Mod 4: Day 2 At the Beach

"Commitment starts when the fun stops."

- Robyn Benincasa

This morning I woke up with one of those headaches that make your face feel swollen. I would assume sinus headache. I took a piping hot shower which helped until I shut the water off and then proceeded to clumsily grab my stuff and be ten minutes late picking up my cousin. Doesn't help that we stopped off at Great Adventure late last night and then got home after midnight and fell asleep after 1:30 AM. But I did get up and we did get out there even with storm warnings.

Getting out there and training with the physical ailments that make you want to go back to bed and conquering your training session really does feel good.

We arrived out our slab of cement at the beach and pulled out the hand targets and paddles and got to work right away. I said to my cousin let's do start with 20 jumping jacks counting every other one and she said, "but we did 25 next week." I'm impressed and glad somebody was awake. We picked up where we left off last week and ran through all forward movement drills meaning no kicks that involve pivoting on your foot. That will come later. We did work on foot placement and the difference between your rear leg and leading leg. Next training session I'm going to incorporate some traditional exercises that will help with balance.

After a vigorous warm up we hit the road and went right into a 3 minute run. Now remember, this mod is 3 min run, 90 sec walk, 5 min run, 2 1/2 min walk, 3 min run, 90 sec walk, 5 min run and you are done. Before we finished the first 5 minute run we hit the turn around and headed back. This is good. We completed a mile and a half in under 18 minutes. Before we hit Mod 5 we may very well be at the 2 mile mark.

This morning we conquered the run and it feels great!