Sunday "16km" LSD 8:30am Running Room

18.45 km
1:50 hours
5:58 min/km
1275 cals

Well - it was great to be with some of the kids from run club. Somehow we were running with a 2:15 group.... WAY TOO SLOW.. dude.. at one point I actually stopped running and walked the same pace... just to see if we were really going that slow. Anywho.. what am I training for? Who cares? So we chilled and ran through the park past Lagoon over the bridge and out by the pool. We ran left along the C wall and over the Burrard street bridge, through Kits and up to Jherico and back. On the way back we just ran down Pacific to Beach to Chilco and back to the running room. I booted it from the bridge back with no more stops and no more going slow. I caught up to the group that was before us.. hahaa.. and passed them! I guess the theory about saving your energy and booting at the end is so true. It works!

Anywho.. sore now... and hungry. I think toes are canceled due to a lame boyfriend... What a loser Vince is!!!

K... bye!! I am going to walk to Opus and get my notebook for Bali!!! (and make my calendar.. and put all the stuff I need it in it.. yay.. maybe I will get some stickers too.. hmmm... )

Saturday 1:05 Ballet - Nicola

Holy cow - I forgot how hard ballet was. I am going to be hurting tomorrow. I wanted that class to end so bad. I was so sweaty and smelly I am sure.. cause I just did the quick rinse shower after yoga this morning.. thinking.. I am just going to get sweaty anyways. Dude... shoulda came home and had a nice show show!

I didn't do everything on releve because my calves were seizing up. Ummm... I just kept being embarrassed about how sweaty I was. I think going to hot yoga got my engine started so I sweat easier. I mean... I was sweaty by the second exercise. Oh well, I am not going to dwell on it. I will never be that kid that can be dry at the end of ... BARRE! (unless of course I don't try at all??)

I am going to go to ballet again on Tuesday night. It should go a lot better.

Saturday 8am Hot Yoges - Christine... that was hard!

Hot, tired, yucky tummy, left ear plugged with sweat, can't hear what you are saying, dizzy.... it was a class full of negative thoughts. I couldn't make myself shut up.. it was grueling today but I am done that.. and as soon as my face returns to a nice human colour... I will be happy.

After yoges I went into the shower at yoga and stood under the cold water. I have Gatorade now and I am pretty stoked on that. There is a happy thought.

I kept thinking if you do the next one I will let you sit down and take a rest.. but then I would end up doing the next one... tricking myself into it. I am so sneaky!

It didn't work all the time though. I was really dizzy at my second triangle so I laid down for the second set and caught my breath. The back extentions I skipped most of and just moved my head from side to side because they pressed on my tummy. I did the rest of the class slowly and poorly. I was strong until triangle though. So, that means I had a half good class. There, another positive thought!

I have to tell Christine that I can't hear her. She is so soft and quiet which is fine if she is standing right next to me.. but I got to watch my neighbours to see when to do things if she is not near me.

DONE!

NEXT... ballet!!

Friday 6am Hot Yoges - Theresa - last class!

Wow! It is hard to believe that the last time I was at yoga was last Friday. I had a busy weekend camping then a night out and now.. I am back! It feels good to be back.

Today is Theresa's last class. Supposedly she is moving to Toronto because her husband is the director of medicine... or something. That is what Danielle told me. It was her last class and one of the best classes I have ever had with her. (except for the one where.. she put smelly stuff on my and massaged my head.. that was pretty awesome.. I think that was meditation.. and I never went back... ) Anywho, she had a lot of energy - unlike her sleepy, slow classes - which I don't mind Friday mornings after a long week... but this has been a short week and it felt good for her to make us try so hard today. I guess you should treat every class like it is your last class???

I was feeling a little nauseas this morning during warrior poses and the back bend on your knees... camel? I totally don't remember any names lately.. (truthfully - I cheated and used the internet to look them up and I am just too lazy to do that right now.. or busy... )

Oh ya.. I woke up and my right knee hurts!! WHAT? What did I do when I was sleeping.... or tossing and turning rather.. dreaming I had three turtles that ate cheese and the cheese turned into a tongue that licked a hot frying pan and sizzled!!and it was the turtle tongue. What was I going to do with these turtles when I went away to Bali? Why did I get turtles right before I left?

Friday 6am Hot Yoges - Angela

Whoa.. I woke up at 5:17 with a messed up dream. I won't get into it.. but I thought.. better to stay away then drift back into that one!! I was so hungry this morning.. cause I ate the rest of my pizza after boot camp.. right before I went to sleep. I will get healthy next week?? (Food healthier)

I felt fat today! hahaha!! (umm... pizza? Big cookie?)

She did the arms cross legs crossed sitting one... I don't have time to look it up... separately.. arms only ... legs only... kinda different. She did something else different... what was it??? argh... it will come to me.. anyways .. it nice to see she is still inspired from the little yoga thing she went to. I like that.. I am proud of her for that.

K.. go sign in!! FRIDAY!!!

Thursday 8pm Booty Camp - Maren

Booty Camp Thursday! I have two more classes left. (Three is I make up the one I missed when I had my run club dinner)

This is what we did today:

Instead of running around the loop we did high knees walking, lunges, jogging, grapevines both sides, side stepping.... then when we got to the stairs we did slow up up down down and fast.. about four times each leg.

Then we were in pairs and one person ran there and back equals 1 - ten times while the other person held the plank.. then switch... and we did this all the way down to 1.

Individually we did another count down 10-1 with push-ups, jump lunges, tricep push-ups, and jump squats.

In pairs again we did with the band on the fence - two arms straight - center side center hold while the other person had a thera band around her ankles and side step hover - oww... bum!! We did one minute each station about 2 times

In pairs we balanced on one leg, squat, throw the medicine ball (apple) - repeat other leg... when she said.. I guess we did about 2 minutes each leg.


Finally we did some trapezius pull downs.. we held the thera  band above our head, straight arms, long neck, ribs in - pull down opening to the sides chest level. We did ten then we pulsed.


Then we did bicep curls with the band in then out to the side... then we repeated these last two exercises.


We stretched - wind releasing - the four - hams - rock up - second head down... and done!

Thursday 5 Speed

3.43 km
18:42 mins
5:27 min/km
237 cals

My computer is doing something weird. Let's hope that stops. I don't want to talk about it and make it happen again. Anywho, I should have warmed up longer and cooled down longer - went for an extra km there and back. I will do that next time I do speed training. I found a good straight spot in between David Lamb park and the one where I do Booty Camp. It is long and straight. I felt like a total dork though - racing as fast as I could then jogging back. Oh well. It felt good. I ran myself right out breath and then jogged back and repeated this five times. The fifth time I was blasted!! I stopped before the end. It is weird though, on my runpod - it doesn't show that I ran that fast.. I guess the slow jogs evened it out. I would like to see it on the graph though and even though I set it to the most points I still didn't see any fours... I know I was going four.. twenty maybe.. ?? hahaha!!

Anywho - besides feeling like a dork and wishing I would have run a little longer.. it was pleasant and sunny. I have officially booted my pink nikes out to just boot camp shoes..

Hey.. let's see if my AfterRun worked!!! It did!! hahahaa!! Here it is.. I thought I was holding it so still.. but I was walking.. so .. it is a bumpy ride.. I hope you like it! I love the AfterRun!