Thurs: long car trip
Fri: approx 75 min/8.5 miles running on the nature trail at Haverford College. We were visiting family who will be moving out of that area soon, and so the run was poignant. Every visit in the past eight years, I've run the trail almost every day, and now we will have no reason to return. This time, many of the flowering trees and bushes were shedding their blossoms, and so I was running on red carpets, and pink, and white, and purple. Flourishes befitting a farewell.
We were also given some household stuff, including a bar and weights! The bar is a so-called e-z curl bar, and not a straight bar, but it's a good addition and still pretty versatile, I think. We'll have to get more plates for it. Too bad we didn't have room for the bench press station because that was up for grabs, but it might end up moving with the family. We also got a pair of 50 lb dumbbells, which I haven't even touched but will be a source of inspiration for the time being, and an odd little step machine which might be fun while watching TV.
Sat: walk on the beach, more time in the car
Sun: hour run on the beach. This was close to the centre of Hurricane Sandy's landfall, and the beach has been completely transformed. The dunes are flattened, the shoreline has changed, including the offshore sandbars (which shift around anyway, but more drastically this time) and an amazing amount of new sand has been brought in and dumped in lines of countless truckload heaps. I had to run at high tide and the footing was really poor. They've also built a new jetty--and, actually, the hurricane uncovered the remains of an old pier that none of us knew about--anyway, to get past the jetty, I had to run a path going up some of the sand heaps, and it was gratifying to feel all the hill-honed muscles kick into gear after 50 minutes of slogging over mushy sand. Not that the heaps weren't loose, but they were a thrilling quick dash up and down.
After much more time in the car, we got home late.
Mon: walk with the dog, bike ride/errands. Maybe I will hit the TM this evening.
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I used to have an e-z curl bar. They're kind of fun to play around with. Do you like yours?
I haven't done anything with it yet--I definitely have enough plates for arm stuff, and I'm looking forward to those, but the plates are holding down the edges of my new and still curly mat!
Any favourite exercises?
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