A Red Rocks Workout

Today was quite active, which was nice because I was in a funk last week and didn't feel much like getting off the couch.  So this morning I got my groggy butt out of bed and managed to make it to aquatics.  My effort began slow in the pool, but as we got moving a little more I felt my energy creep back up.  By the end, Dave, the instructor decided to try some new tricks on us young ones in the class.  He put a stool in the pool that we had to step up on with each leg for 30 seconds and then we would throw us an eight pound medicine ball and we had to throw it back up at him.  It was tough!  But such a good end to the workout.  I felt great.

Then Joe and I decided to head up to Red Rocks for the afternoon to walk the stairs.  Now if you have never been to Red Rocks, let me show you a picture of the 'stairs'.

They are crazy!  You can see the bench rows in the picture and they are each two steps high.  So we parked at the top of the amphitheater and started our workout.  Joe was crazy and sprinted up the benches from bottom to top!  I walked down to the bottom and then would walk up 6 steps (3 bench rows) and would walk all the way across the bench row, walk up six more steps and back across the bench row.  I zig zagged all the up to the top in about 35 minutes.  It was great!  Because I only walked up 6 steps at a time, I didn't get out of breath, but I remained in THR the whole time.  It was a beautiful day and a beautiful setting.  I'm looking forward to doing it again!

Also, the best part of working out there is watching the other people work out.  They are so inspiring!  There are people who can sprint up the benches (like Joe), others sprint up and down the stairs, while others leap over the planters that are practically taller than me.  It's crazy what people can do!  I will never get as crazy as them, but it inspires me to go back and do my own workout.