Back from vacationing in Florida and after just about a week off from working out except for a day of elliptical/Strength (nice 2 hour combo) and a day of Yin Yoga did nothing but sleep and eat. With Rock and Roll New Orleans now around the corner time to get back at it, am off the whole week so that should help.

 Since I am still on vacation, I did sleep in and after a nice cup of coffee got the workout done.

Today I started Cathe's  Ripped With HIIT/Xtrain Rotation, which of cause started off with Xtrain Hard Strikes I could feel every roll jingle during those jumping jacks then those dreaded situp/pushup combo just about killed me I was one whole set behind Cathe but got it done.




Then 25 mins of HIIT Spinning using Global Cycling Network program, love the music and structure of program, hard and short.



Finish it all of with a morning yoga from The Cexercise Trinity which I assume was going to be gentle but it wasn't, it was nice thou and I made it through the whole 15 mins, love the flow and sequencing.






At 5:45pm putting my big girl panties on since it was 37 degrees, windy and raining I met up with the BGR Motivation Monday group and did 5+ miles.

Tomorrow is another day, make it a great one.

Today was a great training day, at least now I am waking up before my alarm goes off even thou I am still not getting up and I think this may be the first time this year that I got to work before 9am, yeah me. :)

So what did I do today;

I mile warmup @ 4-4.2mph

+9 miles tempo run @ 6mph

+ the last 18 mins of Cathe Ripped with Hiit Lower Body Circuit, love the stretch in this.


Need to tighten up the eating, am sure the peppermint bark chocolate are not helping, weight is just holding but I do have to say body is getting tighter.


Still no concrete running plans for the weekend, yet to get a good long run in so hoping to do that this weekend if not oh well it won't be for lack of trying.


All set now for Little Rock

Wasn't sure how I was going to feel this morning, haven't push the body that hard in a while, woke up and dread moving any body parts but surprising when I eventually man up and move a body part I felt fine some tightness in my left calf but not pain.

Schedule called for 5 easy miles today, but I kind of miss the Hiit workout so missed things up a bit based on the fact that I read an article recently that hiit followed by steady state cardio was good for weight loss.

Ended up doing Cathe Hiit # including bonus abs #1 then finish off with an easy 3 mile run.

Love how my body is feeling, looks like after almost a year I may be getting back to 100%, the new Cathe workouts had really been a great supplement to my running, I love the mix of plyo, hiit, heavy weight, high reps..

Now to start planning the rest of the Paris trip, will like to make a great vacation out of it since this will be my first time there.

Weather is still wacky, we woke up to 57degrees but at 8pm tonight we are at 30 degrees and snowing, go figure. Woke up with limited DOMS, so was really happy that my body is improving, so moved on to the next workout on the schedule Xtrain Low Impact Hiit, I only had time for the floor workout before church.

Spend the rest of the day, running errands and getting some last minute stuff for James trip.

So this week is the start of week 10 of the Hanson plan

With no mouse drama today I was able to whip out the new Cathe and give them a whirl, okay I have to say I absolutely love the 2 I did, they were what I envision her doing, no unnecessary breaks, no endless reps, limited fancy moves, sweet, short and to the point, but I miss my Cede.

Started out with low impact hiit #1, she changed things up a bit by using the mat as a prob for the first half to get around which was a nice twist, had sweat pouring down and was breathless but not gasping for breathe, then skipping the warmup from hiit circuit upper body I tacked that on, love the cardio blast and I think my lower body was worked just as hard as the upper body. Love it.

To make things interesting, before doing the stretch to end the workout I added on a kettlebell/burpee ladder-8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 using a 24kg kettle bell this took 3:38 had to pause a couple of times to catch my breathe but this was a great finisher which came from a men's health email, ahh bliss.

I love this combo and felt great afterwards. Still feeling some tightness in my right hamstring, not really pain just seem like there are lots are scar tissue limiting my mobility, so I have been stretching and digging into it using a strect I found on youtube.

Books::
Bedside
 Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project(should have moved it to the bottom of the pile but started it instead, like it so far)
Stephanie Klein - Straight up and Dirty, dropping and donating to library book sale just not getting it, gave it a fair shake up to page 84.
Tom Ferry: Life by Design
John C Maxwell - Today Matters

Car (Audio-have to make good use of that 2hrs round trip daily commute to work)
Timothy Ferriss-The 4 Hour Body

Kindle:
Jumping around on that one, have to look to see what I started out with on Sunday..

I need a new ereader, love my kindle but this is a much older edition but can't really justify a new one unless for the fact that I can't read in the dark with turning on a light, but it is fun getting under the covers with my flashlight so as not to wake up my husband.

Amazing how 33degrees with no wind feel like a heat wave, 7ft of snow in Buffalo, NY sounds unreal. Suppose to warm up to the 50s by the weekend, hoping things thaw out, I really don't mind the cold as much as there is no snow and wind.

Not that much motivation this morning but got up and did Cathe All out low impact Hiit and Exhale Wk2 Day2.

I think all out low impact is one of my favorite Cathe short to the point, no overkill of reps and you know you worked.

I have tickets to Paris for the marathon on hold with American Airline, just need some more points to post to my account, so for 80,000 aa points my husband and I will fly round trip from Cleveland to London, take train to Paris and fly out of Paris back to Cleveland, was going to do business class but have to conserve points for possible Berlin marathon and the other races already on the schedule. 60,000 points was from getting  AA credit card. Now to start working on the hotels.