ADVENTURE OF THE DAY:

Yesterday Tevia and I found it pertinent to head to Retiro Park (think Central Park spain style) to go running. We started off with a nice jog and after about 20 minutes we ended up at the little work out park/ jungle gym area for people to do sit ups and push ups and such. There were about 30 guys there... and me and Tevia. All of these guys were obviously work out animals and we looked kind of silly trying to do crunches while they were literally doing pull-ups with one arm. Then comes along this dark African man with the body of a god, think Olympic runner status, probably has been in the Olympics kind of guy. He sees us laughing and then starts talking to us in very broken English and tells us that he will teach us how to do everything. Tevia and I once again amazed by our ability to meet the most random people went along with it and it turns out this guy is from Togo and was brought here to Spain to run for a regional team. He works out 4 hours a day, every day, and can run the hundred meter dash in 11 seconds. Beast. Anyways, for literally an hour we went around to all the different machines and he told us the best ways to do everything and then like spotted us as we did each exercise and counted for us and basically was like our trainer. Everyone else in the park was staring at us and one Spanish guy came up to us and was like Jeez you guys are so lucky to have a trainer like him!! Hahahahaha. So hilarious. He was probably the most fit person I have ever met. Then finally when Tevia and I could do no more we decided to say our goodbyes and he asked us if we would come back tomorrow. We told him that we would probably come on Friday and then he was like “Okay great! See you tomorrow!”. Tevia and I ran off laughing to ourselves and this morning I couldn’t even sit up out of bed. I literally am so sore that it was painful to eat today. Ohhh Spain haha......