I’m happy to say that I definitely got my 10,000 steps in today.

It wasn’t accomplished without a bit of random good luck. The track / basketball room was locked again today, and obviously this is going to be a reoccurring problem with those monkeys. On the bright side, I managed to bump into someone who was just getting off of their shift and the guy turned out to be a helpful, kindly gent.

He told me that he didn’t know why the door was locked and he not only opened the doors for me at each end, but he turned the lights on for me too. The latter is worth mentioning because apparently you have to flip some circuit-breaker-like switches to turn them on and I doubt that I would have gone looking there for the on switch.

Thanks to this kindly gent I was able to get my exercise of 10,000 steps today. I combined jogging and walking around the track for a total of 30 laps around the track. If my information is correct then that should be roughly equal to 5 miles, which is roughly equal to 10,000 steps.

After the 30 laps were complete I took the time to do some stretches because I’m still trying to become limber enough to do the splits (especially since I’m practicing karate now). I also done about 20 or 30 beginner push ups… I don’t remember exactly how many were done because they were an impromptu addition before leaving.

Of course, I walked to the activity center and walked back home, so that should definitely have picked up any slack in the 10,000 steps. that’s 500+ extra calories gone… huzzah!

All in all I got bloody well soaked in sweat and it was a pretty good day, as far as both fitness and health are concerned.

Oh! and of course I hit up the whey protein once I got home. I’m not sure if it makes any since to take that stuff after a simple cardio work out so I may not do that next time… that’s undecided for now.

Later folks!
~Steph

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