I Can Do Hard Things

I was planning on running this morning, but when I walked into the gym and saw an open stairmill, I jumped at the opportunity!  It was nice and quiet at the gym this President's Day morning!

5 miles on the stair mill

Sledding with the YW/YM at Mutual Dell.  Skiing is so much easier than sledding :)  Quick lunch at In N Out with my cute kids.

PM:

3x

16 plank with a row

10 jump squats

10/side   side plank with lift

10 lunge matrix with weight

15 wall squats on ball with weights

15 skull crushers

1 mile walk on TM to loose the In N Out gut!  Cousins are leaving today and my house needs a good cleanin'!!! 

We got new health insurance at the beginning of the year.  It will pay $20/month toward a gym membership if you go 12 times/month.  Our current membership expired in January, so we decided to do a month-month contract for $25/month.  With our new insurance gym plan, it only costs us $5/month to go to the gym.  Did that make sense?  

Except I only went to the gym once last week (but I still worked out every day at home).  So to make up my "days", I have to go to the gym every day this week.  Which means early...early...early.....

It was a running day for me (recovery week!!!!!).  First I decided to hunt down a Smith Machine to get some hard-core squats in.  But they were all used, so I had to use this other machine that I didn't like as much.  Hard life I have :)

3x

10 squats

10 REAL push ups

50 calf raises

20 v ups

3 miles on the TM.  I've been wracking my brain for the past few weeks as to WHY  my ankle is still so achy.  It was fine up to the St George Half Marathon in January.  Which is when I bought my home TM.  I'm wondering if they might be a contributing factor???  Maybe one of many.  But I'm going to keep track of achiness and running at home.

Long foam rolling session and a set of LLL and roll outs on SB.

AM:

Early morning at the gym.  The only open stairmill was the slippery handle one...yuck.  I did 3 miles on it.  Then I went to refill my water and the guy next to me was getting off his machine.  I quickly claimed it and pounded out another quick 3 miles.  The last 1.5 miles, I did a minute hard, minute easy.  Total of 6 miles.

PM:

1 mile walk at home TM

3x

30/30/20 - LLL

20 B6 on the Bosu

60 sec plank with feet on ball

10/side - side planks with lift

30 scissor

15 roll out on stability ball

20 supermans on Bosu 

Hubby had stuff this morning, so I opted to go to the gym when he got home from work.

3x

10 x squats on the Smith machine

10 x real push ups

50 x calf raises

Various ab stuff

20 x B6

10 x roll out on stability ball

5 mile run. I really tried to focus on form and I really stink at it.

Long foam roll and stretch

I slept so horrible last night and had a hard time rolling out of bed at 5:00am.  But I did and got to the gym in one piece.

4 miles on the TM.  I wore my lighter weight shoes this morning to see if it would help my ankle.  I felt like it was easier to run shorter steps in them, but my ankle is still very achy.  

I was thinking last night of trying to get into my PT.  But then I thought maybe I need to see my sports medicine doctor.  Maybe I need another x-ray???

This achy ankle is driving me nutso.  I got my stress fracture in August, started run/walking again in October.  I only run 3 days/week and increase my mileage by 2 miles/week.  WHAT GIVES!!!! 

No running today...just high hopes of good snow with my daughter.  Family blog post: 

Annie and I headed up to the Brighton Ski Resort this morning with high hopes of good snow and lots of laughs.  We had lots of laughs on the way up, but were met by Mother Nature fiercest's snow storm.  "White Out" would be an understatement.

We did two very painful, cold runs and decided to eat lunch at 10:55am!  We layered on extra socks and layers.  Then headed out for another attempt.  One run later, we skied directly to the car despite the incredible snow.  Poor Annie was frozen to the bone.

The parking attendants at the resort did a VERY poor job of parking the skiers vehicles today.  I had about one inch of extra room to get my vehicle out of the parking lot.  It was a bit stressful with all the snow and wind.

After many prayers of safety, we headed down the mountain.  Unfortunately, our van is the WORST in the snow.  (and NO it is not the driver)!!!!  I happened to pull out first in a long line of cars.  My top speed was 15 mph and there were many times where we were at a complete stop because we couldn't see.  The wind was blowing SO violently and there was NO visibility.  I have never been that scared driving EVER.  

We finally reached the mouth of the canyon and were welcomed by blue skies.  I have NEVER been so grateful to see the plowed freeway.

Annie and I stopped at Cheesecake Factory and snarfed down a piece of chocolate cake.  It was definitely the highlight of our day.

Though we didn't ski a lot of slopes, we definitely had a lot of stories to tell!