Halfway there....

Today marks halfway through our first boot camp. Pat and I thought of it as halfway done. One of our team mates laughed and said maybe we should think about it that we still have halfway to go.

Today we had to do the dreaded pull-ups. I truly thought that since this was an outdoor camp, and we hadn't done any yet, that pull-ups must not be in the curriculum. I was very wrong. Not only does the campus have pull-up bars that seem to mysteriously appear this morning, but there are push-up bars. Even with the aide of having a partner "hold" the ankles to provide a leverage, it still seemed nearly impossible. Funny though, on the push-up bars that were about 3 feet of the ground, the pull-ups seemed easy.

We asked, "why do we need to accomplish the ability to do a push up?" Roy did provide us with a real life scenario answer of why everyone should be able to do a push up. If you ever saw the movie American Flyers (http://www.fast-rewind.com/amflyers.htm), you could equate it to "training with my friend Eddie". I still think my husband would either be able to help me over the fence, or that miraculous strength that kicks in when the mom sees the car fall on the baby would kick in for me if I ever found myself in the "real like scenario" that Roy described.

Today seemed like a little circuit training without any accouterments except for our mats. We did some ab stuff, lawn mowers, some walking lunges, running around the court for several circuits. We learned that Johnny Cash does indeed make music to work out to. We also learned that although we are not suppose to imbibe (alcohol) during the 4 weeks of camp that Roy does have some interesting college experiences. (And it didn't involve a mean dog and a fence) Roy seems so fit though and he is off to a long weekend snowboarding in Mammoth. I just hope all this working out will provide me some additional strength for my upcoming ski trip to Snowbird, Utah.

Now we have two weekend days off, without having to wake up early. I'm looking forward to Monday with our substitute coach while Roy is snowboarding. We promised to be nice to her.

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