March Madness!

I've opted in to a 30-day challenge by a friend of mine.  Each day, we do a set of burpees, squats, tricep dips and jumping jacks.  It's a pretty simple, hard-to-excuse challenge.  Yesterday, I did 5 reps and today I did 6.  Seven reps tomorrow!  Haha.  It's silly, but it actually does make one a bit sore.

That said, I did about 20 jumping jacks and 10 each of squats / tricep dips both days... but I swear to you -- I'm not doing more than the prescribed number of burpees.  Because burpees are the devil.

More rocks!

Tackled a few 5.10a walls today. Four, actually. Pretty good workout. Also, today is the first day of my friend's 30-day challenge, so I did a set of burpees, squats, jumping jacks and tricep dips. Totally manageable.

My foot has been hurting for no good reason. I don't like it. Not one bit.

Swim at Hamilton Rec

I'm very impressed by this pool!  What a great facility.  Very glad I got back in the water today.

My friend and I did a few drills and some laps.  I finished with a short ladder:

Rock Climbing!

Rock climbing with my roommate, a close childhood friend and our favorite bouldering buddy!  Great day to warm up a Saturday morning.  I took the opportunity to challenge myself on a few 5.10B routes - something I haven't been doing because of the medication I'm on.  That said... my buddy from the east coast killed it on a few 5.11Cs... so...

A morning run

Woke up this morning and put on my running gear.  Feeling pretty good these days, though I'm not exercising as frequently as I probably should.  Hoping to go to the pool with a friend sometime next week.  Today, I set out with the goal of running 4 miles.  I ended up running for 40 minutes, somewhere between 3 1/2 and 4 miles (depending on which device you look at).

I need to book my travel / accommodations for my training camp at the end of March.  I'm looking forward to it.  I think it will be good for me to get into the mindset again.  I've still only registered for one race this year (NYC Tri), so I need to decide what I'm going to do other than that.

House of Cards, aerobic...

So, all that yoga yesterday made my arms and pecs really sore.  Good sore, but still pretty stiff.  Did a lot of walking today, which was positive.  However, I ended up availing myself of not one, but TWO slices of toast from The Mill today (tsk tsk tsk).  On the bike I go!  Forty-five minutes of aerobic cycling should burn off some of those carbs.  I'm down 15 lbs, which makes me exceedingly happy.  Though, now I'm in that awkward limbo-land where none of my clothes quite fit...  There are worse things.

Oh, also -- today's workout is brought to you buy House of Cards 2,3.  Zoom zoom.

Yoga in the goddess temple

This weekend was so crazy / awesome.  Stayed at an Egyptian goddess themed lodge with my boyfriend and about 20 other people -- all great -- and got some serious downtime, complete with pool playing and puzzle production.  Today, I felt really tense and sore.  I'm still not sure what caused it, but I took the liberty of doing some yoga to stretch out.  I am very glad that I did.  Feeling much more limber and oxygenated. 

Great weekend.  So happy.  :)