River Dance

A little bit more stress was added to our plates this week. Dave's Grandma was diagnosed with colon cancer. Surgery was performed today. The surgeon removed a mass the size of his fist. He is confident he got everything. After test results come back from pathology, we will know what the next step is. In the mean time, she will be in the hospital for another week.

I have continued to work out every day this week. Toward the end of the day I find myself ready to go to the gym. Yesterday, a winter storm reared it's ugly, white head on KC. A mix of sleet and rain through most of the day and then it turned to snow. I mean a lot of snow! i drove to the gym for my 6:30 meeting with Mike. As I was driving I thought, "Probably not my best plan." Needless to say the gym was pretty empty. Gave me plenty of room to start out with those sprints and pushups. 150pushups to start. More were incorporated throughout the workout. Along with some pull ups. Isn't that interesting considering we were working legs? Things that make you go hmmmm....

Now the drive home should have burned a ton more calories...I couldn't see where I was going it was snowing so hard. To be quite honest, I was a little scared. I realized how people get lost in the snow. There was not a travelled path on the highway. I couldn't even see the highway.

Tonight our workout started with me running a mile. Not a flat mile either. Trainer decided to increase the incline. That SUX!!!! Let me share with you a snippet of conversation that occurred during tonight's arm and shoulder workout...

(Me lying on the bench with weights raised above my head and bending them at a 90 degree angle over my face)
Mike: Faster (as he snaps his fingers)
Me: I'm trying
Mike: Lower
Me: It burns
Mike: What's that face you're making?

LOL!!! I do make some crazy faces. I am TERRIFIED of hurting my shoulder again. I woke up this morning and it was sore. I was worried that because of our workout last night the pain was starting again. Mike assures me I need to work through it.

Mike told me that he and my husband have been talking and they have big things planned for me this year. (This conversation occurred last night.) So I've had all day to think things like, "What are the two of them dreaming up?" Tonight I asked for clarification. Let's just say I think I'm going to be working harder than ever in preparation of the big 40. That's good though. I want to be pushed. I feel like Mike was really pushing me tonight. Especially when he ended my workout by making me run sprints with 150 pushups. And when I was ready to quit he gave me the half glass full speech. For those of you who don't know my husband, he is an eternal optimist. He is always a glass half full kind of guy. This works out very nicely most of the time. As long as he realizes sometimes I need reassurance and gentle nugding to get to the half full. I am half full most of the time. I do have my moments of feeling overwhelmed and stressed. Anyway, tonight when I was struggling with the thought of running sprints (5 sprints, 50 pushups, 4 sprints, 40 pushups, 3 sprints, 30 pushups, 2 sprints, 20 pushups, 1 sprint, 10 pushups)Mike said, "You need to have more of your husband's attitude." I must have given a perplexed look. He said, "You know, glass half full. Right now you're the glass half empty." To which I replied, "My husband isn't in here running sprints right now." And off I went...my legs were stiff and it was a bit painful, but I did it. On about the third sprint, at the end. Mike thought it was my attempt at River Dancing. It was totally not what I meant to do. I LOVE River Dancing, but I am not coordinated enough to even try it. I've seen River Dance at the theater before, but I think my most favorite River Dancing EVER was what Kate Winslet and Leonardo DeCaprio did in one of my most FAVORITE movies ever...TITANIC!!! ;)

And with that friends, I've had my protein drink, my dinner, and my shower...and I'm now headed for my after workout sleep which is usually the best sleep!