Friday Fun Day

Monday we meet at 7AM. Please invite friends, family, neighbors, friends, friends at the office, children, friends of children, strangers (but not too strange), people at the pool, people at the cookout, people at the park, at the bar, sitting next to you at the braves game, stopped next to you at a red light, at church, at the grocery store, at the zoo, at the gas station...

Friday fun day was fun. Jeffrey always keeps us smiling. The horses got kicked off the golf course. Why were they on the golf course? Oh well, no one threatened to break their legs.

today's participants:

Kaffee - 15
John S. - 15
Prancy - 14
Kerry - 14
Gary - 13
Marc - 12
Matty - 12
Caroline - 11
Lucy - 11
Mary Anne - 12
Shana - 11
John Oneil - 9
Irene - 10
Dave D - 9
Dave B - 9
Harriott - 8
Allison - 7
Charles - 8
Jimmy S. - 8
Katie H. - 8
Jennifer - 5
Sally - 6
Lisa - 6
Michael - 5
Cassie - 3
Amy - 2
Susie Mac - 3
Emi - 2

BriX

In a more uncivilized time, PRUMC Boot Camp used bricks to exercise upper body muscles. These days, we use 5 pound hand weights. We make up for our pampering by doubling up weight (holding ten pounds in one hand) on a few exercises.

We started a little different today. We gathered at the top of the front stretch next to the children's playground. We took turns doing pull ups and a little stretching. Then we ran all the way up the back stairs to Peachtree Battle and lined up. We staggered the start of the Muscogee Mile. We gave the foxes a decent head start before we let the horses chase them. It was quite a finish. The pack was together for the home stretch.

We made our way down to the track and grabbed some weight. The ladies made a group and the gentlemen made a group. We took turns doing upper body exercise while the other group ran strides. Everyone took it medium. After about a half hour of wearing out our shoulders, back and arms, we took off our shoes and ran about a half mile of strides on the grass. Barefoot running is a little bit of a craze. We did talk about running form and foot strike in between 120 meter barefoot strides.

Who showed today:

Kaffee - 14
John S. - 14
Prancy - 13
Kerry - 13
Holly - 13
Gary - 12
Mary Anne - 11
Carolyn - 10
John Mears - 10
John O - 10
Shana - 10
Wendy - 10
David B. - 8
Mary Blythe - 8
Charles - 7
Jimmy S. - 7
Katie H. - 7
Stephanie - 6
Lisa - 5
Michael - 4
Steef - 4

Church Run

We ran up Peachtree St., Down Lake View, past the Duck Pond and up the back driveway into the Christ the King Courtyard. Then we crossed over to the Baptist back yard, ran down the hill toward Garden Hills Pool, then left and up the hill back to and across Peachtree St. We crossed Peachtree twice on our way back home.

Along the way we stopped on any wall or grass or AstroTurf we could find and worked core muscles. In all, we did 700 repetitions. Including warm up we ran 4 miles.

Attendance:

Kaffee - 13
John S. - 13

Prancy - 12
Kerry - 12
Holly - 12

Gary - 11
Jim - 11
Marc - 11
Matty - 11
Michael G. - 11

Caroline - 10
Lucy - 10
Mary Anne - 10

Carolyn - 9
Chip - 9
Cleve - 9
David G. - 9
John Mears - 9
John O - 9
Niki - 9
Shana - 9
Wendy - 9

John Oneil - 8
Irene - 8
Dave D - 8
Dave B - 8

David B. - 7
Harriott - 7
Mary Blythe - 7

Allison - 6
Charles - 6
Jimmy S. - 6
Katie H. - 6

Jennifer - 5
Katie - 5
Sally - 5
Slawek - 5
Stephanie - 5

Lisa - 4

Michael - 3
Cassie - 3
Steef - 3

Sean - 2

Amy - 1
Casey - 1

Diagonal

There are no slow people in Boot Camp. Starting sometime last winter, in the teeth of cold spell that seemed to never end, we laid down a base that has given us power and endourance. Now, we are building speed on top of the base. Easy, medium and hard strides activate fast twitch muscles that enable us to traverse the earth with primal speed.

Today we warmed up easy with a set of suisides. We split into 4 groups at each corner. The first group started on the 3rd turn, the second group on the first turn, the 3rd group on the Fourth turn and the most important group on the second turn. Then the second group ran diagonally to the 3rd turn passing the first group on their way to the first turn. Apon reaching our respective turns, we commenced to exercise lower body muscles. While 1 & 2 were exercising, The Most Important Group (MIG) ran from the second turn to the fourth turn passing the third group leaving the fourth turn arriving at the second turn. Apon reaching each respective turn, we exercised lower body muscles while 1&2 ran. There are always two groups running while two groups exercise. This routine is dead medium. The miles are fewer but the exercises are greater.

We estimate 3 miles, 750 repetitions.

We were reminded today how important it is to make visitors feel welcome at our house. Individually, we are the kindest most charming types you may every meet. Collectively, we are a wild pack of beast that intimidate and strike fear into all of those outside the pack.

Crazy 8s

Big, Fast.

We had our usually large Monday morning gathering. It seems that penance is due at the end of every weekend. We are grateful for everyone showing up this morning and working hard. Okay, school is out. Yet, we still have a decent crowd. So the mass exodus to the oil slick hasn't begun. Great. Since we are all in town, lets keep this group together for the entire week. What "the entire week" means is we get up and work out every morning (rain too). Imagine what this group would look like on the 4th of July if we all show up and work together for the next 5 weeks. Simply put; the finest group of people every assembled anywhere in the history of all man kind. Over the top?

We have this little routine we do where we run on the infield. We run fast diagonally across the field, then jog slowly across the "end zone" and run fast for the opposite diagonal. We start slow and turn up the speed just a little bit every diagonal. The pace increase is so slight that we hardly notice. In the end it looks like a jail break; Crazy leg running.

This morning we stopped every 2 1/2 passes for exercise. We did all core work this morning.
5 miles, 500 repetitions.

FROM LEFT: Hot Mom Holly, Mighty Mary Blythe, Marc, Wonderful Wendy, Michael, The Fabulous Jeffrey holding The Cute Kaffee, Cleve, Carolyn "legs"

FRONT: John S., David G., Prancy, Matty

BACK: Boss, Jim, G , Chip H., Dave D.

Almost Heaven

The concept of heaven in Islam differs in many respects to the concept in Judaism and Christianity. Heaven is described primarily in physical terms as a place where every wish is immediately fulfilled when asked.

We Asked for quite a lot this morning and got it. It was a thing of beauty. Gracious and lovely maidens gaily prancing about with the finest of gentlemen accompanying them in their strides. The air was clean and crisp. The geese and other fowl flew. The earth was compassionate and forgiving.

We hammered 5 miles and reeled off 500 repetitions of various core exercises. It was no joke.