I Can Still Compete Damn It!

Jason browbeat me into posting my latest running adventure. I was going to start a blog about guys who used to blog on Dusty Spikes... I guess I can't now.

Last week my sister talked me into doing Platoon Fitness, it's a 6 day fitness course that meets at 6am in a field with a track and does army-like training for an hour, $25 for the whole thing. http://platoonfitness.com/ It's hard as shit. Day one is upper body, two - lower, three - cardio/running, four back to lower, then upper, and the last day is a combo day. I did the beginner level on all the days except on the cardio day. That day I went with the advanced group to throw down (after sizing them up quite a bit), and throw down I did.

We ran to a park that looked a lot like Purcell to do a work out called "chase the rabbit". You get paired up with a partner and one of you sprints ahead on the park's gravel trail and then you have to catch that person before the trail ends, it's about a 400m loop. If you get caught you have to do "25 burpies" - which is a pushup jumping jack thing. I was not getting caught so the instructor kept pairing me up with better runners - like I was advancing through a video game. My last partner, who I think was the second best fit person there, was a tri-athlete of some sort. He had on tri-athlete shorts, aka "here are my balls shorts". I beat him easily and the instructor asked me if I wanted to try to beat Tara, who was the best runner in the group and she was wearing a WILLIAM AND MARRY T-SHIRT! I said "Let's go" and the instructor said not today because we did enough loops (we did about 6) and that we are going back to the track to warm down. Now Platoon instructors like to play mind games, they tack on reps when you think you are finished and such. When we got to the track the instructor said "Ok top ten rabbits on me. We are going to do a timed mile!"

I'll finish this post later. To be continued...