Virginia Trip

Spent the last 10 days in Virginia.  My parents needed some help around the house and my 2 youngest nieces had a combined birthday party.  Flew from Columbia up to DC on Aug 22, flew back down Sept 2.

The last couple days before I headed to VA, I noticed that my left elbow was starting to hurt after workouts, more than likely either "tennis elbow" or "golfer's elbow."  Both are just over use injuries, so I just need to ease off the stuff that bothers it.  Which is unfortunately most things that utilize my left arm.  Going to be tricky letting it heal up but I'll figure something out.

Just going to list the various work outs I did over the 10 days in one post.  No point in doing a separate post for each day.

8/23/2013 - Friday
My parents had 5 cubic yards of dirt delivered.  Estimated weight was around 12,000 lbs.  I spent several hours moving it from one side of the yard to the other with a shovel and a wheelbarrow.  I would call this Farm Fitness I guess?  It was a forearm destroyer.

8/26/2013 - Monday
Went to see my brother at the Pentagon.  He helped me get a visitor's pass then gave me a quick tour of the building before we headed down to the Pentagon gym.  It was gigantic.  Basketball courts, racquetball courts, a big free weight and exercise machine area, a track, lots of cardio machines, a huge lap pool, and a huge locker room with showers.  This is just the indoor section.  Just outside is an outdoor exercise station with pull up bars, adult height monkey bars, several 15ft climbing ropes, bars for anchored sit ups, and dip bars.  My brother, his coworker, and I changed and then headed outside.  My brother showed me the technique for climbing ropes that he has been working on.  I haven't ever climbed a rope, so my first try I just used upper body, which is great once, but not so good if you need to do it repeatedly.  After that we started our run.  Ran 5mi in a down-and-back course, starting at the Pentagon, heading across the bridge into DC, running next to the Reflecting Pool, then partially around the Washington Monument, back along the other side of the Reflecting Pool, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, then back across the bridge to the Pentagon.  Recovered for a few minutes, then did some random stuff.  Showed them the Leg Blaster workout from Mountain Athlete, did some pull ups, and went across the monkey bars.

8/27/2013 - Tuesday
Stew Smith 130501
10 Rounds:
10 Push ups
10 Crunches
10 Wide Push ups
10 Sit ups
10 Diamond Push ups
20 2ct Flutterkicks

Fun workout.  Good variety of push up and ab exercises.  PRed it in 16:24.

8/28/2013 - Wednesday
Crossfit Brenton
5 Rounds, for time:
100ft Bear Crawl
100ft Standing Broad Jump
*Every 5 broad jumps, perform 3 burpees

First time for this one.  Pretty fun.  The high humidity and the morning dew on the cut grass made it slippery, so I had to be a bit more careful.  Finished in 18:28.

8/30/2013 - Friday
More shoveling dirt.  Decided to add a leg workout into it, so I would make 2 wheelbarrow trips and then do one round of the Leg Blaster workout.  Did that whole thing 3 times (totaling 6 wheelbarrow trips) before I had to help with some other things.

8/31/2013 - Saturday
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21-15-9 reps:
Pull ups
Push ups
Squat jumps

First time for this workout.  Needed a quick one since today was the big birthday party and I knew I would have to be running errands early.  First round was completely unbroken.  Had to break up the second and third round of pull ups.  The rest of the second and third rounds went unbroken.  Finished in 3:43.  Added a couple more sets of pull ups and push ups afterwards.

9/1/2013 - Sunday
Ran with my brother and his wife in our neighborhood.  Easy pace.  Doubled up my calf sleeves on my hurt left shin and wore my trail shoes (even though I was on pavement the whole time).  Left shin felt fine.  Ran a total of 4.79mi.