Week 6 Day 2 - Making Up for Flaking Out

Good Grief! I can be such a flake sometimes. I got home from TriZone Run Training Wednesday night where we ran around the Legend Oaks neighborhood doing Christmas Lights Fartleks. It's kind of fun... you run normal or slow when passing a house that is not decorated and speed up when passing a house decked out with Christmas lights. If the decorated houses are consecutive, then the speed stays fast until an undecorated house comes along and vice versa. I had every intention of doing the pushups that evening but I saw a red Netflix envelope had arrived in the mail. The movie was "The Kids Are Allright."  I quickly ate dinner and sat down to watch the movie. The movie is kind of a tear jerker and I was in awe of the two women  - Annette Bening and Julianne Moore - who hardly wore any make up in this movie and therefore did not have the usual Hollywood glamour that I'm used to seeing them in. Needless to say, I went to bed and forgot all about the pushups.

Today, while working on some computers scheduled to be returned, I decided that I would shut my door and just get cracking on the pushups. I even made a little list that I could cross off while I rested in between each set so I wouldn't forget my place. The maximum required was 58 and I targeted 65. I paused a few times, but only for a second or two, to get to 70 but I didn't stop. I paused at 15, 30, 40, 48, 55, 65 and finished at 70.

MY OBSERVATIONS:

• I think that keeping my legs at hip width apart while stayingon my toes - is the ideal position to be able to maintain good form without collapsing or giving up.
• Being mindful of my head staying in line with my spine keeps me from having to bear the extra weight of my head.
• As always, keeping the abs and glutes engaged and/or braced distributes my body weight without loading the arms and chest too much.
• Pauses in between will get me to 100.
• Counting in 10's or 15's is a great way to get chunks out of the way.

Week 6 Day 3 will be in Galveston. The next challenge I'm toying with is the 30 day Yoga Challenge. I'm thinking of doing it precisely because I'm NOT a yoga fan. Maybe this will change that or confirm that I'm really not the yoga personality. More to come.