Recovery Day Workout (sort of)

Are you a creature of habit, or do you like to mix your work outs up a bit? How do you motivate yourself to finish the course?

You have to finish what you started," That's what my father always taught me. "It doesn't matter how you finish, but get it done". In my case, I usually finish my week owing about 2-4 miles to my 40 mile goal. Today I owed 1 1/2 miles. 

An amazing book for Run In Mud Obstacle Race Training: Exercises, obstacles, and  more:

I invited my 16 year old son to work out with me and he wanted to the Air Force Physical Fitness Test. Last week he did the Marine's version and this week it's the Air Force. Heck I just wanted to do an easy 1.5, but I am up for the challenge.

The Air Force test is 1 minute of push ups, 1 minute of sit ups, and then a 1.5 mile run for time. I used to be in the Army and we had to do a similar test, but it has been 15 years and I wasn't sure what the past few years of Run In Mud Obstacle Race Training would result in. After a 1/2 mile warm up, we hit the test.

Here are my results:

45 push ups

42 sit ups 

10 mins for 1.6 miles (I went too far)

Afterwards we used the obstacles on the track as a cool down. We have pull up bars, monkey bars, rings, and more. It was a great workout and I got more than just the 1.5 miles.