LOST COUNT

It is just been great weather here, all the flowers are out and the red bud trees are full of blossom in that beautiful pink color. The temperature is around 58 in the mornings and warming up to the 80's by afternoon.
This morning when I checked my e-mails I saw that Shayla wanted us to meet out side to do hill runs. It was a perfect day for this. We met over by the lake and there is this hill they use. We were running up and walking down and running up backwards and walking down. I lost track of the count but we did a lot. I didn't mind this hill stuff because it was nice not to be running in a parking lot.

HOME BOOT CAMP

Our tree out back has had a limb going over the fence and into the neighbors yard. I'd been telling my husband that we needed to saw it off. Today we did that and added a few extra branches to the pile. You certainly get a good workout!

The saw becomes the weights, just heft it up and give it a start.



With the saw working you can trim branches and also do squats.


Find a nice size branch and it becomes the weight for shoulder presses.

Before boot camp I went out and did 5.34 miles on the trails. It was a beautiful day to run and to trim trees!

ANOTHER SIGN OF SPRING

I was driving Allie to school and then making my way to boot camp,I noticed there were a lot of

signs out for garage sales. I guess this is just another sign that it's Spring.

Since it was so nice out side we did a lot of sprints plus a mile to warm up. Inside it was jump rope, squats, mountain climber and burpies and we finished with crunches, lots of crunches.

Friday is weigh in day and some how I managed to get the 2 pounds off I put on over the weekend so my weight was the same as last week. I'll try harder this week. One thing I wasn't doing was writing down everything, so this is my challenge to try and journal next week.

NO WALK IN THE PARK

These pictures were taken at the Keukenhof in the Netherlands last year. If you ever get the chance to go

do it. The flower displays are spectacular. Our tulips are just starting to open and the daffodils are almost done. Some how the Spring flowers quickly disappear.

In Dallas there is the arboretum where you can walk the grounds and view the flowers.

Today was Wednesday boot camp. It was no walk in the park. We ran out side, the weather was perfect even thought the weatherman said we would be getting severe storms later today( it is raining as I write this) with a chance of hail.

Inside we did lunges, all kinds of lunges. We did chest press and crunches and in between all that we did sprints in the parking lot. Can't wait for Friday!

Hope the flowers are coming up where you live. Enjoy the Spring!

ASSESSMENT DAY

Monday morning and I was up 2 pounds from all the junk I ate including the chocolate covered Peep which wasn't as good as I thought it would be. When I got to the gym she said it was assessment day and we would be taking measurements along with weight.

OUCH! After measurements we were tested on how many crunches and push ups we could do in a minute. I did 25 push ups five of those were regular the rest were on my knees and 25 crunches. This is my first time to be measured so I only can improve with the next test.

There was still time to work out and she made sure it was a tough one, stationary squats with triceps press. Ten on each leg.

Side squats with shoulder lifts, ten on each side

plank with a push up, ten times.

Repeat twice.

Finished with three sets of the above and moved on to abs. We did 80 crunches and then got to stretch it out.

Today was beautiful and I ran outside for 3.96 miles. My legs were still a bit sore from the above workout.

WELCOME SPRING

Here's a picture of my house taken last night while it was snowing. Yes, we had about an inch and a half of white stuff on the ground this morning when I got up. I guess we were lucky because some parts of the Dallas area got eight inches. Needless to say with the strong winds and cold ( you know how I hate the cold) I did not run today.

Everyone in my family who did run, did an awesome job. Congratulations to all of you.

Tomorrow is boot camp and the promise of warmer weather so I'm sure I'll be out side running.

Take a look at Jenny's blog to see her running part of her race on Saturday.

TIRED

Surprise! I wasn't alone at boot camp today. There was someone else who wanted to be tortured. We started with a 1 mile warm up out side and then moved indoors for the following.

squats with shoulder presses using weights 15 reps
dead lift squats with weights 15 reps
V abs 20 reps
sprint out side
Repeat for 5 times

Ab workout with partner standing by your head and pushing your legs back down, 10 on each side and 20 straight down.

I am so tired tonight and my legs feel like dead weight. There is a class tomorrow. Do I want to go, NO!

Seriously, I'm really enjoying the camp and have lost 5 lbs since I started three weeks ago.

This weekend there are a lot of family running races. Good luck to Amy and Stefaan in Belgium, Katy and Tonya in Atlanta running the ING for the third time. Sorry I won't be there this year. Mark and Jenny are running separate races in Florida.