The Friendly Challenge

A friend of mine posted in a mommy group posted a challenge for August saying simply, "whatever movement, whatever goal, do it and let's help keep each other accountable", then another friend in the same group said, "BURPEES!  I'll do burpees."  Now this friend happens to be Kris from In the Kitchen with Audrey whom I ran my half marathon with last year and we happen to have a friendly competitiveness about these kinds of things.  So...while cursing under my breath I said, "Fine...I'll do burpees too".  So everyday in August we agreed to do 20 burpees....or at least 20 for the first week and  25 for the second week.  I'm not sure of the plan after that.

Now might be a good time to say that I hate burpees.  Loath burpees might be a better description, but I am competitive and I honestly probably need to do some burpees.  As I've said before I have the Flat Rock 25k coming up and while it's a trail run there is a fair bit of hands and feet crawling up giant rocks to do on that trail so burpees are probably a good choice for some crosstraining.  Also, since I started running in the mornings again I haven't been doing my strength training after my runs (since the getting the kids moving day starts pretty much as soon as I get back home).  Based on my track record of injuries I'm certain that any amount of strength training is a good idea, so....burpees (Damn you Kris ;)).