I can do it!

I had an interesting Upper Body Work Out this morning.  For some reason, all the weights that were difficult to do last week were super EASY this week!  It's like I had a burst of strength!  :D  It will be REALLY interesting to see how it feels on Friday, when I increase all the weights...

I wrapped up the evening with a 60 minute water-run.  Boring, as always, but I got the job done.

This morning I started out with a 20 minute HIIT on the recunbant bike. I'm really working on getting my intensity levels up higher. Then this evening, I did a mile on the dreaded elliptical, and finished up with a half hour of yoga stretching.

Lower body workout this morning.  I think I finally have the weights where they should be to give me a challenge.  This evening I did 60 minutes of water-running at the pool.  I was seriously tired, but I forced myself to do it anyway.  :D

I started out this morning with a HIIT on the recumbant bike. I'm getting down to that weight where I start feeling dizzy. Weird. My energy levels are high, though - for the most part I feel pretty good. I just have to be careful not to stand up too quickly. This evening I went back to the gym and did my one mile of torture on the elliptical, then cooled down with another mile of the recumbant bike. Good day.

I found out last night that I'm scheduled to work the half-marathon tomorrow, so it kind of screwed up my plan to do my own half-marathon in the pool in the morning.  So I decided to do it today.  But first, I did my upper body workout, and I made sure I did it hard, since Monday was so easy.  I was shaking at the end.  I thought, "There's no way I'm going to be able to spend two hours in the pool."  But then I did it anyway...because I'm cool that way.  One hundred and thirty-one minutes!  Yeah.

Well, I did the bulk of my training yesterday, so that I could work as a volunteer for the Saint George Half Marathon today! It was fun...I got to hand out "blankets" at the finish line, so I was in a great position to see Ben and the three kids come across!  What a great, inspiring day.  I sure do wish I could have run it, though...

I DID manage to get to the gym before the race to do a 20 minute HIIT on the recumbant bike.  My legs were tired from the workouts yesterday, so I lowered the resistence levels and pedaled my buns off.  Well, not really, but it's nice to dream.  Later on that day, Ben wanted to run some more (crazy!) so we went back to the gym and I walked a mile and a half while he ran four....hmmmm.