As I was doing the run this morning, I thought how much this sucked. It was cold and I am so sore from 2 days of pull ups. But as much as it sucked, it was awesome too. Here I am getting to workout with a group of strong, funny, amazin women all working on the same goal — living a fit and healthy life.

Someone told me the other day how ‘tiny‘ I was now and someone else piped in and asked me to tell them the secret. I am sure she didn’t appreciate the answer I gave but I didn’t hold back. I said ‘sorry – no secret. I get my ass up at 5A during the week and workout and I don’t eat crap food’. That is no secret. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, we all know that we need to make fitness and health a priority in our lives and find something that works for us and more importantly, incorporate it into our daily lives –it can’t be a half baked effort either. The way life is now a days  – it’s so much easier to do nothing. You have to research, plan, do — over and over again until it works. Fake it until you make it! I am not going to sugar coat this type of life. It takes effort, work, commitment and some sacrifice. For me, it has been worth it — I feel better, I have met some really wonderful and special people who have given me so much more than I ever could imagine, and in my opinion – I look better now than I have ever looked and I will be turning the big 40 in February. How’s that for hard work paying off?  I guess yesterday’s news of cancer claiming someone else way too early has me reflecting on health and fitness. In so many cases, living healthier can help fight off so many cancers, why wouldn’t you get to work?

warmup
side shuffle
push ups
checkpoints
skip jumps

corex2
feet hooked with partner
crunches
side to side hands on shoulders
platinum sit ups
general stretching
25 side push ups(high 5 the person next to you alternating side)

WOD
15,12,9,6,3
65lb back squats
TGUs
25lb db Single Arm Swings (each arm)
Double Box Jumps x2
450m, 100m (alternate)

I finished in 34m and change — not within the 30 min time limit but considering I didn’t finish the last time we did this WOD, I count that as a win! I modified the TGU a bit and did not use any weight on one side because my left arm still hurts when I put full on weight on it. Gotta do what you gotta do to heal —

Rest day tomorrow, and instead of camp on Thursday, we are all meeting up for the Turkey Trot in Lansdowne to do a 5k race with added ‘stations’ compliments of Plumbline Training. Should be fun, fun, fun!