Fourth of July craziness

I have to say my 4-day July 4th weekend was a bit nuts even for me. If you're a single mom and your kids are gone for 4 days... well, sometimes you just don't know what to do with yourself. I knew I would find my normal workout routines and maybe do some stuff around the house, but it turned into an overachiever weekend. Needless to say by Sunday, all I wanted was a nap.

 

Thursday was 18 holes of golf on Wildcat. This has to be the hardest course I have ever played. I really suck at golf, so all of them are pretty hard for me. I played with my brother who is really laid back and isn't always trying to correct my swing; it was a really comfortable round. I was WAY excited when I got a legit par on #10. I don't do the beer drinking thing on the course, so I can't blame my sucky golf on beer drinking. Plus, it's so blazing hot, who needs another reason to be dehydrated.

 

I cleared it. Oh yeah!

 

I had planned on running on Friday morning. We took off at 6am for a 6 mile run through one of my favorite parks. It was a great run with good company. We were done before the sun was up, and there was not a dry thread on me. It was still pretty hot at 7am, but I did 6 miles in under an hour. That doesn't suck. (Not sure why I keep mentioning it was hot; its Houston in the summer. It's basically the surface of the sun)

 

Favorite running park

Friday night the brother and I wanted to go C&W dancing. Who can pass that up?? Not me! Dancing is one of my favorite things to do. So off we went to shake a leg with all the other folks. I needed to be home early (if you call midnight early) to be up and run the bridge. On Friday after the 6 mile run, my friend said "why don't we run the bridge tomorrow." Since the kids were gone, and I had never done it, I said SURE! Its quite possible I'm an idiot.

 

The bridge is a beast. I'm pretty sure only the insane wake up and say, "hey, why don't we go run the bridge a few times." And now, I'm officially one of them.

 

By 7am Saturday morning we were at the water front stretching for the bridge run with a lot of other crazy people. (there's actually a lot of bridge running crazy people) You have seen my weekend. By this time, I had NO CLUE if my legs were going to hold up. Running the bridge twice actually meant we had to go over it 4 times and run a total of 4 miles! The fourth time I was sucking wind. My legs might as well have been jello. But I finished, and at a slightly faster pace than my 6 mile run the day before. Go me!  

This is the Bridge of Insanity

I made it home by 11am and pretty much slept the rest of the day. Sunday, I had one yoga class and tried to get stuff done around the house. It needed to be a low key day. I told mom that I needed to go back to work to get some rest. Her response.... "well that's when you know you're old!" Are you kidding me!?

I regurgitated my crazy weekend to a co-worker.  Her response was " man, you're hard core." Pretty sure I'm more of an idiot than hard core.  Whatever she wants to think is fine with me.

When you have 4 days, and you're not sure what to do... cram it full of crazy, off the wall fitness stuff. It was actually really fun!

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