Summer Of Seals

A couple of friends asked me to do a little

competition with them over the summer.

I've been wanting to get in better shape, so

I agreed with out asking any questions.

I assumed it was just a little competition

with just our group of friends.

I assumed wrong.  Ha!

The little competition was the

Summer Of Seals challenge.

*Based off Navy Seals training, in case you were thinking...

Or this.....

Out of our group of friends, there were

 2 girls teams of 5 and 

2 boys teams of 5.

We had 12 weeks to do four

 30 min workouts per week.

And to end the 12 weeks..a big competition...

in which I had to wear a bathing suit and

swim in front of people. Lots of people.

Something that I have not done since I was

10, during summer rec swim lessons..

I was a little freaked out, to say the least!

I even contemplated quitting a week before 

the big competition.  But I did it!  I had

lots of help and encouragement 

from my great friends!

-Competition day-

500 meter swim 

max pushups in 2 min.

max situps in 2 min.

max pullups in 2 min. 

1.5 mile run

Yep. All that. Together. One after another.

Whew!!

Team "Jiggles and Giggles"

And of course I'm the only one making a "tough" face! Haha

Me and Sabrina with our matching watches to time our laps

I really exceeded all my goals and 

beat almost all of my best times!

I really impressed myself by shaving 3min off my 

best practice swim time!

That is a Lot in swim time! 

I was dead tired after and still sore 3 days later.

I can't say it was fun, but I did feel pretty 

accomplished having done it.

So I will definitely do it again.