Ran, and will Yoga too.

I don't think I've been pushing myself hard enough lately. I certainly haven't been challenging my fitness levels with the on-again off-again training I've been doing. But despite that, I was reminded today that I am not in as bad a condition as I'd thought. Workout today was 60 minutes on the Treadmill. I did a 2 minute walking (3.8mph) and 10 minute running (5.5mph) cycle. And honestly my legs/body were fine. It was my brain that didn't want to cope with everything. I'm of the opinion that training your brain to believe you CAN do somthing is much harder than training your body to actually do it.

Now that I've registered for the Helvetia/Drop Top 10k I figured I'd better see if I can keep moving for an hour at a time, and shore-nuff I did! I covered 5.3 miles and burned 640 calories to boot. I feel good, I plan to go to Bikram this afternoon for another 600+ calorie burn and some DEEP stretching. I think I'll do an easy run on Thursday and take Friday off before Helvetia. (and yes, I'm hydrating... I just finished litre #3 of water and will be powering thru at least two more before yoga.)

I haven't talked much about home/kids/etc. lately but that's mostly because everything is good. We're anxious for school to get out (they're not done until June 22nd here) so we can do more fun family stuff and start swimming lessons and the like. My older son is at or above grade-level in all of his subjects which is a HUGE accomplishment considering the challenges we had at the beginning of the year. My younger son (3 yrs) can sing his ABCs and count to 20 and is recognizing about 1/2 of the alphabet. My hubby is spending a lot of time at work, but when he's not we're doing well and I'm feeling very loved and appreciated these days.

Oh... and DAMN I am loving the yard. Going to try to get the irish moss in between the rocks this weekend... its a goal, ya gotta have em, don'tchaknow.

Posted by Lexy at June 8, 2005 12:49 PM