Boot Camp Day 2...

219.0 (oww. sore - i.e. water retention anyone?)

FRIDAY

Yes, so I have nothing else to talk about right now. Or maybe I do, but I can't seem to focus on anything but oww. My body hurts. I totally love it though and love that I've committed to it and that commitment doesn't require me deciding when to exercise in the day. I've had tons of "recommitments" to exercising and dieting, but this is the first one where I really have someone else looking over my shoulder. And I paid them a whole bunch to do the looking... So, I think I'll be able to stick with it. At least for the month, and hopefully more.

On that note I spoke to several people who are "vetrans" meaning this is not their first month. That they have such a good return rate bodes well for me.

Funny story happened this week. Yesterday at my first work out, something odd happened. Now remember it's 5-freakin-30 in the morning so it's still dark. Nevertheless as people arrived yesterday I glanced to see if I knew anyone in the class. It is in my home county and I worked there as a DA for 3 years and have lived there almost 4 now, so who knows. I didn't really think I'd see anyone, because most of the people I know are poker playing drinking buddies who would rather die than get up at 5:00 am to work out. Anyway, I didn't see anyone I knew.

So about 20 minutes into the workout they had us doing these stair-runs. There are two sets of stairs at the library near where we work out so we run up one, down the other, back up, down, etc. for at least 3 laps. The trainers are encouraging us the whole way and suggest that you pass on the left if you can. So I generally keep to the right unless there's someone super slow in front of me. So I was jogging along down the stairs, remember in the dark, and a very tall guy passes me on the left and says "Hey Cindy - how's it going?" I thought he might be one of the trainers, or just someone who read my name tag b/c everyone's real friendly in the class. So I said something like "ah - I'm alive". Then as he passed me I realized he was not one of the trainers, but just someone in the class. It seemed odd that he singled me out like that, and my name tag was not exactly easily visible in the dawn lighting. So I got to thinking this must be someone who knows me.

Well, thoughts of who this guy was quickly left my mind as there are some 30 people in the class and I was trying to focus on not busting my ass going down the stairs or on the multitude of other stressful activities during the work out. I didn't think about it again till later yesterday when I was telling Holly about the work out. She of course was massively curious about who this mystery boy was. So I agreed to try to figure it out today.

So it was about 20 minutes in this morning when I remembered to look for him.

*side note - you can tell I'm happily engaged because it kept slipping my mind to figure out who a good looking, tall young guy was. 3 years ago, I would have been all over that immediately. It's comforting to know that although I do still admire men, I'm really not at all "looking" for anyone but my fabulous fiance... :-)

So I found the guy during one of our calisthenics portions of the work out and kept glancing over to get a look at his face. Eventually it dawned on me that he was an officer at the sheriff's office in my county - where I used to be a DA. Not most recently, but when I first got the job I spent about 18 months in my county before being transferred to the county just south. So I probably haven't seen this guy in over 2 years. So of course I totally forgot his name. I kept trying to remember it as we did our running exercises and he was easily passing everyone and leading the pack. Finally, I decided that Holly would know once I described him and today at least I'd get over there and say hi, hopefully not needing to say his name in the conversation - oh and try to get a peek at his name tag.

During the cool down stretching I set myself up next to him and said hi- didn't recognize you yesterday. Then during our various stretches tried to peek at his name tag. In the dark. I determined I thought it said Jonathan, which didn't sound right, but I assumed Holly'd be able to help me out. I actually had some doubts about him being who I thought he was, and maybe I was making a fool of myself saying "I didn't recognize you yesterday." Then at the end of the work out I had a question to ask the trainer and he was standing there and the trainer said his name - Josh -. RIGHT! Josh. His name tag actually said Joshua, which in the dark I read as Jonathan. Oh well. now I know. It was cool, too because after we asked our questions of the trainer, he told me that he and a girl I know how's a prosecutor in the state court of my county were running a 5K tomorrow morning in our county. I told him I'd look into it and hope to see him there. I told Erik about it and am going to try to bully him into going. He needs the exercise too, right?

So - mystery solved. I remember Josh as a really nice guy and very good detective. I'll have to try to find time to chat with him about what's going on locally lately. Fun times, though. And now I have a friend in the class, which is also cool, despite the fact that it doesn't seem nearly as challenging to him as it is to me. Ah well - that's how we get better, right?

So today I did my PT test. I was actually pretty proud of my 1 mile run. I did it in 9:09. Not bad. Certainly not what I could do years ago, but good. The trainer timing me said - "you can definitely run" which was nice to hear, even if I know he can probably run a 5:30 mile. I told him that's about all I can do, and I need to work on the strength stuff. There were 2 other people who were doing the PT test with me and both of them finished in about 11:35 so I felt good about my 9:00 mile. Hopefully it'll be even better at the end of the month.

Now the rest of the PT test was a different story. Sit ups, push ups, and dips. Kicked my butt. Definitely a LOT of room for improvement there.

So, I get 2 days off of the morning routine, which is nice. I hope to get up and do the 5K tomorrow, but at least it won't be 5:00 am. Sunday - I'm sleepin in!

A few other things going on, but I'll save them for another post. Need to get SOME work done today.... :-)