Richard Gibney's 365 Days of Fitness: Day 124
Day 124 My parents have been visiting for the last couple days, which has been great. Nicole and I have enjoyed some nice meals with them and tonight we were able to have them over for dinner for the first time since we moved into and fixed up our house. The day kind of ran of away on us as we went to get groceries and tidy up the back patio. Next thing I knew, it was dinner time and any opportunity for a pre-dinner workout were gone. In the end, it was 10:30 pm before I managed to find time for a workout. Not ideal but It was still enough time to squeeze in a workout. I doubt I will sleep well, as late night exercise seems to wake me up but I feel good about getting it in.
Tonight's Workout:
I began my workout by running to the small playground beside the Calgary Tennis club, about 400 metres away from my house. My intention was to use the monkey bars for some pull-ups. I tried, but the bars had too many rungs and made pull-ups too awkward. I abandoned that idea and decided to try and find another playground.
I ran another 800 - 1000 metres to a nearby school where I found a pretty awesome playground with all sorts of things to grab on to and pull myself up from. I used one of the many metal bars and did 17 strict medium grip overhand pull-ups. Kipping was not an option, as I would have smashed my knees on a steel platform connected to the playground structure. I followed up the pull-ups with 50 push-ups, 100 air squats, and 20 knees to elbows hanging knee raises.
After getting some good use out of the playground I ran about 1 km up 14th St to Mount Royal school. I ran into the soccer field behind the school and did walking lunges across from one side to the other. In total I did around 100 lunges. I lost count about halfway because it started to burn too much to focus on the numbers. I also did another 50 push-ups after the lunges.
I ran back down 14th St with the intention of going back to the playground, but when I got to about halfway I noticed that an SUV had stalled and one of its passengers and its the driver were trying to push it down the road toward a parking lot. I decided to forgo going back to the playground and helped them push the SUV about 100 metres intp the parking lot of Boyd's Seafood. This got my legs extra gassed, especially with the effects of the lunges still lingering.
I finished off my late night fun run by running back to the Tennis Club. I snuck into the courts and decided to do a suicide line drill. It wasn't the safest thing as it was really dark and I couldn't see very well but I made due. I sprinted to the middle and far doubles side lines of all 3 courts, Always returning the beginning of the 1rst court. A rabbit decided to play with me while I was running, darting toward me as I sprinted across the courts then bounding away from me as I got closer to it.
The rabbit ran down the street in front of me as I ran home, begging to play some more, but I was tired and it was late. Maybe we'll meet again, but I hope these late night workouts don't become a habit.