Tardy for the Party

I took this photo for posterity - my first official training session. The date, time and temp are all here - and, incidentally, the temperature dropped to 10 by the time I got to Urban Active. In June or July, I'll probably look back at this picture and laugh. 

Truth be told, waking up at 5:00 sucked. I had everything laid out and ready to go, but I still ended up making it to the gym by the skin of my teeth. What should have been a five-minute drive doubled to ten as I hit every red light between here and Bellevue. Even though I pulled some illegal maneuvers, I still didn't make it in early. I walked into UA at 5:30 on the dot. So, no time to warm up, only time to throw my stuff in a locker and get started. 

Squats, lateral raises, ab work, leg extensions, push-ups...30 minutes flew by, with very little down time between sets. At one point, I looked at the clock and commented that the time was flying by; I only had 10 minutes left. Doug retorted, "Yeah, we started kinda late, too." Youch. 

So, after wrapping up, Doug and I rescheduled Friday's session for Saturday and I hopped on the elliptical for about 15 minutes. By 6:30, I was completely finished working out for the day. 

Skip to Thursday morning - Mark and I ran outside in 20-something degrees. Him: ready to go 6 or 7. Me: stopping every five minutes to stretch my calves. 24 hours after my first real workout, I find that all that balancing on the bosu ball is shredding my calves. It was good to get back outside with my running pal, though. Mark was merciful enough to keep the pace manageable for me and I cut out after about 3 miles.

Friday morning=sleeping in until about 6:30, which was nice.

This morning=up at 7:00 to make sure I had time to get dressed, eat something and print my food journal for my 8:30 session. Even with Dan in tow, I managed to get to UA at about 8:15, enough time to throw stuff in a locker and warm up for about 10 minutes. I also gave Doug my food journal from the past week. He said he'd get back to me on that after taking a closer look at it. After glancing at it, he immediately noticed the buffalo wings and spinach dip from Wednesday night and mucho Mexican for lunch yesterday. With more time, he'll surely see my spinach salad lunches and healthy snacks. Bring me the feedback - bring it.

This morning's session was similar to Wednesday's session - more balancing, squats, arms, plank, etc. Followed by 20 minutes on the elliptical. It would have been nice to get in the sauna for a while, but Dan wanted to get back home to buy Opening Day tickets.

Tomorrow, we're running with the group in Blue Ash. 7:00 a.m. - another early morning. The lows are going to be in the teens, which means double the socks, double the shirts, double the gloves, hat, headband. Guess I should do some laundry tonight. More on that tomorrow.