Monday and Exercise

Three things that should not EVER go together are … cold, rain, and Monday! Seriously, they are all bad enough on their own! I hate them all individually, but combined, they are a brutal force that cannot be fought!

Today is one of those dreaded days, and it has been MISERABLE! I am freezing and cannot seem to get warm, despite numerous attempts! I want to snuggle up (in my leopard print Snuggie – yes, I have one, don’t judge me!) and take a long nap or at least watch something good on TV. The work day has been a Monday Workday, if you know what I mean! This is just a bad combo all the way around!!

Is there light at the end of the tunnel?! Why, yes, I believe there is…

Tonight I am going to my very first Zumba class. I’ve had a friend crush on this form of exercise for quite a while, but never had the opportunity to take a class or the ones that our gym offers are at wild and crazy times that I can’t do. I’m pretty excited about this!! Dance + Exercise … this has to at least be fun, right? Plus, there are some ladies signed up that I really can’t wait to watch!! Back row, here I come!!

If my plans work out like I’m hoping, I should be able to get in a little Couchto5k run before I have to be at the church for Zumba.

Speaking of…I guess now is a good time for a Couchto5k catch up/confession. I really love this program! I NEVER in a million years would have thought that I would have ever participated in a running program, much less liked doing it. Don’t get me wrong, there have been days that I dread getting on that treadmill; days that I tell myself the whole time that I can’t keep going; and days that I don’t think I can move up to the next level. I don’t LOVE love it, but I do, you know?!

After I wrote the first post about starting this program, I hit the ground running (pun intended!!). I was killing it. I rarely ever missed a day and was even going to the gym on my normal “off days” to make up if I did. I could really tell a difference in my stamina as well as in my physique. And then I went to Cancun. And then Thanksgiving came. And then Christmas. And then New Years. And well, you know the rest of the story. I was going hit or miss during those weeks (months), but I wasn’t back in my routine. I was missing way more than I was hitting. It seemed like every time I turned, there were too many things that kept me out of the gym. I hated it and hated the way I was feeling.

At the first of the year, after life calmed back down, I decided to jump back in. I was unsure about picking back up on Week 5 where I left off, so I decided to go back to the beginning and start fresh. The hardest part about going back to the beginning was the million and twelve reps that you have to do. It wasn’t hard to run those minute runs like the first go around, but it seemed like that work out went on and on forever!! At Week 5, since you run for longer periods, you don’t have to run as many. Guess there kind of are perks to all the weeks.

Although I’m just getting into it good (I didn’t actually start the first week in Jan since David was so sick and I couldn’t make it to the gym AGAIN), I have been able to stick to it on a regular basis since I started. I’m hoping that combining it with the Zumba will help and be fun all at the same time. Guess we’ll see at 6:30…sure hope I don’t break anything!! J