Circuitry Again...

This morning, drizzly and humid, a pretty small tribe gathered at RunTex for our journey to Circuit Workouts. I'm guessing that a lot of folks saw the weather and decided that they would pass on "just" a circuit workout. A few of the Chicago marathon group (Frank, Richard, and Sean) left at the same time on their 7 mile recovery jaunt, but we non-marathoners headed the other way for Austin High School. It was really dark this morning, which I suppose is a combination of the rain clouds and the early start times. Anyway, I ran over with Alex and Shannon, as we brought up the rear of the group, running easily for the warmup. Drills were drilled, and we got the word. Today was circuit workout with 800m runs between.

I paired up with Shannon, and we ended up doing the whole workout together. We did 3 complete circuits, and then foolishly we asked Gilbert if we should stop. "One More" was his response. Okay. The 800's felt fine, but we were a little leg-weary at the start of each running portion after those lunges. Turns out we moved nice and quickly through the circuits, and our 800's were very consistent at 4:00, 4:02, 4:02, and 4:02. Pretty cool, that.

Still huffing and puffing after the last lunges, Gilbert had us all try and do a full crossing of the "monkey bars" that the high school has there for the football players. With the wet rungs, I slipped off just past halfway, which was a little embarrassing. Then, we went to a parallel bar type deal and tried to shimmy up its slight incline and down to the finish of that length of bars, supporting ourselves on straightened arms. Again, I made it to the peak, but failed to be able to finish. Obviously, I need to get back to the gym in a big way. To top it off, we had to try to do some pullups. I managed 2...groan.

Anyway, after that, we were toast, and Shannon and I jogged back to RunTex. A little bit of stretching followed, and then I had to get home for the kids. For the day, 5.7 miles plus 4 circuits of fun and other stuff.