BACK HOME

We had a wonderful time in Belgium. The weather was perfect except for the day we went to Gent, but that didn't stop us from having a great time. Amy and I even managed to get in 5 walks at her park.
Today I was up early so decided to take advantage of the cooler morning temperature and go for a run walk. My Garmin was not working so had to wing it with the mileage. I did 45 minutes and was very warm when I reached home. It has been really hot here and we are suppose to reach 100 this weekend.
Tomorrow is boot camp. I know it will be tough getting back after almost 2 weeks off, but gotta do it.

DOG TIRED

Did you ever notice when you have a really good workout that later you are just tired, that's me today. I think I would have skipped boot camp but I'm leaving Wednesday to visit my daughter

and her family so I needed to get the work out in. There were 3 of us and we had to do the warm up that took 30 minutes. Should a warm up really take that long ? I will say my jump roping has improved, there are less times that I trip on the rope.

We've had more big storms today so I did laundry and some packing. Hope the weather is good on Wednesday. Now I'm going to park myself on the couch and watch Oprah.

TREAT MYSELF

Yesterday I missed boot camp because I had to wait for a new refrigerator to be delivered. While I was waiting I did some major cleaning. You know, moving furniture, dusting, scrubbing floors and on and on. It was like a boot camp because by the time I was finished I had sure worked up a sweat.
This morning I had a runners yoga class. I love this class! I was the only one and we used the foam rollers. Oh boy do those hurt. I felt so good when I left that I decided to go get a manicure and pedicure to treat myself. I had a coupon good for $ 30.00 for the mani and pedi. Now that's a deal. It's so hard to pick a color when there are so many to choose from but I selected a coppery red and am pleased with the results.

TOO POOPED TO POP

So this morning at boot camp we had to do our warm up. If you remember the warm up is :
50 jump ropes
25 squats with kettle ball
20 push ups
1 minute sprints
Today we repeated 3 times

When she told us what we would be doing for boot camp I gasped! " But we've already done some of that " I blurted out.
It was the deck of cards and the suits were assigned as follows:
Hearts jump rope
Spades push ups
Diamonds kettle ball squats
Clubs reverse lunges
Aces burpies or 1 minute on treadmill at 12% incline
Kings were 21 reps
Queens 18 reps
Jacks 15 reps

So it comes out to 109 reps for each suit. That doesn't include what we did for warm up.
Am I tired tonight, you're damn right I am.

REWARD AT THE END

Remember when you were a kid and you'd walk up the slide instead of sliding down ?

That's what today's treadmill class felt like. We had to put our tread mill at 12% incline, walk for 3 minutes and then drop to 9% incline and walk for 2 minutes. We did this for 35 minutes. My legs were feeling it, the sweat was dripping and the time seemed to be ticking away slowly. The reward at the end of this was a 25 minute yoga class. Omm !

LUCKY, NOT SO LUCKY

Saturday was such a beautiful day for a run. I went out on the trails and noticed that the wild flowers have really started to bloom. I was worried that they might not make it this year because they had plowed all the fields. Not only were the floweres out but I also spotted a bluebird and a gold finch. It was just my lucky day to be out.

Now boot camp I am not so lucky at! The month of May she is having us do a warm up that to me is like a mini boot camp or as I have voiced a " boot camp in a boot camp" . Here is what we do to warm up.

Repeat 5 times
50 jump ropes
25 squat press with kettle ball swing
20 push up
1 minute sprint on the treadmill

WARRIOR RACE

Good luck to Katy, Trisha and Tonya in their warrior race today. I hope they have great weather.