Two-a-days

My brother was a football player growing up. From the age of eight through his second year of college I remember him doing his two-a-day workouts. It was a lot of work, and he always lost about 10 pounds on those two weeks of two-a-days.

Baby brother is on the right. Isn't he adorable?

I never really played competitive sports. I played softball growing up, but (despite what my mother claims) I was never competitive. The closest thing I had to a two-a-day practice was cheer camp.

Seriously. Cheer camp kicked my ass. It was five days of practice from 7 to 7, and it was honestly grueling.

Two-a-day exercises are not something I advocate on a regular basis. Every once in a while, I think it's totally fine and can actually be a good kickstart to a new training plan. While I'm training for the Turkey Trot, I will be throwing in the occasional two-a-day.

Like today. At lunch today, I finally committed to running a baseline 5k.

I am happy to report that I ran 3.1 miles in 35:21. I was rocking a killer calf cramp that made me stop a couple of times to stretch it out. I'm feeling very confident that I can run a sub-30 on November 28.

Tonight I also completed day 29 of the 30-day challenge, which was a legs and ass day. So yay for me being completely wrecked tomorrow between 45 minutes of legs and a run today.

I started tracking calories on MFP today too. I was 1200 calories short before dinner. I managed to make up most of those by eating a whole avocado, but it was pretty telling of how under I've probably been for the last couple of months of not tracking. I will be paying more attention to that while on NROL.

Overall, it was an excellent Monday, and an awesome two-a-day. I'm so ready for NROL on Wednesday.

Throwback picture of me and the brother for good measure.