ROAD TRIP DAY 2

Left Little Rock at 9 and headed for Tennessee. Most of the trip the traffic was light but there were some spots with construction and then you come to a crawl. We were at Knoxville around 7 Eastern time and my husband said he felt good enough to go on. So this morning I woke up in Bristol,TN which shares a main street with Bristol,VA. That's kind of cool.

I was up at 6 and didn't feel like going to the exercise room but it beat sitting in my room while someone is sleeping. I headed down and was a bit disappointed after the nice exercise room I had yesterday. There was a treadmill, stair climber and bike. There was this girl on the bike who said she couldn't get the treadmill to work. Oh great, I thought. I climbed on and got it going, did 1.50 miles. You know how I hate the treadmill.

Today we're hoping to make 500 miles. We''ll see, we're in the East and traffic is heavier.

ROAD TRIP

Yesterday we headed out for our trip to Maine around 3 in the afternoon. Our goal was to get to North Little Rock for the night. Happy to say we made it.

This morning I was up around 4 and trust me there is nothing to do in a Hampton Inn at that hour of the morning. I had to wait until six before I could use the exercise room.

I was pleasantly surprised when I got down to workout how much nice equipment they had for such a small space. There was this Total Body Workout machine that had illustrated instructions for using it. There were also medicine balls and a Swiss ball along with treadmill, elliptical and bike. Perfect!

I did a mile running on the treadmill and then switched to the machine. Worked biceps, chest, back, delts. I figured I was getting a good workout, maybe not quite as hard as at boot camp but I was sweating.

TABATA

Next week I'll be making blueberry muffins for breakfast and enjoying them out on the porch.

I finally got it straight what they do at boot camp, it's TABATA! Today Heidi had us doing this for part of our workout. I asked her how you spelled it and then came home and looked it up. Here's what it is.

A Tabata workout (also called a Tabata sequence) is an interval training cycle of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated without pause 8 times for a total of four minutes

It felt good to get a workout in especially since I will be in a car four 4 days.

NEXT WEEK

This time next week I'll be enjoying some delicious Maine lobster pulled out of the bay by Henry the lobster man.
Today I felt like a lobster, my run was very humid and hot even though I went out early.

I stayed on the trails and made sure I stopped at the water fountains and sipped the warm water. I managed 5.20 miles.

GOT THE WORD

This week my husband saw the Dr. and we were given the okay to travel, so later this week we will be heading for Maine and hopefully cooler weather.
This morning I needed to get out on the trails and get some miles in. It was early but much cooler than when the sun is up. We are expected to reach 105 today! I took the usual trail but added another street to give me 5.29 miles.
There are about 100 days until the Women's Half Marathon in St. Pete, Fla and I need to start thinking about a training plan. I'd like to get under 3 hours.
Christy and I did Wed. and Fridays boot camp. Wednesday was cardio and she had us doing 40 sec on 20 secs off for 4 minutes. It doesn't sound bad but it is.
Friday was pull exercises, my favorite was working on pull ups. I can do 2 but would like to be able to do ten.We'll see.

MY RUN

No breeze

Sore knees

Sweat dripping

Glasses slipping

Hot feet

I'm beat

Miles run

4.70 done

KEEPING UP

I convinced Christy that she should go to boot camp with me this morning. At first she was having none of it but then a talk with Jenny changed her mind.

Shayla was back and she put us through a routine similar to Friday's , here it is:

15 Reps x 5
Dumbbell squats with shoulder press
push ups
roll ups

15 Reps x 3
leg press
bench dips with legs on stability ball
dumbbell reverse lunge
incline dumbbell press
leg extensions


Christy did great in keeping up with the ladies and liked it so much she is going to go on Wednesday!