Day 20: The Road to the Track

There are 5 destinations within a 5 minute walk from my house: a fire station, a police station, a good sized Catholic church, the county library head quarters and several soccer fields with a gravel jogging track around it.  Why it took me this long to think of the jogging track I really don’t know.  I usually jog in the opposite direction away from the safety of the track and head on into oncoming traffic. I guess you could say I like to live dangerously or stupidly.  I prefer dangerous. 

My plan for the day was to jog this track with Run Keeper on and give a report on how it was but that will have to wait since there is rain moving in and my back yard was in desperate need of a mowing.  I foolishly thought I could mow and jog.  Understand that I have a lot of yard to mow and it takes all of 80 minutes plus to push mow the whole thing. My house sits at the top of a hill so half it mowing up hill.  By the time I was done doing yard work my energy was drained and if I had jogged that track I would be reporting 20 minute mile or something equally pathetic. 

In all between the garden and the yard I spent over four and half hours “exercising” which I am counting, I don’t care what you think.  I have been over this before but again to justify my decision here is a breakdown of the numbers:

Push Mowing/By hand: 80 Min = 858 calories. 

I feel justified in my decision and physically tired from today’s work.

Daily Recap:

Matt – 80 min Push Mowing

Kelly – 30 min Speed Walk & 30 min Beach Walk