Did We Work Out on Thanksgiving Day?

Why, yes! Yes we did.

What better day to work out when you know you're going to be gorging yourself that afternoon?

For the past several years Zach and I have held our own Thanksgiving 5Ks. We live near Dallas, which has a huge Turkey Trot run on Thanksgiving morning, but between fighting the crowds and our own two kids, we choose to have our own "Un-Turkey Trot" on the school's track. That way we can get our run in, the kids can ride their bikes and run around on the infield, and we can make it home in time to get cooking.

This year we invited our Wednesday Workout crew to walk or run with us that morning. Maybe that's what jinxed our weather? Thursday morning we woke up to a temperature of 68 degrees. By 8:30 (our designated meeting time) it was 48 degrees and raining. Yuck! I don't do running in the rain, and neither do the kids.

But we still wanted to exercise, so we drove up to school. We stopped by the track, and low and behold someone took us up on our offer! Zach's administrative assistant and two other people she invited were bravely doing laps on the track in the cold weather.

So we invited them to come up to the gym with us, where we planned on doing some sprinting. They gratefully accepted! Zach and I spent about 30 minutes doing some high knee running, suicide drills, and running stairs. The kids spent the time running around the gym and playing with balls. It was great to do a different kind of workout that pushes your legs, and it made me feel not quite so bad when I got up for a second round of food that night at Thanksgiving dinner.