Back With a Capital Vengence!

AM: Gym workout at 9,300 feet while my family goes skiing at Keystone :( Funny how the altitude bothers me and not any of my flatlander family. 30 minutes bike and 10 minutes elliptical followed by hip routine, eucalyptus infused steam room, and hot tub. I am really hurting from the drive yesterday, sad face #2.

AM: 30 minutes bike, mega hip/core workout, hot tub, and steam room. Feeling good!

PM: Cross-country skiing at Breckenridge Nordic area. Snow was amazing and I could ski no problem!!! Best day ever :) Then walked around Breckenridge asking everyone where a girl could get a Seahawks shirt!

AM: 30 minutes bike and hip/core drill. Then hot tub and steam room - I could get used to this lifestyle!

PM: Cross-country skiing at Keystone Nordic area. Feels so good to be outside and "skiing."

AM: 30 minutes bike and 10 minutes elliptical. Began the long drive back to Salt Lake making it a whopping 10 milles before finding out that I70 is closed at Vail Pass. Now I am sitting at the Starbucks in Frisco watching it DUMP and waiting for the road to open.

12 weeks out from hip surgery #3 today and apparently that means that I can run and ski and skip as of today. Realistically I am probably going to give it another month before I even try to run plus I have to wait for the arrival of my ridiculous new shoes!

AM: 30 minutes bike. 10 minutes elliptical. 10 hour drive with ~8 stretching stops.
 

AM: 30 minutes bike.

PM: Walked to the New Balance Store. Hip stuff.

Mega workout at PT adding one-legged dead lifts and Captain Morgan's to the routine.

Millcreek ski, gate to Elbow Fork and then PT.

AM: Millcreek ski again because I can! I want a puppy for a ski partner!

AM2: 20 minutes bike and PT at the gym.

PM: Abbreviated hip PT with lots of stretchies. Need to stretch hip flexor more!

Nada bike. Nada PT. 15 hour work day rest day!

12 weeks of daily glute exercises and now officially ZERO of my pants fit. Do I buy all new pants or do I wear skirts and stretchy pants from here on out?

AM: Valentine-themed early spin class and then crab walks, lunges, squats, plank/clam shells, TAs, captain morgan's (hurts hip flexor too much), and lots of stretchies. Hip flexor gets so so so tight! Oh and almost forgot 10 minutes elliptical before spin while still sleeping...

Speaking of Valentine's Day... best gift idea ever!!!

PM: 90 minute hip massage oh my goodness.Things are really starting to loosen up for me. Pretty sure there is some running on the HORIZON.

And I wore flip-flops to Trader Joe's this evening :)

Went to see a new physical therapist today. I don't like change and the woulda shoulda's.

20 minutes easy bike and no PT tonight. Something has flared up and I don't know what. Not sure if I overdid it in spin class yesterday or the new captain morgans grrrrrr. Pain is weird and I can't pinpoint it. Sort of electrical in nature, random and shooting, starting in my low back and radiating down the outside of my leg. 

PM: So warm I had to get outside! Bike ride attempt on the Jordan River Parkway, which was closed after a mile so I wandered around weird place between highways, sesspools, and dirt piles until I got scared.

PM2: Walking evaulation at PT using fancy new million dollar treadmill. Also added one-legged squats to the PT routine. My walking-ness is about one zillion times better than last look and darn near perfect as far as stride length, forces, and other technical things meaning...

AM: 25 minute walk around Morris Meadows with 2 x 45 seconds of ***RUNNING***interspersed.

AM2: 30 minute interval workout on the stationary bike and then mega hip/glute/core workout. Speaking of glutes, loved this - Chasing Gold (and Jeans that Fit)!!!

I don't think I am quite ready to start running yet, I really want to wait until my right glute starts firing properly, my core gets a little stronger, and I have most my muscle imbalances fixed. I just needed to know it was possible and that my hip can withstand the impact, which it nicely did without pain yippie skip! I just did this to help the motivation. It is a bit daunting to start running again from scratch, again.

AM: 90 minute ride on the Legacy. Lots of cyclists out! My butt still hasn't thawed out an hour later...

35 minute elliptical rather be running through desert grrr grumble grumble. 

AM: Went up Millcreek to see if it was skiable and after a half mile I decided it was not and then I tried to walk on the Pipeline Trail which was glare ice and then I gave up and went to the gym for 30 minutes on the bike and 20 on the elliptical followed by squats, lunges, yada yada. What a stupid waste of a long weekend! I am ready for winter again - I want to walk to frozen winter ice caves!

PM: 60 minutes of new pilates physical therapy. It is essentially neuromuscular rehabalitation using pilates type movments with a trained physcial therapist. It was super fun yet ridiculously hard! I have weird muscles firing when they shouldn't and now I have to get the right ones working!

Core, low back, upper back, flank, and arms super sore from pilates PT yesterday. I barely even moved so I can't believe how sore I am.

AM: 60 minute spin class and now my legs are as sore as the rest of me. Tuesday morning spin lady is ruthless!

30 minute walk.

30 minute walk and Pilate-PT.

3 x 45 seconds of RUNNING on the BST behind the U with 10 minute warm-up and 5 minutes hiking in between. Super fun - yippy! Back was super spazzy after, but mellowed out after about an hour and some stretchies and rollies.

AM: 50 minute hike on the BST from Morris Meadows.

PM: 20 mile bike ride on the JRP/Legacy.

Ummm today I would call glorious! I haven't used that word since last spring...

19 miles biking on the Legacy. Why do I always feel shorter sitting in my car after a bike ride?

15-hour workday "rest day."

Ummm so I totally bonked or had a freak-out 40 minutes into Spin class. I was working pretty hard and after the 2nd speed workout dealie thing I couldn't get my legs moving and I felt all light-headed and the only thing I wanted to do was bolt out of class, which I did with wibbly wobbly legs. 

Can you bonk after only 40 minutes? Do people eat before morning workouts? This has never happened to me before, but I had a 15 hour workday yesterday, haven't been sleeping more than 6 hours/night the past week, and hadn't really had anything to eat after 4pm yesterday so I am guessing that is what did it.

I just need to hold on until March 14th! I am in the middle of moving and changing jobs which means working 2.5 jobs at the moment and sleeping and eating like crap. I am so not hardcore!