2015 Exercise Log/Challenge

[Crankin]

This morning I did 35 minutes of yoga at home.
DH took the afternoon off and we just got back from a snowshoe in our local conservation land. OMG, it was hard, as the trail was sort of packed in the beginning, but not at all near the turn around point, after we cross into another town. Gaiters and poles were definitley needed today. The climb up the ridge was quite strenuous in deeper snow. This took about 15 minutes longer than usual, about an hour. But, it's nice out, around 32 degrees.
Off to REI to scout out a few things we think we need to change up for our trip, including new waist packs.
More snow tomorrow (just a little) and finally, my PT appointment.

[Crankin]

The trip to REI was worthless! They"re out of everything. This is prime winter sports season, through the middle of March or later up north. So, we were not close to home at rush hour and ended up going out to dinner to avoid traffic. A very delicious and healthy dinner of baked salmon, fresh veggies, and a sweet potato. Started researching on line and found most of what I want, but I cannot find a water bottle holder that is a lighter waist pack than what I have and can hold a change of gloves or head cover. This is impacting my back issues, so I may end up just dealing with being too hot and using jacket pockets, to get a lighter pack. Anyway, finally had my PT today. SI joint locked out on the left (not the source of my biggest issue) and he discovered mylegs are a bit weak for someone who does what I do. I have 2-3 more things to do at home. He did some manipulation and unlocked the joint and I go back Tuesday. He did say that he doesn't find any signs of hip issues or arthritis in my hips, but the stiffness I feel is just normal aging. I can take this from him, as he is my age!
Just did 40 minutes on the trainer, of hill intervals in short bursts for 20 of the 40 minutes. Then I did 5 more minutes of stretches.

[Crankin]

Boot camp this morning. Hard. We did stations with partners. Catrin, one of the exercises was a kettle ball swing. I am in awe of you!
I am gonna feel this later.

[Catrin]

Crankin Glad that you got to play with kettlebells!

I made the mistake of seeing my chiro before class last night for some Active Release work as part of my competition preparation. He found some scar tissue at the base of my skull and released it. I should have asked him to wait until next week as this caused residual pain and inflammation. So much that I had to quit in the middle of our workout last night. Ice and heat last night, and mobility work this morning does have it feeling much better. Still stiff, but all the pain is gone He DID warn me...after the fact. To be fair, neither of us was thinking about last night's class.

So today is a rest day, though I will do multiple sessions of flexibility and mobility work but nothing else. I will likely complete my overall goal of secondary mobility work today and will likely add a couple hours to that goal.

More tomorrow when I get home I will, literally, be the last person to compete tomorrow. I have no competitors, so my focus will be to prove my rank by performing a minimum of 100 properly executed 8kg Long Cycles in 10 minutes. I've done this plenty of times in class, but THAT isn't the same environment. My coach will be working to hold me back so adrenalin doesn't cause me to start too hot out of the gate and burn out before I've reached my goal.

[Crankin]

Good luck, Catrin! I will be thinking about you today.

[Catrin]

Good luck, Catrin! I will be thinking about you today.

Thanks Crankin! I posted about it on the original thread I started for it, but it went well! Sadly all of the better shots I have are too large to upload here, no matter how much I resize any of them So the one on the other thread will have to do. The link to the other thread is here.

I feel pretty good, I did note some breathing issues and a few other things that didn't turn up during our trial 10-minute sets. In the end, however, we can't fully duplicate competition conditions in training, and I/my coach learned things to go and work on for the next time!

[Crankin]

It sounds like you had a really good day! I am sure you can work on the things that came up. When is the next competition? Great picture, too.
Went on a local snow shoe that was quite a work out. I really wanted to go x country skiing today, as another 2 day storm is starting tonight, but we had theatre and dinner last night in town, and I needed to sleep in. The place we went to snow shoe has a hill that used to be a small local ski area with a rope tow. We climbed the hill for the first time and then continued with more climbing in rather deep snow. It was only about 3.5 miles, but it took an hour and 20 minutes. The plan for tomorrow is to either get up early and do a quick ski at our local touring center, in the snow, or be brave and drive out to western MA in a storm, and ski there.