On the way to PLS.
I think this is Day 22 — We missed 20 and 21 due to weather (we will make up the days off starting next Monday). So my days are a bit off.
Right now, I’m looking for the truck that hit me during my workout. I am whooped.
Today was a freakin’ beast. Coming back from a layoff usually is.
It’s not that I sat on my butt during our time away from the workouts. I’ve run 27 miles since the last PLS workout (13.1 on Saturday, 4.5 on Monday, 5.05 on Tuesday and 5.06 on Wednesday.). And I did 50 pushups and sit-ups each day. But that still didn’t prepare me for the intensity of today.
Paul dialed up the workout to a 9.
We started with Coach Leonard’s circuit. I started with Chips ‘n’ Salsa (dragging feet on a salsa tray). I then moved on the shuffle, ladders, jump roping, running with weighted ball over our heads, inch-worms and then back to Chip’s ‘n’ Salsa.
The next station was ladder drills — but we did everything on our hands. That was tough. Try bunny hopping through a ladder on all fours sometime. It’s harder than it sounds. Really. On the next station, we did jumping jacks with hand weights, followed by suicides with hand weights and then a gauntlet. On one of the suicides, I got to push Paul Lacoste down the basketball court. And I did. Tommy, who is who I try to keep up with, did it twice.
We then ran three laps of the Gauntlett (I don’t know how far a lap is but I figure it is close to a 1/4 of a mile) while carrying a 25-lb. weight and then one without it. From there we ran on the treadmill at 6.5 mph and 7.0 mph for six minutes.
Then we did the last fun station — we bear crawled four times across the aerobics room floor and THEN did five pushups, 20 mountain climbers and four steps forward bear crawling — which we repeated until we crossed the room and back. By this point, my upper body was pretty tired. And I was dripping sweat.
I was tired. But I felt alive.
And that’s what I love about PLS training. It’s a challenge. And beating that challenge sets the right tone for the rest of the day.
Now, to prepare mentally for tomorrow. And take a couple of ibuprofen.