Short Run, Long Drive

Some days you just know you're not going to be able to get much exercise in. Joy and I drove down to Athens, Georgia to attend her sister Esther's high school graduation. With the long drive looming in front of us, we both woke up early and cut our runs a little short to get on the road.

We had driven to my Dad's house outside of Charlottesville on Thursday night to make the drive a little shorter. In exchange for the free housing, I was charged with cutting the grass. So, after my hilly 8 mile run, I pushed the mower around for a while and racked up basically all of the steps that I would earn for the day.

I did get to add a little excitement into the morning before we headed off. The storms overnight had caused a bit of water to pool in my Dad's boat cover. I decided to be a nice son and empty it out. To do so I had to jump in the lake and that's when the fun started. In I went - PEDOMETER AND ALL! Whoops. Lucky for me, my trusty pedometer still worked when I got out. Or maybe it didn't...my step total for the day was nothing to brag about. But, sometimes you just have those days where other things take priority over getting in your exercise. I make sure not to make those days the norm.

5/28/2010 | Daily Step Total = 16255