Dog Training & Workouts...

I did not end up going to Yoga last night as I wasn’t feeling all that great and when one feels nauseous before one goes into a HOT Yoga session, one is just asking for extra trouble. So I baled. 

Instead, after dinner, I went for a walk with Katie around the neighborhood. From door to door it turned out to be exactly 2.0 miles but it took us 38 minutes. I kept stopping, walking backwards, going sideways, etc. I was throwing in a bit of heel training in there with our walk. One day I really would like to learn to rollerblade and I need her to keep a foot or so in front of me. But I need her to turn when I need her to turn so we need to keep practicing. She is such a good dog and will heel right spot on for Mr. Sandra – he doesn’t even use a leash – she is smack dab right against his left side not ahead of his feet.  But for me, we still need to work on it, he is stricter than I am by a long shot. She is very attentive but likes to walk ahead a bit – no pulling, just ahead. He doesn’t tolerate that and she knows it. When I got home, I did some stretching with her help. She just can’t leave me alone if I get down to the floor at all and while I was in the running stretch, she was winding under my leg, and around me. She isn’t a small dog and kept knocking me over. She so loves her mama…

And of course because I was out walking at 9:00 p.m. at night, when I got home and then tried to go to bed to actually sleep – I wasn’t tired. I need to get up at 4:00 so it is important that I’m asleep by at least 9:30 so that I can get about 6 hours of sleep to function. At 10:30 I turned out the lights. Unfortunately lately I haven’t been able to sleep throughout the entire night lately. I get my 4hours of solid deep sleep then like clockwork, I wake up and struggle going back to sleep. It doesn’t help that Mr. Sandra is a night owl and comes to bed around 2:00 a.m., and starts to snore – loudly. Makes it hard for me to get back to sleep. And then before I know it, that darn alarm goes off at 4:10 a.m.  after just falling back to sleep around 3:30. Anyway, this morning I got up at 4:20, downstairs by 4:30 and then  I ran the C25KW5D1. My friend is out of town for the week so I’m on my own and am running at home on the treadmill. I should just take Kate out and run the streets. If the weather was a bit nicer I think I would but right now it is a cool 1 degree Celsius at that time in the morning. My hip has been hurting lately during my sleep and this morning it  hurt a bit during the run. But not in its usual place (piriformus area) but rather right at the side/front of my hip flexors. That is one area where I am so tight it requires extra stretching. In Hot Yoga, a couple of the poses are very hard for me (backward bends) because I can’t stretch very far that way. But I have to let you know, my hip stretches have improved so much in the last 5 months – it is fantastic. My right side, when I sit with my left leg straight, and right leg bent – well before my knee would be sticking up in the air, now I can almost get it flat to the ground. That is HUGE for me.

Today I am also going to be walking a mile at lunch, then after work is my first strength training session at the gym without my PT. She is in Hawaii (lucky girl). I’m actually nervous about it. Not sure why. I go to the gym at about the busiest time of the day (4:30-6:00p.m) and it is filled with a bunch of muscle bound XXXXX – not sure how to accurately describe them. Some are normal guys/gals, some are pretty different. I’m not judging, just noticing J - to each their own. Anyway, I’ve got my workout pre-planned and today I’m supposed to do walking lunges with a kick back on the stand-up. I’m ok doing this with my trainer there guiding me, normally I would say  I don’t care what I look like, but I must a little because having to do it on my own in front of all these people, well I’ll be a little self conscious. I know once I’ve done it one time, I will be fine in the future.  Anyway, tonight will be interesting because I won’t have anyone to Yak at and will be plugged into the Ipod so I probably will work too hard, and kick my own butt. I’m looking forward to that part.

Well for someone who doesn’t have much to say – I think I’ve said enough for today.

I hope you all have a fantastic day!

Ttyl

Sandra

Pedometer: 7555

I got a little analytical this morning and between my treadmill miles and my pedometer kilometers, versus steps versus how many centimeters per step, I’ve got my step length as accurate as I can. I was a little short prior to today. In Mazatlan, I won’t have any idea how many miles I have walked because I probably won’t be bringing my garmin so I can look at the pedometer to see how far I walked. Mind you, I won’t be wearing it all day long because it’s kind of hard to hide that thing in a bathing suit J