriott & Lisa are getting salty. They appear to be going for it. We can see the eye of the tiger in these girls. They are developing the 1,000 yard stare. They strike fear in the hearts and minds of other women (& Men). They chew up asphault like M&M's.

Neighborhood Stroll

Easy. We know today was easy because we were talking and laughing the entire workout. In the running community, these workouts are called "conversational." The intensity remains easy enough that we are able to carry on a conversation while we run and exercise. We ran to the Duck pond, front of Cathedral, through Baptist parking lot (no stairs today), down to Garden Hills Park, the GH Elementary, then Atlanta International School and finished in the Publix Parking Lot. Of course, we ran back to E Rivers (our home away from home.)

We ran an easy 4 1/2 and did 555 core exercise.

Arms

Yesterday was too hard. It was a beautiful thing to witness but, it exacted an expensive toll. We are going to have to dial it back the rest of the week. We ran strides on the grass, listened to music and worked the muscles above our belly button. We ran an 800 after. The quick Chicks split 95, 91.

Track

The world over, a quarter mile oval is a sacred proving ground where the community can come together for the purpose of fulfilling our physical awakening. PRUMC Boot Camp can go anywhere, any time for any thing. But, our discipline is deeply rooted in a lineage that comes from the TRACK. There is a Track Star is every one of us that is fighting to come out in a beautiful expression of SPEED.

Today we tapped in to the inner Track Star. In the spirit of giving, we took turns bearing the burden at the front of the pack. Each 120 meters down was followed by a walk/jog 80 before another hard 120. At the completion of each revolution, there was a recovery period were we switched our focus from hard running to core exercise. 15 laps, 40 reps per lap.

3.75 miles, 600 repetitions of various core exercise.

Over half way through this session, we can see who will impact their fitness the most:
Name # of workouts
John S 17
Colby 16
Caroline 15
Emi 15
Kaffee 15
Lucy 15
Jennifer 15
Lisa 14
Harriott 14
Charles 13
Charlie 13
David M 13
Gary 13
Kerry 13
Marc 13
Wendy 13
Bob 12
Cleve 12
Dave B 12
Mary Anne 11
Mary Blythe 11
Prancer 11
Cassie 11
Michelle 10
Jimmy S. 10
Jimmy F. 10
Dave D 10
Slawek 10
Terri 9
Susan 9
Rich 8
Sally 8
Matty 8
Niki 8
Leslie 7
Allison 7
J. Oneill 7
Michael 6
Carolyn 5
Irene 5
Lauren 3
Steef 2

Colby missed day one and has not missed another day. This kid is "dying unto himself" in order to be reborn a fast, fit stud.

Church Run

We enjoyed a nice crowd for a Monday morning. For those of us who are tempted to complain about the heat wave, please allow us to remember "the dead of winter."

Buckhead was illuminated this morning by a brilliant full moon...

The Full Buck Moon – July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.

So we rolled like Thunder through Buckhead making Hay. We hit all of our favorite stops working all the muscles below our belly button.

3 miles 726 repetitions on 7/26.