1 Mississipi 2....Hurry Up and High Five Me!

I got myself out of bed on time today. Even made it to bootcamp early enough to do some warmup laps....but the parking lot was sparse. I found that today none of my other group three people came to bootcamp. We started out with an Indian run while carrying light weights. People chose weights anywhere from 1lb (mostly trying to be funny) to 4lbs I think. I chose 3lbs. It is a big change to run with weights because I'm usually running sloppy with floppy hands trying to conserve my energy in an effort to continue running. Running with weights not only means added weight to my arms, I have to expense the energy to keep my hands in a fist. There were several people who claimed that today they were group three for our runs but the truth of it is that we never actually split off from group 2. (The first time anyways, my butt was walking by the end of the hour)

When that "warm up" as Sgt Laura called it was over we started what we soon found out would be repetitive torture. We did 30 traveling sumo squats, pendulums and karaokes. Which later we repeated two more times for a total of 90 each. Because I failed to listen to directions I did my first 40 or so pendulums as lunge pendulums just to make things more difficult on myself. I find it funny how the more fit people consistently forget to count how many they have done. Here I am counting halves and quarters just to make sure I don't accidentally do an extra one...couldn't have that!

We ended up doing some partner work too on the soccer field we switched partners three times to do three one minute squat holds. Sgt Laura said we'd thank her next time we go camping in the woods or go to a public restroom on a road trip. We then had to do 60 planking high fives. Ok so in the past my partners and I have shared the same strategy that the faster you high-five the less time you have to spend planking. For this particular time I get partnered with an ity bity blondie from group one. I ended up planking there with one hand up waiting for a high five many times even though I specifically told her I can only do these if done quickly. I swear she counted 1 Mississippi 2 Mississippi between each high five. In my head I hear Jim Gaffigan saying "What are you doing here? You're done!"