Friday's Double Workout

If you don't see posts during the week, it means I've not conquered the anti-workout forces in Jackson, Mississippi. And a delay of over two hours on my 5:55 p.m. departure squashed my Thursday night gym workout.

So I was at a major deficit for the week.

Earlier this morning, I was at Bally's for the second of my three personal trainer workouts. I'm learning things that I can do to help with strength in my arms as well as hitting all of the core areas. After I do the last of three next Friday, I may go once a week and have him really push me hard for an hour once a week through the start of marathon season in mid-October. But before I do that, I have to start doing some little things during the week.

I'll get there. I had a one-hour core and strength workout followed by a 30-minute run on the treadmill at a 1.5 incline, half-and-half at 4.7 and 4.9 mph.

Because I literally had nothing better to do (after writing a good bit of my column already for Tuesday and a forthcoming blog post about the Houston Marathon walker situation), I went back to the gym this evening and nailed another 50 minutes on the treadmill -- all at the 4.7 mph.

A 2-hour, 20-minute workout day. Not sure completely what tomorrow will hold yet, but I'll figure it out.