Nice weekend

Had a really nice weekend this weekend ... the weather finally managed to stay nice for the entire weekend which was really encouraging.

I did the Trial for the Hundred Pushups plan on Friday ... rather disappointing that despite all my exercise over the last few months I could still only manage 5 ... rather bummed by that, although I suppose my exercise to date hasn't been focussing on Pushups ... it's been focussing (mostly) on Triathlon stuff, which is more about endurance than power.  Still, that puts me in the bottom group for the Pushups Plan which is a wee bit of a blow to the ego :)

Lynne and I went and did the Impact (pseudo-boxing) class on Saturday morning.  This time we had our new wrapping for our hands so as to hopefully avoid some of the bruising and other damage to the knuckles that we both got last time.  Personally I think this helped quite a lot.  I still managed to raise a blister over the knuckle of my right pinkie but I have none of the bruising or stiffness that I got last time.  The workout was a hoot.  Very energetic and quite carthartic.  All about punching stuff (bags and pads) at varying intensities ... the class runs to just over an hour and seems to fly by.  I found I got the rhythm of the thing better this time than the first time and really enjoyed myself.  Got a bit of a sore tailbone from doing situps on the hard floor but had a great time.  As an added bonus I weighed myself while we were there and the downward trend has continued, which is good.

Sunday we took the bikes out for a bit of a spin.  First time for Lynne on the 'new' bike she bought on Trademe.  Jazz's old bike was proving just a bit too small for Lynne to get comfortable on so she bought a slightly bigger framed one second hand.  Notwithstanding the fact that she had never ridden the bike before and that the seat turned out to be fairly uncomfortable, the ride went very well.  We rode down the gravel road that runs beside the Hutt River from Moonshine Road down to Silverstream bridge.  That's about a 12K round-trip.  Not super long but a good try out for a new bike.

Today I did Week One Day One of the Pushup Plan.  The final Set in the plan is Do as Many as You Can ... so today I managed 8 ... which is obviously an improvement over the trial number, which is cool - progress already.