Workout Review For 6-22-09 To 6-28-09

Monday (6/22/09) For the first time in my life I went Kayaking. The funny thing is that I lived in a house for 15 years that had a river in the back yard. A couple friends of mine bought kayaks last summer and one of them who is a teacher asked me to go. We left behind my parents house in Sterling Heights on the Clinton River. It took a couple minutes getting use to how quick a kayak moves in the water. I am very familiar with canoes but a kayak was a whole new ball game. The water was a little bit higher than normal as there were a bunch of thunderstorms that have gone through south east Michigan in the past week. We were in the water for about 10 minutes when my first challenge came. A big tree had fallen across the river and had blocked almost the whole thing with the exception of a gap between the branches. I could not get the kayak straight and rode up onto the tree. Since I was so new to trying to steer it I panicked a little. Water starting coming over the front of the boat and there was about an inch more to go before it would start going into the kayak. Luckily I was able to pull myself up the tree and get through it. We had figured it was going to take about 6 hours to do the part of the river we expected. We ended up getting it done in about 2.5 hours. Way faster than what we expected. It was a lot of fun and cannot wait to go again. Next time we are going to try to go from my parents house all the way to Lake St.Clair. We were told it would take about 7 hours to do.

Tuesday (6/23/09) Power 90 Sculpt Phase 3-4 - I did not have a whole lot of time to get in a workout today and I really did not want to spend a hour and a half doing P90X. The Power 90 workout worked out great along with the quick 5 minute ab workout at the end. My friend Chris called me up to go twilight golfing at Maple Lanes. I played ok but not great. While I have been able to hit the ball much farther I still spray the ball here and there. This is one of those courses where you cannot do that as the Maple Trees are a hundred foot tall on both sides of the fairway. I shot 86.

Wednesday (6/24/09) Double Header Softball Game - My team put the worst beat down of all time on our opponents. Final score was 29-0. Its hard to not score a run in softball but somehow it happened. The unfortunate part of the night was we lost our second game 8-7. Seems like we used up all of our runs in the first game.

Thursday (6/25/09) Day Off- Went to the Detroit Tigers game with some friends from high school. While the Tigers did win it was the hottest day I have ever spent at a ball game. It was 93 degrees and what felt like a 1000% humidity. It was ridiculous.

Friday (6/26/09) Golf Scramble - Dad called me up and asked me if I wanted to sub for my mom in a golf scramble. Our team shot one under par and it was a fun afternoon. I did lose more balls then normal as I was trying to go for it on a lot of holes because I could hit the ball about 40 yards further than my teammates (they were retirees so there is nothing to brag about).

Saturday (6/27/09) 2 Mile Run and Boating on Lake St. Clair

Sunday (6/28/09) Day off

This past week was more of a activity week for me than a workout week. I did a lot of things over the week that kept me busy and moving and were things that I like to do.