I can do it!

My plan this morning was to do P90X legs, but Ben woke up to do it with me, and since he has it downloaded on his laptop, we were able to actually do the workout in our GYM instead of in my office!  And THAT means that I had a pull-up bar to work with...so instead of doing JUST legs, I was able to do legs AND back!  I'll admit, I looked like an idiot trying to do the pull-ups, but Ben said that he could see the muscles in my back, so I tried evern harder to do them.  :D  Boy oh boy, did I work up a sweat!  It was a great workout.  And we topped it off with ab-ripper X.  I'm loving watching the definition appear in my abdomen.  I don't believe I have ever had ab definition before, but maybe I was just not paying attention when I was a youth.  Oh, well, it doesn't really matter to me.  I'm just glad to be a 39-year-old mother-of-eight-babies with AB muscles!  Yes!!!

This evening we went to the pool, as usual, and I did 63 minutes of water-running.  This weekend I will have built up to my three hours of water-running, and then - back to the road!!!!  Actually, I promised myself that I would try to stay off my legs until eleven weeks had gone by, so I have to wait until March 9th, but that still gives me a couple of days to try out real running before I run the Dallas Rock-n-Roll Half on March 14th.  I guess I will have to keep water-running for another week, but at least I will be finished with the REALLY long runs.  Oh, so BORING.

I did my HIIT on the recumbant bike this morning with Joshua again.  I was NOT going to let him kick my trash again, so I pedaled like a maniac and didn't lower my levels as quickly as he did.  In fact, on the cool down, I kept my resitance up by quite a bit!  But he ended up coming in almost 2 tenths of a mile higher than me!  I think the machines lie.  So I covered up my shame by doing an hour of ZUMBA and an hour of YOGA this evening, just to show the boy who the boss is.  :D

This morning I did P90X shoulder and arms, and, of course, finished off the workout with ab-ripperX.  Then this evening I did an hour of water-running at the pool, afterwhich Ben wanted to go put some miles in at the gym, so I did 22 minutes on the elliptical-of-doom (1.01 miles) and cooled down with 22 minutes on the treadmill, walking (1.13 miles).  I went a long way between meals, so I was HUNGRY this evening!  :D

I started out this morning with my usual HIIT on the recumbant bike.  I felt like my heart wasn't in it, but I tried to do my best anyway.  My milage was a little lower than it has been recently, but not too bad.  I DID work up a really good sweat!

I decided to take a free day on food today, because I really wanted sushi buffet and because I had to travel with a group of friends to an audition.  So I gorged myself on sushi and followed up our audition day with a trip to Dairy Queen for a medium-sized peanut-butter-cup-cheesequake blizzard!  Yummy, yum yum!  Then I drank water like a crazy woman, because I had totally forgotten to drink all day, and it made me feel very bloated.  I was later getting to the gym in time for ZUMBA, and I really felt too full to do yoga, so I decided to try doing something cardio to help sweat it off.  Nothing sounded appealing, so I started walking on the treadmill.  That wasn't doing the job for me, so, in a moment of extreme weakness, I RAN.  Yes, it's true.  It felt SO GOOD to run again...I can't even express it.  This is a week and a half earlier than I had planned, but I was surprised at how easy it felt.  I was only going to do a teensy bit of running, but once I got started, I couldn't help myself, and I just had to find out how conditioned I was.  This is what my workout looked like.

1 mile walk at 3.0 MPH

1/2 mile run at 6.0 MPH

1/2 mile walk at 3.0 MPH

Then I started running at 6.5 MPH, and every tenth of a mile I upped my speed 1/10th of a mile faster, until I got to 7.5 MPH.  I did 2/10th there, and again at 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, 8.5, 8.0, and 7.5 MPH.  I finished with 1/10th of a mile at 7.0, 6.5, and 6.0, then cooled down with a 4/10ths walk at 3.0 MPH.  My total time on the treadmill was 63:04, and I did a total of 5 miles.  I figure that the 5k I ran was approximately 26:30.  Not bad for 9 1/2 weeks off!  I'm still going to try to be good for another week and a half, but I may sneak a run or two in before then...we'll see how/if my back reacts.

Easy Friday - only ONE workout today!  And it was a Lower Body Workout.  I went back to the gym to do the weight machines for the first time in a couple of weeks, and I was SHOCKED to find out how easy it was!  Good ole P90X!  I started out the workout with a 10-minute warm-up on the dreaded elliptical, then moved over to the machines.  I finished my last set of leg extensions at 92.5 lbs., and it was just right - everything else needed to increase a LOT.  When I started this in January, I was only doing 67.5 lbs. on my final set!  Every weight I did felt easy.  I wrapped up the session with some ab-ripperX.  I weighed in this morning at 123 lbs, the day after a VERY free-food day, so I figured that wasn't too bad.  :D

This morning was my LAST long pool run - hopefully!!!  I'm so happy I think I need to have a party!  I did a full three hours.  Monday I'm going to hit the road, Jack.  :D