Amanda - that is fantastic! Love finding unknown skills. I bet you were fabulous!
Last night I was able to touch my forehead to my knees on a forward fold. My knees were jut a little bent, but just barely. I have never been able to even get close before...
I also am past 700 miles on my year to date run-bike miles. More than I did all last year - 2009 ended at 696. Woo hoo!
Okay, today I'm going for the "most improved" brag. I feel like such a bragger posting about my triathlon times on like every single thread, but this one is going to be about my improvement over last year on the same race.
Last year's swim: 23:21
This year's swim: 15:46
Improvement: 32% (7:25)
Last year's bike: 1:05:17 (11.4 mph)
This year's bike: 50:51 (14.7 mph)
Improvement: 22% (14:26)
Last year's run: 47:30, but I walked due to stomach cramp (15:17/mile)
This year's run: 37:36 (12:06/mile)
Improvement: 21% (9:54)
That brings my swim time up to the back of the pack!
While I'm blasting away PRs, I did a 5k race this past weekend and blasted my 5k PR. Funny because I wasn't very enthused for this race, figured I'd probably be slow, didn't really care about the results (was just doing it for fun), and felt slow in my warmup. However, according to my watch, I finished the 5k in 34:45! My previous PR was 35:30. Gun time official results were 35:23 but it took me a while to get across the start line because of all the people, so I'm going by my watch instead.
Well, I have another sort of strange NSV. My athletic feats of strength have inspired their very own 3FC exercise challenge!
I present you with the "Mandalinn82's Holy Cow Plank Challenge"
MANDALINN82'S HOLY COW PLANKS
Plank (hold 15 sec)
Pushup
Drop to Elbow Plank (hold 15 sec)
Dolphin (while on elbows, clasp hands and push up into a downward-dog-like position) (hold 15 sec)
Lower back into an Elbow Plank
Back up to regular plank and start again!
The goal is to get through 6 without faceplanting, which is my max in a set. Very weird to have my own state be a "goal" in a challenge!