Met up with Kristin and we got going. Headed out and about a mile into it, I realized we were going pretty fast. As we came back towards her house, I said I was done at 4 miles today as I had tennis tonight. During our cool down I realized it had been fast--34:16 for 4 miles = 8:33 pace! Funny thing is that the first 2 miles were 8:39, whereas the 2nd 2 miles (when I knew we were going fast) was 8:27 pace.

Then played tennis tonight and had a good workout with that as well--played really well actually.

We had a bye for softball, but we did a practice. Did that, then went to tennis. It was warm and we played three sets so it was a good little workout.

Well, I kind of cheated today on my "20 minutes of exercise rule". Knee's still tender so I was going to get up and do an Ab workout today. As I got up from bed, I realized how sore my abs and obliques still were from Monday night....nope, another ab workout wouldn't be a good idea.

I have both softball and tennis again tonight. At softball, I had one good hit that had me get most of the way around the bases, and two great fly catches that had me running a bit, plus some other backup runs. Then at tennis we had lots of deuces and a tie-breaking set. Since it's doubles, it's not alot of running, but some. Plus it's a workout of my arms, legs, and core so it's kind of like a strength and flexibility workout. Unfortunately that's all I did so it wasn't a concentrated workout, so I feel like I cheated a bit. Yet, when I started this challenge, the whole goal came from me thinking that I had no excuse not to do at least 20 minutes of activity a day. Ultimately, it was to get me off my butt and not just sit around when I really have at least 20 minutes every day I could do "something". Therefore I guess being on a softball league and tennis summer league does just that---it's something to get me active in at least a little way.

Talk about a cross-training day! I got up early and did the Level I of the 30-day shred. Then after work I had a softball game. Went straight from that to play tennis. I actually felt great and loved doing all these different physical activities.

Up and going for an early run this morning. Kristin was stuggling today, but we ended up doing alot....5.42 miles at a 9:05 pace.

Then Mary Jo asked me to play tennis at night and got a good workout there also as I played singles for part of the night. Not huge cardio workout, just little sprints, but definitely worked out some muscles differently---serving, side-to-side with the legs, torso, etc.

Geeting back to tennis tonight with Mary Jo and crew. Unfortunately Paula was ill, therefore there was just three of us. We played doubles on singles and just rotated every 8 games who was the single....I did the last 8. Therefore 24 games total with a good harder workout at the end when I was covering the court by myself.

It really is fun playing again, even though I'm really inconsistent and my forehand stunk tonight!

Had my first tennis get-together tonight with Mary Jo and her two playing partners. We played about 1.5 hours of doubles tennis. Nothing too strenuous for me overall, but it was fun to hit the ball around and work on coordination and control with ball. It was fun getting back into playing tennis again.

Mary Jo asked me if I wanted to play tennis with her doubles friends this summer. Sounds like fun, but I haven't played except for a few times with Bill in the last 5 years. Therefore she agreed to go out and hit with me tonight just to see how I did, especially compared to her and her friends. We hit around for about an hour or a little more, nothing too strenuous. Hit lots of forehands, backhands, came to the net a few times, and served a good number of serves. Didn't break much of a sweat, but it was a different type of exercise than I've done in a while.