Shortly after I got out of bed this morning, I went for a quick run over to the West River part of town in my Vibram Five Fingers to get some breakfast with my Aunt and Dad before running back to Cumberland. Then I went out for a relaxing, easy-pace destination run. First, I ran down to the Overturf trailhead and climbed the 200-plus feet to the top of Overturf Butte. From the top, there is a great view of Bend and Pilot Butte (i.e., where I did my interval workout yesterday). Then I ran back down the trail and into town where following my “Bend Historic Sites” map, I jogged around to about half of the sites taking pictures and reading the plaques. Consequently, I learned about such iconic Central Oregon figures as Klondike Kate (legendary business woman of the old west that took care of sick children in her Bend home) and George Palmer Putman (publishing mogul who operated the Bend Bulletin and would later marry Amelia Earhart after leaving Bend). The total distance of morning warm-up and destination runs was 6.2 miles.
During the late afternoon, I went on another run. This one involved running from Cumberland to the Bend Library on Wall Street then over to Hawthorne to have some diner with my Aunt, Uncle, and Dad before heading back to Cumberland. The total distance of this second run was 4.6 miles at an easy pace.
In the evening, I hit the Juniper Park Gym with my Aunt and Uncle to lift some weights. For this non-running workout, I completed 3.0 miles on the stationary bike (this bike was really interactive in that it was like a video game with a flat screen television and you had to actually steer around the turns and the other bikers on the course), 2.0 miles on the hand bike, 200 sit-ups, 25 push-ups, 20 metronomes, 100 (30, 20 lbs) curls, and 50 (50, 40 lbs) reverse curls. | 