I had an amazing discovery today while preparing for my cardio at the gym. See, for a couple of months (since I bought a new pair of shoes to train in) I've had this constant problem of my shoes untying themselves. I had reached the conclusion that the shoe laces were to long. As I was about to jump on the treadmill I decided to make sure the laces were as secure as possible when I noticed a little speck on the side of one shoe. I looked closer and realized it was one final shoe lace hole that I'd NEVER seen before. I laced the shoes up as far as possible and for all three cardio workouts I did yesterday I only had to retie one shoe a single time. Usually I'd have to tie each a couple of times per workout. Sadly, this made my day. So yes, I'm a college educated, somewhat successful person who at age 34, took 3 months to figure out how to tie his shoes.
The weather here has finally cooled off just a bit (we live in Georgia where it's usually hot and humid from March through October) so I decided to shoot a picture of the house last night. I wanted something a little different so I setup a shot to capture some star trails over the house. Total exposure time was 55 minutes (broken up into 99 separate 30 second shots).
I accomplished one of my short term training goals today. I completed 6 pull ups to start my back workout. The first four were very good form and easy. The last two were ugly, but I did manage to complete them. Hopefully I'll be able to add number seven before to much longer. After my glorious set of pull ups I moved on to 3 sets of relatively heavy pull downs, 3 sets of T-bar rows, 3 sets of hammer strength front rows, followed by 3 sets of seated rows, and finishing with 3 sets of straight arm push downs (the last is for the serratus muscles). After my back workout I made my shoe discovery and then completed 35 minutes on the treadmill, incline 12.2 & speed of 3.9. A little later in the afternoon my father and I walked Jack around the lake and then Kim and I took a little faster paced walk around the lake when she returned from work.
I had another 100% on plan day. For breakfast I had an apple strudle scone, 1/2 a banana, facon, and a slice of whole wheat bread. My morning snack was the rest of my banana & yogurt. Lunch was a salad and red beans and rice with sausage. My afternoon snack was a chocolate peanut butter bar. Dinner was Stroganoff Sauce with Beef and Noodles, a spinach salad with olives and peppers, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce and a slice of whole grain bread. Dessert was a white chocolate chunk cookie served warm. Yumm.One more day to Leg Day!
