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I love hot yoga!
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I woke up this morning and found 6 boxes of girlscout cookies on the dining room table. They weren’t there when I went to bed! A friend of ours has two daughters who are girlscouts. Apparently, Phil didn’t know about my pact with my sister to give up sweets for lent! Either that or he just couldn’t resist a couple of cute kids.
They are in our freezer right now, out of sight, out of mind right? I feel like the guy in the movie “What It Takes.” He doesn’t keep any food in the house, so he won’t cheat.
The cookies are calling me! Should I keep my word? or support the scouts?
Ran/hill repeats near Woodland Park. My foot hurts.
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I took the last week in January off running. I got my new orthodics on February 3rd. I ran for the first time in the orthodics one week later on February 11th. The following week I ran twice. Last week I was able to run 3 times. My goal is to keep my running to 3 days per week as I recover.
I ran today at Greenlake for about 40 minutes straight. I have been stopping and stretching in between each mile, so this was almost back to normal running for me. I didn’t have serious pain for the first few minutes: this is progress. Slow progress! Emphasis on the slow! I feel like I am running at a snails pace. My aerobic conditioning is lacking.
I think I need to get into spin class again until I can push myself with running again. It’s amazing how fast you lose it!
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I love working out with my 13 year old daughter, Natasha. She is an athlete who made the switch from gymnastics and dance to volleyball about 2 years ago. Natasha began competing as a gymnast at 6 years of age. She is very familiar with training and conditioning.
Some of the conditioning Natasha did in gymnastics has helped with volleyball. She is coordinated and very flexible. She also has incredible team spirit. Hand-eye coordination is something new for her. Her dad, who played a lot of sports growing up, has had a great time practicing bumping, setting and serving with her.
I played a little basketball and tennis in junior high and high school. I was a late bloomer and didn’t get much playing time. Running was a better fit for me, therefore I leave the sports specific stuff to her dad. My job as a personal trainer and a former gymnastics coach is to help Natasha with strength training.
We are working on building strength and learning how to transfer power. It’s a lot different than gymnastics even though both sports are explosive. We are spending time in the weight room, doing a lot of body weight squats, lunges and presses with light weights. She is learning how integrate her core and control her body. Volleyball is such a fast sport and she needs to be ready to move quickly and anticipate the ball.
It’s great to work with her because she and I both need to work on strengthening the core, and maintaining strength and mobility in the lower body. We both need to work on balance etc. Our goal is to get the gym twice a week for strength training.
Lifted weights with Tasha.
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I met with my physical therapist yesterday and she told me to keep being patient with my recovery from plantar fasciitis. She advised me not to run the St Paddy’s dash in March and to keep doing my exercises and keep doing yoga. I am getting rather tired of this whole thing!
I went directly from my physical therapy appointment to yoga. I was surprised to find a huge crowd of people in line when I went to check in before class. This was not the usual crowd of women and skinny wiry guys that typically take class. There were a bunch of big tall guys in Seahawks clothing waiting in line. “Oh, I didn’t know this was Seahawks yoga.” I said to one of the players. “Why don’t you go ahead?” he said as he and his teammates were taking off their shoes.
I got my usual spot in the corner near the front. I like this spot because it’s a little closer to the door and not quite as hot. The Cute Blonde Football player that I spoke with earlier put his mat down next to mine. The class was filling up pretty fast. The other players, some really tall and muscular guys were also in the front row. Toni came in and switched the guys in the front row with some students who had taken class before. I found myself surrounded by Seahawks.
You could almost feel the testosterone as we went through our series of down dogs, up dogs and chattarangas. Toni was great about describing modifications in the poses. I was definitely aware of the guy next to me with huge shoulders and a couple of tattoos. I think we did a few more pushups than usual. The players were starting to melt!
I don’t know if I got a better work out or not but my heart rate was definitely higher!
You know you’re getting old when your kids order silent ring tones that you can’t hear. Apparently, these “silent” ring tones aren’t really silent. Supposedly, the ring tones cannot be heard by people over 30 years old. No kidding my son ordered a free ring tone, that I can’t hear.
Test for yourself…. test here
Although I got a late start, I’ve been a serious runner since 1994. I ran my first marathon in 1995 on my 30th Birthday. It’s been my goal to run the Boston Marathon since then. I missed qualifying by 12 minutes that year. I needed to run 3:40 and ran 3:52. Running in the most prestigious marathon, is the ultimate for most runners. The fact that you have to qualify, only fueled my competitive juices.
Over the next 9 years I ran 6 more marathons. I love running so much that I became a personal trainer and running coach in 2001. I continued to train and came within 4 minutes of my goal in 2003, when I ran 3:49. I was seriously hoping to qualify in 2004, but it didn’t happen. I had flare ups of plantar fasciitis off and on since I began running. In 2006 I ran 5 half marathons. Apparently this was too much for my body to handle. My plantar fasciitis became acute. I had to take time off to heal. (more...) 