Hurricane Break!

what a first week at school!!  Earthquake on tuesday, then evacuated for a hurricane friday!  It was nuts!!  quite an eventful first day at school!!  I did a few haphazard workouts, but I am still working to get back into routine!  Thursday afternoon I headed over to the track and ran a mile of stride the straights jog the curves.  I did some push ups, one set of 25, one set of 15 and a set of 10 claps  :)    in between sets I did two sets of 2 min abs.  It was really hard!  Been a long time since I have used those muscles! Guess ive got some work to do before the season starts!

Friday Kelsey and I headed out of the area and back to Pittsburgh/Ohio for Kole's first birthday party!  I cannot believe he is one already!!!  He is so incredibly cute!! It was so much fun playing with him all day saturday!!!  Sunday morning, Kelsey Meghan and I got up and headed to a park near them.  The loop they wanted to run was 5 miles.  I hung with Meghan for the first half.  Then went into a bit of a psycho mode and went crazy for the last half and pulled away from her.  Had to slow down every once in a while to get directions :)  It felt really good to push that hard on a run!  But I still have lots to do if Kels and I are going to run a 10 k in october!  It took me just under 45 mins to run the loop!  Not bad, since that is the farthest I have ever run!!!  After a great breakfast and some cards, Kels and I got back on the road.  We are now in a hotel in Williamsburg and hoping to be back to normal by tomorrow night!  Been quite a week, but I can honestly say that I am really excited for this semester.  I think it is going to go better than I originally intended!

Back to School

It is very different being back at school.  To those of you who actually enjoy reading this, I am sorry I have been slacking lately.  It has been a crazy few weeks.  Last week at the beach I did get back to working out.  Meghan pretty much ran vacation boot camp!!  She had Kels and I up every morning to run.  Then we went on Bike rides with Auntie Pat, and in the evening we would attempt to swim.  I was proud of myself for being able to run with her for the most part, especially towards the end of the week.  It has been a while since I really worked out.  Having someone else to motivate me was awesome.

Now I am back at CNU.  I have been to nearly all of my classes.  Some stuff with profs has changed and been a pain, but I really think it will work out, and I am looking forward to seeing what happens.  It has been great to be back with my sisters, roommates, teammates and friends again.  I missed everyone a lot.  Happy for new friends and glad to still be close to the older ones.

Yesterday morning I got up and headed to the track to run 30 m cut backs.  It was the first time I had sprinted in like 5 weeks!!  I did 2 sets of 10 with an extra at the end of the second.  They felt pretty good, but today my legs are sore.  Yesterday was a tough day overall, and I was super tired last night. Rather than get up this morning and run I waited until after my class.  I am so excited for Inorganic!!  And Dr. Fattah is going to help me get research!!!!!!  I ran a 2 mile loop around campus, my body wasnt super into it after what I put it through all day yesterday, but I need to get to work if I am going to survive a thanksgiving 10k!!!  Now to spend the rest of my day with errands and homework! Fun stuff!!

Hiking???

So Dad decided that we were going hiking today.  So we got up at 8 and headed to the poconos.  3 hours and a stop at Denny's later we were at the park.  Unfortunately, it was pouring down rain, and did so for the entire 2 hours we walked!  It was still a blast though!!  The waterfalls were sweet!!!  Overall, it was like a 5 mile walk.  Not a bad workout for the day, and I had so much fun with my parents and brother.

Trying to remotivate...

These past few weeks have been rough for me.  For some reason I have not had the motivation to work out very much.  I have been working a lot, and work has been tiring me out.  It been weird but I have been incredibly lazy.  I am trying to get re-motivated and get back into it before I go to school.  I was supposed to go to the Y today, but instead I took a 2.5 hour nap.  When I woke up I felt worse than when I went to sleep!!!  I some how got my act together enough to get outside and jump rope.  Felt like it would be fun.  It was actually really hard!!  I did 3 sets of 100 forward, forward, backward, right and left.  Then ended with a set with crossovers cause they are fun.  Added up to 1600 jumps total.  My legs were tired and it was actually a really tough cardio workout since I have been lazy lately.  Hoping to find new motivation and get moving again soon.  If nothing else I am excited to go to the beach and plan on swimming laps there.  Then, when I go to school I know i will get going again.  Just cant shack this exhaustion...

Another day at the gym

Today I had a haircut about 2 hours after i was done with work, so i chose to stay and work out.  The team girls were there so I headed down to the mini gym to be out of the way.  I started with some jump roping to warm up.  Then did 3 sets of 15 step ups on each legs.  Next was 3 handstand holds, 30, 45 and 60 secs.  Followed by 3 sets of 2 min abs.  Then for some more legs i did 3 sets of 1 min wall sits, and 3 sets of 10 box jumps.  For some more arms I did 3 sets of 20 push ups.  To round out the abs I did 3 sets of 10 windshield wipers up against the wall.  Happy with my haircut.  Overall it was a nice day, little more motivated to get working out again.  We will see how I feel in the morning, may just try to go to the y  after work.

Gymnastics workout???

So today, after a moderately painful trip to the dentist, i went to work about 45 mins early and decided to workout a little before I had to start teaching.  I did a quick circuit of stuff that I remembered doing so long ago...  It ended up being a full body workout which was a nice way to wake up all my muscles and hopefully get them going again.  I started with chin up pullovers, much harder than I remembered,  did 10 on the first set, 5 on the second.  Then I did 10 dips (both sets).  Next was leg lifts, both sets of 10, much harder than I remember when done on the wall!!  Then I did upside down rope climbs,  i was quite pleased with how well these actually went!  after wards was an ab exercise I don't remember the name of, I laid on the floor, held the support of one of the bars, and tried to lift my body up from my shoulders as straight as possible, i think both sets were of 10.  Then I headed over to the beam where I did a bunch of calf raises, and 1 set of 10, 1 set of 8 single leg squats, i guess u would call them.  Surprisingly, my legs were stronger than I remember!!  These felt really good on my right knee, some of the strength it still needs to recover!  Finished out the circuit with sets of 5 handstand push ups!  Overall, it was a nice day.  Great way to kill time before taking the kids to the bowling alley!  Hopefully, I can get myself back on a more regular workout routine soon, but honestly since november I have not taken more than a week off, so I think my body is enjoying a little time to recharge.