With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

20 min elliptical while I waited for my sticky buns to cook in the oven.  I used cheesecake pudding mix instead of butterscotch.  Good stuff, Charlie Brown.

Went for a 2 mile walk in the pm.  I felt a little rock - tiny, tiny pebble under my big right toe.  After a few houses, I stopped to kick it out.  Later that night, my toe was still sore so I looked at it, and I've got a nickel sized blood blister on the bottom of my toe.  CRAP!

I chose not to run because the blood blister on my toe is really sore and I didn't want to push off funny on my foot and hurt myself trying to run this morning. 

I started the p90x today trying to get buff for the dirty hog on May 5th.  I won't finish the program by then, but I'm sure I'll get stronger.  If I can keep it up.

Day one is chest & back.  pushups and pull ups and chin ups.  My arms feel very wobbly 9 hours later.  I just know they will be sore tomorrow (and maybe even the rest of the week).  I know I've got to get over it to improve, but I am dreading the sore muscle pain.  I'm stretching and waving my arms around every chance I get. 

After the chest & back I did the ab ripper x (or I tried), it was sooo hard.  Was it because I didn't do it last week or is it because I was already ka-put?  probably both.  The cat usually hangs around my head trying to get pet while I'm doing ab ripper, but today I was making all kinds of horrid sounds and it kept kitty away.  Good to know :-)

I took two little red decongestant pills before going to bed last night, and I'm not sure exactly why but I was wired all night long and couldn't sleep.  I laid in bed from 9 till 1 am, and I was worrying that I wouldn't be able to wake up in time to finish the p90x plyo before 5:30 am.  

I finally got tired of worrying about it, and around 1:10 am, I got dressed and did the plyo.  I decided since I was wired and couldn't sleep anyway, I'd just get it out of the way.  I finished the plyo and finally got to sleep around 3 am- just to wake up at 5:30.  

Then I went with MR to the base where we did PT together.  We ran 4 miles.  It was a good speedy, hilly workout for me.  I was surprised that I had enough energy to finish it after 2.5 hours of sleep.  Those little red pills are magic! 

We grabbed some breakfast and went to the tax center where it took us 3 hours to have our taxes worked out.  I finally started feeling sleepy at the tax center, but managed to stay awake long enough to enjoy some fab Thai food for lunch.

Then I had a nap and went to the dentist.  What a way to spend a day off work.

My arms are sore, my chest muscles are sore, my back muscles are sore.  I'm not sure how I'm going to pull off the shoulders & arms video tomorrow, but I'll try.  Hopefully it won't be at 1 am :-)

I took some theraflu last night before bed.  Much better results than the little red pills- although something should be said for the great feeling of accomplishment one gets from finishing their p90x workout by 230 in the morning.

I had driving duty this morning, so I didn't get to run and do p90x.  I've got plans to run with Wyatt after work.

It was a workout just trying to drag my sore muscles out of bed to start the video, and I was truly hoping it was a short 30 minute video.  But it was not to be- I saw the 59 minutes on there and cried a little inside.  I knew I had to do ab ripper after and just wasn't sure how it was going to work since I was so, so sore.

I managed to finish the video, but I used light weights.  I have 2, 4, or 10 lbs.  10 is too heavy for me for almost all the exercises right now.  4 seemed too easy for some of them, but I used it and figured it was better than nothing and it would probably make me sore none-the-less.

Maybe I'll get some 6 & 8 lb weights to work my way up to the 10.  I feel like such a whimp using less than 10 pounds, but it's honestly all I can do right now.  I'm looking forward to seeing some improvements in that department.

After work, met Wyatt and attempted to run.  The first 1.5 miles were so slow.  My calves hurt like crazy.  We took a stretch break, and the next few miles were 100% better.  Still slow but not a painful torment.  We ran a little on a dirt road and found that someone had been flying a kite, and left the kite on the other end of the field with fishing line strung across the length of 3 fields and almost tripped us because it was strung across the road at knee length.   It was a nice 20 minute diversion.

Had to get up before 4 so I could start P90X yoga at 4.  It's 92 minutes long, and honestly, I was worried.

I liked that it had a lot of the stretches that we do in the stretch video because I needed to stretch out something fierce.  I'm glad the video is divided into 2 sections, because I was nearly KO'd after all those one legged leaning stretches.  There were some difficult things I hadn't anticipated, but all in all, I liked the video and have felt so much better sore-ness wise since I finished it.

I had zero energy after work.  It took all I had to get home, open some windows for a breeze, and lay down for a nap.  I am finding myself very, very tried at the end of the day lately.  I'm not running much, but these videos seem to wear me out even more than running does. 

I had to wake up at 3:30 this morning to get the legs & back & ab ripper done and have enough time to get ready before seminary.  I drove there today because I was supposed to be meeting someone for a VT meeting at McDonalds during the class.

She never showed up- so I got a nap in the car (thank you again RAD for the fuzzy blanket, that's twice in a week it's saved me!) and have no regrets.  I needed sleep.  I was sooo tired.

Good news is I have almost zero soreness.  Just a little bit left over in my calves.  If it's not raining, maybe I'll run a little tonight. 

--- no run.  45 minute elliptical reading the book "The Running Dream."  I'm about half way through and I'm liking the book.  Very easy reading.

Finally got some sleep.  p90x kenpo today.  I had fun imagining who it was I was punching in the face and kicking.  I can't believe I've finished day 6.  Rain all morning, maybe an afternoon run.  Certainly an afternoon nap.

Got in my nap and a run.  It was still drizzly, but not too bad.  Avg pace 9:36.  Last mile fastest, so a good run.