Day 26

Church Run Backwards

3 miles, 500 repetitions of various core exercises. We took it really easy for the first 30 minutes. It was mostly down hill running with frequent stops and lots of conversation. People love the Monday morning workout. It is an opportunity to catch up with our workout buddies and reset our body clock for the weekly grind. We performed V crunches, flutter kicks, plank crunches, stair step aerobics with a twist & crunches during the warm up. The conversation stopped and the workout began with a) 20X6 count ab builders, b)100 bicycles and c) one mile slightly up hill at race pace.

We stretched after the workout.

We have a large group of participants that worked out all winter. Spring is here. As the clothes come off, people will know. The commitment to the daily grind, the accumulation of the weeks and the progression of fitness that come with it will be evident.

Congratulation to Dave Baker. Dave ran 3:35 for the Atlanta Marathon which qualifies him for The Boston Marathon. In the suddenly popular marathoning world, being a "Boston Qualifier" is a cut above. When marathoning snobs talk, the first question they ask is "have you ever run Boston?"

"Have you ever been a sub-seeded qualifier for the Peachtree Road Race?" Have you ever warmed up down the middle of Peachtree waving to your friends, then slid by the police baracade and inbetween the fences to the starting line; rubbed shoulders with the fastest men and women in the world and lined up right at their heels? Have you ever stretched against the press truck then stood at attention for the Star Spangled Banner facing 55 thousand people while a half a dozen heliocopters whizzed over head? Have you ever sipped water in Piedmont Park with a four digit # pinned you your shorts? Ever finished in the top 1,000?

Want to? PRUMC Boot Camp!