Saturday! The weekend is here!
So this weekend my wife was going to be doing some training for her big walk coming up. Her and her friend were going to get some distance in. I figured “GREAT, I can go do some target shooting”. So I get up at 6am and realize I am going back to sleep for a while. I snooze until almost 8am when I finally get up. I did not want to get up then but I saw how late it was and go up. My wonderful wife decided we needed to go hiking in stead of me going to the gym for my morning workout. It was supposed to rain a lot today. What the heck, my wife’s plans fell through due to weather so I was OK with it. We found a section of the Potomac river trail that we have never been on. This is so amazing that we can still find local places that we have visisted many, many times but have not seen it all. Since I gave up the gym I wanted to do more than just hike. We jogged some also. Our total distance for the day was 4.69 miles. It took us 1:35 minutes to do it. I figure we must have jogged between 1.25 to 2.25 miles. Some of it was tough going up hills. I was in the zone! I felt great! I kicked my wife’s butt jogging today! (she beat me on Friday and out walked me today so I was happy to be the quick one jogging). The best part of the hike was seeing the flowers from last week or the week before in full bloom. We timed it perfectly.
We got so lucky, It just started to rain as we got to the truck. Had we been out there 5 minutes longer we would have been quite wet. We went home had some lunch and then went our separate ways to take care of business. My business was putting holes in paper targets (wait for it…wait for it..) and business was good! I brought one of my own and rent a Glock 26 as well. The one I brought has a 2.7 inch barrel and is not a target pistol rather it is for up close and personal self defense. I shot it well enough at 7 yards, but it is meant for closer range than that. I tried out 3 different ammo brands to see what works well since there are Internet rumors saying this brand pistol can be picky with ammo. I had no problems with any of the ammo feeding. Two were hollow points and one was pow’r ball. The pow’r ball is a premium priced self defense round. 20 rounds were as expensive as 50 for the other 2 brands. I had a failure to fire with the premium stuff on the first round. Well I never need to buy that stuff again! Once I was done with mine I switched to the Glock to finish out the day. Unbelievable! my first 5 shots were all bulls-eye!I should have stopped there with the target and brought it home, that looked really cool. But I did have 45 more bullets to shoot so I did and I did not keep all the others in the bulls-eye. All the shots were point scores so I felt good about that. In fact my groupings were tighter with the rented gun (3.5 inch barrel) than with my own pistol (2.7 inch barrel). Size makes a difference.
With the fun done it was time to hit the gym and lift some weights. I did bench press, cable flies and dumbbell dead lifts. I felt good about what I did but I did not feel good. My right knee was really bothering me. It felt like it wanted to give out. I think the jogging today was OK but at some point I must have stressed the muscles/tendons/ligaments and stuff tightened up from resting at home on the couch before going to the gym. Tomorrow I will know if it is a sprain of something or just some general soreness.
