Sunday, March 23rd:

30 minutes StairMaster, with me as usual calling it a draw at the end
30 minutes shoulders, biceps & triceps
30 minute leg day

March 23: 13 miles running treadmill incline 2% (1:52:59)
4 miles walking with dogs (1:04:41)
Rodney Yee Yoga Burn (60 mins)
30 minutes foam rolling

March 20: 2.5 mile run, 75 minute vinyasa flow yoga class
March 21: rest day
March 22: 1 mile treadmill warmup run, barbell squats (squatted bodyweight!!!!!!!!), barbell deadlifts, glute bridges, planks.
March 23: rest day
March 24 AM: 20 min on arc trainer, 50 kettlebell swings, planks

March 24: P90X 3 CUX (30 mins)
P90X 3 Dynamic (30 mins)
45 minutes weight lifting (chest shoulders triceps)
30 minutes foam rolling

Monday, March 24th:

My first running class. There are six of us, all women, ranging from a marathoner and a triathlete, to me, to women trying to get back to running after the winter to one woman who got winded during the warmup. I'm in the middle. I cannot tell you how anxious I felt all day long about this class, and how I dreaded the cold (it was just in the 30s today, though sunny), now I feared I'd get tired while everyone else ran & ran.

We ran on the gorgeous, expensively surfaced track at the affluent high school, which is a state powerhouse in track & field. It's a 400-meter track. We were supposed to run for 20 minutes. I forget how many laps I did without stopping. Maybe six?

She advised us to run three times each week. I have to step it up.

Her only comment to me was to keep going, and she said I ran with a natural skip. This makes me feel slightly better about the whole thing.

March 24 PM: 5 minute elliptical warmup, assisted chinups and dips, DB bench press, barbell overhead press, lying tricep extensions, bent over DB rows, 75 KB swings, 50 KB deadlifts, planks

March 25: 3.09 miles in 25:00, calf raises, planks.

Tuesday, March 25th:

30 minutes Stairmaster, which my legs did not appreciate during about the last five minutes
60 minutes chest, shoulders & triceps

saef, this is lovely. It brings a wonderful picture to mind of someone who has natural joie de vivre and who doesn't care. It's such a positive thing to say. This group sounds as though it'll be good. I'd like to come but can't really make it.

My exercise has been pathetic as I have a virus/cold/something horrible.

Saef-- I understand your anxiety about your running class. That is great that you feel positive about it and you're in the middle!

March 22: 100 minutes bikram yoga

March 23: 100 minutes bikram yoga

March 24: fantastic bikram yoga class-- each one the past three days has been better than the one before... but my back is acting up....again... 100 minutes bikram yoga

Totals:
22 workouts
2175 minutes

LOVE the visual of a "natural skip", saef!! See, you ain't a disaster when it comes to running!

March 25: 7 miles running (53:31)
50 minutes ab and core work
30 minutes foam rolling

March 25: 95 minutes bikram yoga. I had to go to a school board meeting so I left yoga 5 minutes early to shower-- I hate leaving early but I was proud I didn't use it as an excuse not to exercise.

Totals:
23 workouts
2270 minutes

March 26: 13 minutes on stair stepper, 3 x 8 DB Bulgarian split squats, 3 x 8 Smith machine squats, 50 KB swings, 50 KB deadlifts

March 26: P90X Kempo
60 minutes weight lifting (back and legs)
30 Minutes foam rolling

Thanks all. It's nice to remember Monday night ...

... because today was awful. Up at 4:30 AM, no gym, at the office by 7 AM, working till 6:30 PM, through lunch. Too late for spin class.

I felt chewed up & spat out.

Walked to the gym like a zombie, telling myself, "Just walk on the treadmill, you'll feel more energized." Well, a little. Couldn't run, though I wanted to. Finally did some one-minute sprints at 6.0, then walked at 3.5. That was all I could manage.

So yeah: Wednesday, March 26th:

45 minutes treadmill walking

Thursday, March 27th:

60 minutes elliptical, resistance at nine, alternating backward & forward
5 x 5 deadlifts fixed barbell 100 lbs.
60 minute Pilates mat class