Yesterday was the “official” last day of homeschool. We still have a couple of minor things to clean up–Kelly has a little math, they both have a little bit of reading, the reports are finished, but need to be formatted so we can post them on the web, etc. It all works out well because tomorrow the kids switch from evening to morning swim team workouts. Both of them got their ribbons from the time trial swim meet in which they participated Saturday. While the kids were swimming, Lorena and I went into the workout area at the new YMCA. Lorena works very hard on the elliptical machine. Both of us have been going about 40 minutes per day.
Last night, I started lifting weights again. Lorena will start doing some weights, too, as soon as the kids start their morning swim workouts when the gym will not be so crowded. I love to lift weights. At 52, I know I have to start in slower than before, but I really do not mind. The plan is to do five minutes of cardiovascular work to warm up followed by a weight workout followed by another twenty minutes of cardiovascular work. I am a numbers guy and have always written virtually everything down in my workouts for thirty years. There is just not as much satisfaction in writing down the three or four numbers for a cardiovascular workout (time, calories, distance) rather than the tons of numbers you get to write down for a weight workout (weights and repetitions for five sets of three different exercises along with the times and calories burned during the cardiovascular part of the workout).
I really enjoyed going down to work out with Lorena. It would be great to figure out a way to do that every day, but this summer, to make my schedule work, it looks like I will need to get up at 5:00 AM to get into the YMCA when it opens at 5:30. I hate for everyone else to have to suffer those kinds of hours, so I will try to revisit this again in the fall when school starts.
Note: We might be able to take some Chinese art lessons from this person.