Saturday, December 26, 2009

"Workouts"

So, I composed the skeleton of this post a few days ago when I FINALLY got out for a run....

Being the holiday season, I've had a ton of work-outs:
- Friday (week ago): 12 oz curls last thanks to a yankee swap with festive game night crew
- Saturday: More 12 oz curls, 2oz. shooters and 8oz. wine swigs thanks to holiday rager with friends
- Sunday: Day/night off. The body needs to recover, you know.
- Monday: Hockey (two goals); followed by more 12oz. curls.
- Tuesday: 12oz. curls with work crew
- Wednesday: Weekly dinner with friends -- 2 bottles of wine.
- Thursday: Christmas eve! More wine with in-laws.

Yikes! It was on Christmas eve that I finally went out for a run. Three good miles in the late afternoon. Felt good, and started me (finally, I hope) back on the exercise track.

I got in about 2.5 miles of skate skiing on Christmas day and a full day of skiing today. Good stuff, and it feels good to be somewhat active again. More skiing and maybe some ice skating on tap for tomorrow. It better happen, seeing as I'm finishing a lovely martini at the moment.

Happy holidays boys. Eat, drink, be merry...and maybe get in a workout or two.

VTR.

4 comments:

Steve DiMattia said...

What's a yankee swap?

VT Runner said...

You get together with a group, and each person brings an inexpensive, quirky, fun gift to exchange. All the gifts go into the middle and everyone draws a number. Number 1 picks first (and last). Number 2 picks a present and can either keep it or exchange with #1; #3 picks and can either keep their gift or exchange with #2 or #1.

...And on it goes until the last person gets to keep the last gift or exchange it with anyone who went before him/her. The higher your number, the better. It's fun, especially when there's a hot gift that keeps getting taken from people.

Agricola said...

lots of 1 oz curls on this end too!

Bennu Runner said...

Maybe you could post a photo of your arms? ;)