Happy Monday! Let’s take care of business first: how adorable is my nephew in his Buzz Lightyear jammies?!
I sent him a set of Woody and Buzz pajamas for his birthday last month (which still needs proper attention in the form of a blog posting), and my sister sent me pics of him that I can’t stop giggling at. To infinity, and beyond!
It was a pretty awesome weekend. In our commitment to stay healthy and active, we were out of the house constantly! Saturday we went to a Samurai hash, which is like our Friday runs except just outside of Tokyo in Kanagawa. They usually involve scaling some some mountains and getting good and dirty. The run was 4 miles, and took us up some pretty steep hills.
Scaled up this beast of a hill. May not look steep, but my legs were killing me after!
Reward at the top? The view! Out in the distance you can see the nearby air force base
Did I mention the weather was alternating between pouring and a heavy drizzle? I was freezing after! All in good fun though!
Sunday I got my cross train on. I love running, but it does get repetitive, and a huge part of injury prevention is cross training. Together Dan and I went to our second hot yoga class. It was more challenging than the first one we did, which was good. After, I did a bunch of burpees and another ChaLean Extreme workout.
Remember my goals for May?
Run 75 miles
Cross train 12 hours
1,300 burpees
So far my progress…
So my progress is roughly 20 miles run, 3.5 hours cross training, and 125 burpees. I can catch up on running and cross training, especially as my endurance improves, but I’m struggling with the burpees, I didn’t expect my abs to take such a beating! I will probably fall short on that goal, but I’ll keep trying my best.
Hope you all have a happy, healthy week!
Burpees are a pain! I did some challenge about a year ago, you start with 1 burpee, the next day you do 2, the next day 3, etc all the way to 100. I got about to 25 before I gave up. 25 wasn’t necessarily hard, but the program allowed you to skip a day as long as you did those burpees the next time. Needless to say, when you skip 26, 27, and 28 you don’t really feel like pounding out 81 in a single day and you just say “eff it.”
Ha! Oh I have such awful form on these. Dan is constantly telling me to get my butt down! I can do about 15 in one go, then I slow down and need to rest. I’ve started randomly doing them throughout my day- hang some laundry, 10 burpees, feed Penny, 10 burpees, etc. I dread it, but it gets my heart pumping and I’ve had visible progress!
Oh my little cousin does the cutest buzz stuff in his costume. Anyways real purpose- what is that chart from?? I love pie charts! Lol must get something to do that for me!
It’s a fabulous app called Endomondo! I can’t get enough of it. You can install it on your phone and it GPS tracks your runs, and then when you hit the gym or go for a walk or do a dvd you can go to your account via the website and add it in. If you join, let me know! I’ll add you as a friend 🙂
Oh yay! It never emailed me that you responded to me. I only knew because of twitter! Haha going to look into it tomorrow! Phone is what im using now and its blinking that red battery light of death as i rush to read anx post to your blog haha.