Actually, we've been back coming up four weeks now. We got into Dallas on the late afternoon of Monday, January 2nd, after a 15-hour flight from Sydney and we rented a car to drive back to Shreveport where we got to our house around 7 pm. Not bad...if we'd flown back to Shreveport we would have gotten into town about the same time (because it'd be a later flight) and would have cost about three times as much. The drive back allowed us to unwind a bit plus get used to driving on the right side of the road!
This will be brief but I wanted to record these numbers:
1. 66 miles. That's how many total miles I ran while I was in Perth, Australia. I ran every other day for distances ranging from 3 miles (often) to 6 miles (twice). I only missed one day because I was sick so I stayed fairly faithful to the schedule. Didn't run at all during the total four days we were in Sydney.
2. 946. That's the total number of push-ups I did while I was on this trip. We were gone for 43 days and I made a decision that, to help stay in shape, I would do one pushup the first day, two pushups the second day, three the third, and so on to when I got to Day 43 I would be at forty-three pushups for that day. By the time I got to 20 I realized that there was no way I'd do that many...plus more...straight through, so I divided it up to sets. For instance when I was at Day 25 I would do two sets of thirteen and twelve with about a minute's rest in between. On Day 26 it would be thirteen and thirteen, and so on until by Day 43 I was doing three sets of 15, 14, and 14. Since I've been back I've made it a point to continue the exercise by maintaining 20 pushups a day. So far so good. I can see a bit of difference in my shoulders.
Now if I can just work on that stomach!
