What Was Your Work Out Today?

AnnPT77 wrote: »

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Helped with an on-river litter pick-up today. The river was up, so the normal places that have camps were underwater. We did collect quite a few tents that were tangled up in the brush along the banks and some other weird stuff. I found another *kitten*. Yep. I found one on the last trip, too. Very weird. My friend found a nice bicycle multi-tool in good condition and a bag of cheap rope in decent condition. Also a "Pack and Play" crib, some tires, a bunch of empty pop bottles and beer cans, a couple butane bottles, some polystyrene, and some old, waterlogged errant float toys, one of which was full-up with ants.

I took a shower when I got home.

River clean-ups can be interesting. My rowing coach once found a prosthetic leg.

This is the second one in a row I found a sex toy.

I got a plea yesterday for more folks to come help. I said sure. I found another person so I could take the tandem canoe; it's a really good tool for this kind of work. There was one other canoe who also came last-minute. Otherwise it would have just been staff from an agency and a non-profit on one raft....

Last time was last fall. The folks at the non-profit still joke at what I found. There's an awesome picture that will never be shared with general members.

So I called a friend last night to see if they wanted to maybe join me. They did. But when I called and told them there was a river clean-up I was going on, they asked if I was taking bets as to how many sex toys I would find. I didn't plan to find any, but there ya go. Very odd indeed.

It was eye-opening for my friend. They had never done a river clean-up. It's so sad to see what gets "lost" in the river. It's so sad to realize how many people don't have a home and don't actually want to live in other people's squalor. Paddling up a side channel and under a bike bridge, a cyclist yelled down "Thank you." That was nice. Also, when the raft got out to clean up a BIG pile of stuff, someone camped there asked if we had any garbage bags, and they started help clean the place up. Most of the people in these camps don't necessarily want to be there. Some do. Some are anti-social. That's who we clean up after. Others are just in an awful circumstance in life.

Feeling better today than last 3 days and hoping to feel even better tomorrow. Elliptical 210 minutes for 16.3 miles. Thought I would get another session in today but I had to cut the grass. I have a unit employee picnic tomorrow and made a big bowl of broccoli salad to take. And all that pretty much filled my day.

Elliptical for about an hour, 3.6 miles, most in HR zone 3, with dips into zone 4 for some intervals at the end. Unlike @swimmom_1 I did NOT get up at 6 to do it.

Instead, I spent most of the day whining and being grouchy that I didn't get enough sleep last night. I eventually told myself to shut up and get my grumpy butt onto the machine. In the end, I went a pretty decent pace (for me) and felt pretty good doing it. I guess I should reflect on the NSV of that. Instead of "self-medicating" my grumpiness with a bag of chips, I chose to workout instead. I'm tired, but my mood is improved. I'm betting the chips would not have had the same result.

Was feeling better going into the weekend and then let my guard down on Saturday and got glutened. I'm celiac, so that is my fault. I need to be more vigilant.

After having a migraine headache for all of Saturday night and sleeping like an hour, I did manage to get a 30 minute row in yesterday in my garage with the Evap Cooler. It was already around 95 degrees outside. Then splashed around in the pool for around an hour. Managed to do a few supersets last night with complex chest, legs, shoulders but not as much as usual.

Got a great night rest last night. Much needed.

The workout was:

15 minutes to find a heavy double push press
15 minutes amrap (as many rounds as possible) of 10 handstand push ups, 20 american kb swings, 40 double unders.

My wrists have been hurting all day so I was not feeling it at all. I took it easy on the push presses but I also scaled the handstand push up to seated db presses and the double unders to 25 air squats.
Normally I like to use the 20kg kb for the swings and the 10kg dbs for the seated presses but today I used the 16kg kb (the normal amount they expect women to use, even the top athletes) and 7,5kg dbs because I needed to take it easy. It hurt. I did 4 full rounds and 25 reps but I had to fight for every single one of them. I am so tired.

Leg Day!

Squats, RDL, leg press, leg extend/curl