Well, seven sessions down, eight to go.  Before I start rambling about working out and being out of shape, I'll throw this out there - I'm going to try to conserve words.  I realize that I'm getting a tad verbose in the reports.  Fletcher is trying to inspire me to keep it short by forwarding sarcastic emails he has sent.  Of course, Fletcher's emails are just short because he's lazy, not conscious of the time of others.  I'm trying to look out for you guys....

We started with the usual - sadly that includes some push-ups.  For some odd reason, I was able to do a few without collapsing.  (when I say a few, I literally mean a few)  After stretching, it was directly outside.  This is where the real fun began.

We were supposed to run three laps of "Catch the Leader" (Indian Relays).  The instructor on our side of the parking lot only had us run two.  When he realized he screwed up, he just had us run a long sprint to make up for what the other group had done.  Then the entire group sprinted the length of the entire parking lot - about 300 yards each way.  That wasn't fun, especially after our "oops" sprints.

After a quick water break, he decided to inspire us not to put our knees down during push-up time.  He lined us all up in the dirt (not quite mud, but definitely no grass) and put us in a push-up position.  ugh.  We did push-ups in the dirt for awhile.  Then he had us put our toes on the top of a park bench and do some more push-ups in the dirt.  Even though the push-ups weren't pretty, I didn't put my knees down.  He also had us "cherry picking" in between sets of push-ups.  Who would have thought raising three fingers in the air and picking imaginary cherries would be painful?  I imagine they do a lot of this in Guantanamo Bay.

We concluded the morning with some more work in the parking lot.  We had to squat thrust (jump) 3/4 of the way down the parking lot.  At first this didn't seem like it would be too bad.  I totally missed the boat on this prediction.  It ended up being about 25 parking spaces worth of jumping.  I didn't quite get passed by any of the females in the class, but it was close.  And it wasn't pretty.  After that, he had us lunge-walk the same distance and then sprint back to the starting line.  About six women in the class passed me on this one.  At that point in time, I had no shame.  Who am I kidding, I signed up for this class with Fletcher, so obviously I have no shame.

That was it.  It was a hard workout, but a pretty good one.  I'm a little sore, but still pretty tired.  I got up and ran at 7 on Sunday morning.  That seems to be a good time for me.  :-)  I need to find new work.

(Short) Observations from Today:

- I'm only in worse shape than a few of the out-of-shape, middle aged women in the class.

-  I can't run very well.  I think my last sprint resembled a baby giraffe on ice.

-  Just knowing Fletcher is getting me ragged on during the class by the instructor.  He referred to us as Beavis & Butthead.  Not sure which one I am.  Really, I think Fletcher is both.

Hope you are all having a good week.  PT Test on Thursday.  Here's hoping the numbers improve!

(Crap, this is still 600 words!  UGH!  Sorry.....maybe next time!)