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

Merry Christmas from the Pirate & Crew.  We're keeping it classy in NC!

4 miles with the neighbor and MR in the morning.  Watch was still on bike mode until around mile 2.  The last 2.24 miles were at an 8:57 avg pace.  Not sure what the first two were, but they were slower than the last 2.

I got to try out my new kettle balls.  One video was just learning the "moves" and another one was more of a workout.  I feel so whimpy when I have to put the 10 lb ball away and grab the 5 because 10 is too heavy to swing.  I need to make a goal to get stronger and pull that 15 lb ball out of the cobwebs.

2 hour nap (I love holidays), and then MR and I went and played 18 holes of frisbee golf.  I haven't played in 20 years, and I suck, but it was lots of fun and I amused myself with my bad throws for 2 hours.  This course is entirely in a forest, so every single hole was just a mess of trees in front of the goal.  I'm pretty good at hitting the trees :-)

Rain in the morning.  I did the p90x legs & back, and finally used the pull-up bar.  I HAD to use the chair to help get myself up, and I'm fairly certain that I won't be able to move my arms at all in 2 days, but it was a good work-out.

I did the ab ripper after and it put a hurtin' on me.  I haven't done it for a few weeks and all my stomach muscles have turned into flesh colored pumpkin pie.  Good times.

I worked on my summer vacation photo album book for a couple hours & watched Sense & Sensibility, then I took my merrells out for a quick short run because the sun came out :-)

Wore my new white shoes on the trails today with MR, so they're not new looking anymore.  Red dirt galore :-)

We did lots of hills today, which were hard for me, but dang it feels good to be a hill-ster.

Avg pace was 9:29.  I'm sore from my kettle-balls and p90x, but I find it's easier to move after I get going.  Sitting just makes it hurt more.

95 minutes on elliptical reading my books (which makes time fly).  legs are really sore from p90x legs & back (arms are sore too- I'm not sure how much of my back I actually use in that video).

After elliptical, I tried doing the ab ripper and it made me yelp out in pain.  I hadn't done it for a few weeks, and my abs were sore, sore, sore.  It hurt like a mother trying to do the exercises.  But I managed to finish the whole video AND I was making enough horrid noise that buccaneer #1 had to shut the door on me.  Win for the mamma pirate!!

After all that, I took a quick jog in the merrells.  I made it all the way around the loop!  My calves haven't bothered me at all from running in them the short distances I've been running.  I may try and up the distance next week.  Maybe.

Went on a run with DAR (neighbor next door).  MR & her hubby rode bikes while we ran.  It was a tough run for me because my legs felt tired from everything all week.  I had that feeling like I was a 3 toed sloth trying to escape the latin american chupacabra...I was just loping along.  We kept our AP under 9:30 and finished, so it was all good.

Went on a 4 mile walk with Wyatt later on in the day- she's been wicked sick the last month, one round of antibiotics after another.  Hope she'll be back & ready to run again soon.

PF is bothering my heel a little.  Probably from too much time in the merrells and not enough time in my arch support shoes. :-(  So we went for a bike ride.

MR and I rode out into the wind, and the wind blew like a hurricane (or it felt like it).  Our first 12 miles took us over an hour.  And we were really pedaling fast for one of them trying to lose a puppy that insisted on chasing us for the whole mile.  I was impressed at his speed and how long he kept running with us.  He was just having a good time out there running after & along us, but I was nervous because he'd try crossing the street in front of me and I knew we'd both lose that situation.

Happy New Year to everyone!