Yes, I seriously slept 10 hours last night. Aaron left for Seattle yesterday afternoon so I didn't have anyone to hang out with after the kids were in bed. I was feeling tired probably from my illness and I didn't really feel like wasting my time watching a movie when I could be peacefully sleeping. Also my baby was having a hard time falling to sleep so I just held her and let her cuddle with me in bed and the next thing I knew it was midnight and we had been asleep for hours. I put her back in her crib at midnight and slept until 6am when she woke up for the day. Went to the gym and decided my hip felt good enough to try running today, so I carefully ran 2 miles in 18 minutes. My hip was slightly tight, but definitely improving. Then I hopped on the elliptical and did a 30 minute workout. Threw a random sampling of surges with 1 minute rest in between each; I think it was something like this: 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, 3 min, 2 min, 1 min, 30 sec, 1 min, 1 min, 30 sec, 1 min. Just did what I felt up for in the moment. It felt good to get my heart beating fast and the sweat dripping. The guy next to me kept giving me strange looks when I did my surges as he observed my speed go up into the 13+mph range. It was funny. Another funny moment was when one of the Bally's trainers, Margie took her step class out of the aerobics room to do lunges around the track. It was like watching a mother duck lead her ducklings through their first walk across a street. Margie was smiling and waving at friends while doing her lunges in perfect form. A couple of other enthusiasts were of similar cheery attitude while powering through their lunges, and then there were those few new ducklings who were in obvious pain, trying to simplify the lunges by doing some kind of penguin walk. Good entertainment. I also did some core/hip work and weight lifting afterwards. Great workout today! Feeling happier about life. Glad that I'm over my illness and on my way to being healed from my injury. I'm going to see my ART guy, Richey again this afternoon and then I'll rest Sunday and pray I can run a little more on Monday. | 