July 30

Josh has football practice 5 days a week for 2-3 hours, so he is getting plenty of exercise. The next 2 weeks are football camp where he'll have 2 practices a day. good grief. Besides that he looses 10 pounds in 2 weeks, it's a logistical nightmare. Most of his mates live right there near the school so it's easy for them to take the 4 hour break between practices. Curtis will be gone all next week so that leaves it to me to do the shuttling. Last year he took the train a lot. Got him passes. It's 3 blocks to the station from the field, a 10 minute train ride, then 2 miles from the station to home. After already working out 6 hours a day, it seems cruel.

Wednesday Curtis flew to LA at 2:00 and I had meetings in the late afternoon, so Josh kindly went to football practice in the morning. Griff went with me at 8:30 to take Josh, then we worked out at Prime Time for an hour. He did the tread mill with me for half hour, I was so impressed, he did it steady, put the incline up to 10, sweat pouring down his face. Then he rode the recumbent stationary bike for the other half hour while I completed my hour.

I had worked up to jogging 5 miles this spring. Put "jogging" in quotes because I do the motion of jogging, but it's very slow, more like trotting. I like the feel of the muscles being used in that motion better than walking...I guess I'm still addicted from the 20+ years ago when i ran the marathon. Summer schedule got me off habit so now I'm working my time back up. This week I've been jogging about 1/2 hour and walking the other. I am pleased at how good it feels, and really pleased that there is no pain. When I started jogging back in November, I had a lot of lower back pain and feet pain. Both are gone now. "feeling strong now."

Breakfast:

grilled turkey and cheese sandwiches with banana

a trick I learned from Steve...rather than putting butter or mayo on the inside of a sandwich, even light butter on the outside crunchy grilled tastes really good, treat-like

Lunch

smoothy: banana, mango, little bit of strawberry, gob of leftover watermelon, tad bit of powedered milk.....refreshing!

bean burritos with sliced tomato and onions and mozzarella

Dinner

they were on their own, Trader Joes frozen meals; I had meetings.

After lunch the boys decided they would like their "ice cream time" to be after lunch instead of after dinner, which I concurred with them that it was indeed a better time. I made us all cones--which is considerably less ice cream than a bowl.