You may recall (and by “you” I pretty much mean “my wife Kelly”, since she’s the only person who I know actually reads this drivel) I ended my last post in a bit of despair (not to be confused with a PIT of despair) about what to do moving forward for effective yet interesting/fun FRA’s (fitness related activities… we’re a couple more uses away from you starting to think “is he using that acronym seriously?”)
Well, I was brainstorming/researching, and did you know that rowing can be a better workout than running?!? Let me stop you there. It’s not. This is the internet, and you can’t believe everything you read here, even if some lame crew-fanatic who never went out past 9pm in college decides something is a medical fact.
But it’s still a pretty good workout, and “something different”, so I decided to give it a shot. Instead of running a 5k, I rowed a 5k. Not bad. I don’t know anything about speed, but it took about 21 minutes, and (I found out afterward) my “drag” setting was at 10… so… yeah?
Anyway, it was fun, I sorta wanted to have another go after a quick break--I decided to bike a (laughably) short 5k as a breather--but thought better of it. Kelly was expecting me home for dinner… and what a dinner it was! Distance 5k row, 5k bike.
I forgot to take a picture because it was so freakin’ good that I just ate it all before it occurred to me how potentially photogenic it might be. We had marinated chicken (sort of a southeast asian marinade… lime, peanuts, spice, cilantro, that sorta thing) on a salad of spinach, pea shoots, red peppers, diced almonds, some harvest grain blend, and a delicious spicy peanut vinaigrette. Seriously, best meal I’ve had at home in quite a while. Ate healthy for breakfast and lunch, too. Good day. Food: A
Weight: 224.2 lbs.
Hey Dan, when you come back out east we will scull down the Connecticut river. Aunt Sally
ReplyDeletereally? not http://youtu.be/z05StkAKKF0? i guess you get points for thinking outside of the box. oh. and it is your blog.
ReplyDeletesounds great!
ReplyDeletefair point. I thought about it, but really the "pit of despair" is not quite as despairing as the Cubs franchise.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my friend Gabe used to think that the Princess Bride was an action/adventure movie until he got older and realized "hey, wait a minute, this is mostly a comedy... Andre the Giant is in it."
he is funny.