Does Home Improvement Work Count as Crosstraining?
I’m on vacation this week, but no sunny beaches for this boy. No I spent the last couple days mixing concrete (by hand), plastering and generally working like a dog in an effort to repair a concrete wall in our laundry room. This office jockey is not used to this work and my body is pretty beat up. I was going to run Monday night but ended up working into the night finishing the concrete work. So I thought I would run last night, but same story working until 8 p.m.
So this morning my wife went back to work and I decided I needed to stretch my aching leg muscles, so I hit the trail. The first 15 minutes was pure agony, talk about aching muscles, but once I got everything loosened up a bit I fell into a comfortable pace and completed my 14K/8.7M route. No speed records this morning, a nice easy 5:57/K (9:35/M) pace.
So now I have to shower, eat some breakfast then drive to our local home improvement store and pick up some more material. Then its back to work on the laundry room. I hope I can finish up early enough to head to the swimming pool tonight, I want to practice my swimming before I forget how.
Have a good week.
Comments
DATE: 10:03 AM
No rest for the wicked, eh Jack? Are you still going to run the 10k fall run on Saturday, if you're so beat up?
Posted by: Thomas | July 5, 2006 11:54 PM
DATE: 11:24 AM
Anytime you have sore muscles, it's cross training! Of course, I've been known to call shopping cross training, so what do I know?
Posted by: susie | July 5, 2006 11:54 PM
DATE: 12:53 PM
The caveat to susie's comment is that it doesn't count as crosstraining if beer was involved during.
Posted by: Jank | July 5, 2006 11:54 PM
DATE: 2:42 PM
Hee hee - funny how our bodies can excel at one thing, but something different wipes us out. Glad you had a good run.
Posted by: neca | July 5, 2006 11:54 PM
DATE: 7:47 PM
Counts only if you mix the concrete by feet (like grapes), not by hand!
Posted by: Just12Finish | July 5, 2006 11:54 PM