Day 37: Soggy Jogging and Beginning Flavored Yoga

My legs felt good this morning, better than they have in the last five days and a jog to test them out was in order. The main problem was the thunderstorms rolling in.  At 5 AM it was no longer raining although lightning jumped from cloud to cloud. I suited up and hit the pavement.  Over a mile later I was feeling good when the first few drops fell on me.  It was sprinkling and I could endure it so I kept going.

I picked up the pace as the drops were starting to get bigger and bigger.  Twenty two minutes in the sky cracked and it was like someone was throwing buckets of water on me.  I turned around and sprinted back to my house.  For a moment my mind told me to keep going, but then Cheap Matt pointed out that both my running shoes and my phone would get ruined in a torrential down pour like this.  Frugality won over exercise. 

It was not a problem because I had found my beginning yoga and planned on getting in a session in the afternoon.  Final count: 22 minutes of AM exercise.

I got home this afternoon and for the second time suited up. I started Beginning Yoga. 

RETRACTION: Yesterday I stated that I had never done yoga.  That isn’t quite true.  I have never exercised to one of my yoga videos; however, in 2009 I purchased a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit.  For a total of maybe three weeks off and on I committed time to my Wii Fit and along with the games there was a yoga routine. From “Warrior Pose” to “Rising Sun” to “Tree Pose” I tried to get fit and rack up a high score all while playing my Wii.  It didn’t work

Beginning Yoga had a lot of familiar poses in it.  “Cobra,” “Downward Dog,” “Morning Glory,” I knew almost all of them from my Wii. It seemed pretty simple some of the poses we were doing and there was the one person doing the modified or easy, versions.  Several of the latter I had to do,  for instance, the “Back Stretch” has you literally going head over heels and my chubby body can’t quite bend like that.

Much of the routine I felt like I was sailing through until I hit the half-way point.  My stomach muscles were feeling the “Power Core” stuff from the Pilates I did yesterday.  My yoga instructor had me doing some curl up back stretch that relied on your stomach muscles and it started to hurt.  By the end of the video we were doing a “Plank” to “Cobra” to “Downward Dog,” back to “Plank” and holding it to a point my arms started to shake. 

When it ended I realized I was sweeting and my arms and legs were fatigued.  Maybe there is more to this than I thought.  My back felt great as well from all the stretching.  Tomorrow I am going to try to jog in the morning if these storms will hold off, then Pilates in the afternoon. 

Daily Recap:

Matt:    Jog 22 minutes AM

           Yoga 30 minutes PM

Kelly:   Walked all over Greece and Climbed a serious hill.