Saturday, January 21, 2012

Flaking out

It's official: Winter has arrived.


After flirting with us, with its chilly temperatures and dusting of snow, Old Man Winter dropped 4 or so inches of snow on Fort Wayne.


It was quite a beautiful sight ... until I realized that the snow could very much bury my plans.


L and I were all set to go for our weekly Body Pump class, with a side of Zumba because we're crazy like that, but I wasn't so sure about the gym. I had seen cancellation after cancellation scroll across the bottom of the TV the night before and it would be just my luck that my baby-free workout would be snowed out.

"What are you going to do?" Mark asked as I fretted about the living room.

I ran through my options - go to the grocery and hope for a run later, lie on the couch or pull one of my exercise DVDs and head down to the basement.

Let's see ... You know as much as I LOVE the grocery, I figured that I could at least do something for a half  hour. Before I had to convince myself that yes, I could do Bob Harper's "Total Body Transformation" for the second time this week (it kicks my butt every time), I realized that nothing was canceled this morning.

Body Pump and Zumba it would be after all.

The classes were a bit smaller than usual, no doubt because the neighborhood roads were still yucky, but they were fun nonetheless. Lunge track killed me, I remembered not to go crazy on the weights during biceps and I managed to do one real push-up.

Oh, I even think I had the hang of Zumba ... for about 5 minutes.

How is your weekend shaping up?

5 comments:

  1. I saw the article about you on Yahoo. I'm very inspired by you...in fact, after seeing it and reading your blog, I started my own Blogspot blog! I need to lose about 60 lbs and I'm a LOT older than you are, so it's even harder for me...thanks for the boost in motivation!

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  2. I haven't gotten any exercise in this weekend. I have been pretty productive around the house though.. lots of cleaning and organizing! And celebrating, Hubby's birthday is tomorrow so thats been fun.

    I have 6-8 miles planned tomorrow - praying I can find a trail or sidewalks that have been plowed because I don't have the necessary supplies for a run in the snow yet!

    I am excited for you and the recognition you are getting for your weight loss, its definitely an inspiration!

    http://running4mylife.net

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  3. Yep, winter is here. The snow is pretty but it's definitely messing with my running plans! Glad you were able to do some indoor workouts- thats pretty much going to be my solution on many of these blisters winter days.

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  4. How did I miss this post? Shameful follower - wet noodle beating headed my way. BP & Zumba - heck yeah girl!!! It's our Saturday th-ang!

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  5. zumba is great to do, i go to a weekly night class definatly get a workout.

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