Monique's farewell...

Well we had a blast on Friday night. Monique is a popular girl and it seemed half the City employees were there. We started at the Thirsty Parrot at 4:30pm. Then we headed over to Southside Johnny's at about 9:00pm because Martini Shot were playing. Everyone raves about them (including many hashers). They started off well with a rendition of Take On Me by AHA and I was the first one out on the dance floor, then they must have played some heavier stuff as I have stiff neck from head banging, but then they deteriorated into rap (I hate rap) and I soon got bored. Went home at about midnight pretty drunk from endless rum & cokes.

Sad Day

My very good friend Monique is leaving work today to go to live in New York. I will miss her. We are going out for leaving drinks tonight. I will probaly get drunk.

On another note, I have told a couple of people at work that I am probably moving to DC in the summer and now it is around the whole darn office. I should have know better.

Week 2: Progress Report

Miles Run: 12

Other workouts: power hour; cardio express; snowshoeing; muscles; turbokick

Weight loss: 1lb

Not a good running week as the race on Saturday was cancelled and Monday was a holiday so I missed my usual lunchtime run. The weather over the weekend was also not very conducive to running as it was sooooo cold. I made up for it with other indoor workouts, all of which are kick-ass.

Snowshoeing

We went snowshoeing yesterday and had a wonderful time. It was only 10f but it was sunny and no wind, so perfect conditons. I was recommended a 6 mile loop called Lovell Gulch up by Woodland Park and it exceeded expectations. A beautiful trail throught the trees coming out onto a ridge which had fantastic views of the back side of Pikes Peak. It was hard work but fun - 6 miles is tough going in snow shoe!!

A couple of photos below. I was wearing a lot of clothes to stay warm, hence the vague resemblance to a yeti!

Race Cancelled

Well my race tomorrow is cancelled. Apparently the race organisers and search & rescue couldn't even get to the pavilion to set up the staging area because of the snow & ice. i can't tell how disappointed I am!!!

Instead I will do my usual hour of power 9-10am, followed by cardio express 10-10:30am. I also have the option of a muscles class 8-9am and yoga 10:30-11:30am. Yoga is not my strong point as i am not very flexible (a good reason to be doing it, I hear you say!!).

I had a great work out a lunch doing turbo kick. It's a new class that has just started. It's like kickboxing/aerobics on speed. The instructor was impressed at how quickly I picked things up and asked me if I have ever been a dancer. If you knew me you would find that hilarious. I am not the most graceful/flexible of creatures although I do have pretty good rhythm, balance and co-ordination. I told her it was years of aerobics, step aerobics and, more recently, kick boxing. It was super fun and was warmer then running!!

We're going to the movies tonight to see "Perfume" - the story of a murderer. It stars Alan Rickman whom I adore. It's showing at our small downtown theatre which shows more artsy films. It's the only place I like going because you can get drinks at the bar and take them in with you! I also prefer to support the small local businesses when I can.

Progress Report

This is not a full week as I only started my new regime on Monday:

Miles run: 15 approx. (I haven't started timing them yet).

Other work outs: intervals class; muscles class and turbokick.

Weight loss: 3lbs.

I need to increase my running distance but that's difficult at the moment as the only time I really have to run is during my lunch hour. And with the bad weather we are having (yes, its snowing again today!!) it's hard to get motivated at the weekend as well. I am waiting to see if the first run of the Winter Series is going to be cancelled tomorrow.

I am happy with the weight loss, but putting it into perspective, it's only half of the 6 lbs I gained over the holidays!!

I am going to invest in a garmin forerunner so I have a more accurate record of my mileage and time.

Just found out that my usual gym is having the aerobics floor resurfaced next week (about time too!). That will effect my Monday night intervals class and next Saturdays hour of power/cardio express (was planning on doing a 5k then anyway).

Starting up on the basketball again next Wednesday. Can't wait for volleyball to start agian.

So I had a pretty kick ass muscles workout yestereday. Idecided to push myself harder then normal and use heavier weights. My arms were shaking by the end of the work out. The only thing Ii had problems with was squats, not because my legs were tired, but because my neck & shoulders are still sore from my skiing fall and having to have the heavy bar across my shoulders was painful.