89. Saturday Activity List

1.  Read Augustine.
2.  Read paper by T. Erdel.
3.  Ate three eggs and toast.
4.  Walk in the woods with Sydney and Morgan--Sydney saw and correctly identified a blue heron.
5.  King Gyros.
6.  Pumpkins at the pumpkin patch.
7.  Watched two episodes of American Colony Hutterites.
8.  Workout: (Bike 30 mins; tabata sets of push ups, sit ups, renegade rows; bike 15 minutes)
9.  Tigers baseball and ND football
10.  Blog

88. Minor ouch

Strained or pulled or--who knows, maybe tore?--a calf muscle playing basketball yesterday. Nothing major, just a little painful pushing off and landing.  Gonna go easy on it a little while.  Still, there's a lot of other body parts to exercise, so tonight's workout will be:

P90X Chest and Back + ab ripper X

Shouldn't cause any problems for my moderately sore calf.

87. Tuesday's WOD: Homegrown Filthy 50

We make up our own workouts patterned after actual crossfit workouts.  This was Tuesday's backyard workout for Jeanie and me.

Homegrown Filthy 50

50 wall ball shots
50 box jumps
50 push ups
50 squats
50 pull-ups (d.b. heavy pants for J)
50 double unders (100 regular jump ropes for J)
50 kb swings (25#/15#)
50 burpees
50 situps

J's time= 22:02  R's time= 17:24

86. Freaking Awesome Passage

By now Penelope, Icarius' wise daughter,
Had set her chair across from the suitors
And heard the words of each man in the hall.
During all their laughter they had been busy
Preparing their dinner, a tasty meal
For which they had slaughtered many animals.
But no meal could be more graceless than the one
A goddess and a hero would serve to them soon.
After all, they started the whole ugly business.

(Odyssey, 20.422-30,  Lombardo  trans.)

There's a lot of eating in the Odyssey.  And there's a right way to do it when you're a guest in someone else's house.  The suitors have violated the unwritten code of xenia badly, and thus, their final "meal" they will be "graceless" and "ugly."  What a freaking awesome final sentence.

85. W.O.D. - P90x

Did p90x workout tonight--shoulders and arms.

Played basketball at noon for an hour.  Won 4 lost 1.

84. W.O.D. - Helen

Today's physical exercise included:

14 mile bike ride in what I can only describe as perfect weather.  (Ok, it was a little windy at times, but who cares, really?)

"Helen"
3 rounds of
400 meter run (3 laps in my back yard)
21 KB swings (30# dumbell for me, 20# for J)
12 pullups (12 chair dips for J)

My time: 7:15 (shaved 41 seconds off my time from 8/2)
J's time: 8:30 (shaved 49 seconds off her time from 8/2)