We met by Kelli's and Scott's house today. I like going there because there are hills everywhere you look. Kelli led us thru a run that took us up some pretty good hills, then we finished with a fairly easy run back to the church. It was a good workout.
Later, I ran some hill sprints on my treadmill; I have a goal of running hill sprints on the treadmill every day for a while hoping to build up some strength.
Then for the fun evening. I play church basketball on a stake team that is mainly composed of middle-aged housewives (sorry, I don't know how else to describe it) and some younger women. Basically all of us just play for fun and exercise. I don't think any of us have had any real training in basketball fundamentals. Usually we play teams similar to us. Well, tonight we played a team composed of younger looking women (probably not many over 30), and several of them looked like they had probably played high school ball. We were no match for them. However, I had fun because it was a very up tempo game, like a track meet, non-stop running back and forth. I felt good because I was able to keep up with them and run the court as well as anyone there. One of the refs even complimented me on my "hustle." It was a great workout. Besides losing by twenty points, I wouldn't mind playing basketball like that every week. |