Life"s Full of Ups and Downs

Ugh, I got the crud, not full bore like the rest of the fam, just a little tickle, a little tease. So I opted not to get after it. Thanks to my sweet husband I was able to get 11 hours of sleep Saturday and felt a lot better. This week looked like this...

Monday:  Rest

Tuesday: 30 minute circuit

Wednesday: 30 minute circuit

Thursday: 6 miles 57:58

Friday: 30 minute circuit

Do you ever wonder what you look like when you are working out? Come on we all do. That's why I workout in my living room for the crazy stuff. Part of the Level 3 circuit training is these things called Rock Star jumps. I told Josh I feel like I go far but I am probably only 5 inches off the ground. So Friday I was doing them and yelled "Riley come take a picture of me doing these things." He laughed the whole time, but was saying "this is a good one Mom." The ones that cracked me up are the in between jump shots... So here is the results of Riley's photo shoot.

My face has some serious intent there.

Hahaha, my face looks like "Really, again?"

However, after seeing the photos,I think I can jump pretty high!

It was a fun week, Ethan went with me to take pictures of the hill I have dominated. I have a 4.25 mile loop that is my "go to" run. It is fun, it is clean, and it is hilly.

From my new runner's bible "Born to Run" I read a quote that applied to me, ie: the reason I shaved off 10 minutes in a year from the Missoula Half.

"Hills are speed work in disguise."

The thing with where we live we are surrounded by roads with hills, so if I want to run I have to run hills. Occasionally I think wouldn't it be nice to just have flat ground? I don't know maybe I wouldn't feel nearly as accomplished.

So here is the hill I have been trying to beat for 4 months, that means get up it without really thinking about it.

Not so bad, just .25 gradual hill...Now onward and upward to the next challenge. This bad boy may take me a while, Olivia was mapping it out with me, and she squealed "Wow we are still going up this and we are in the car!!!"

Ah, so this weeks goals are, reach 300 miles, up my circuit training and have one long run. Oh yeah and eat home made apple pie :) What are yours? How do you do it? How do you fit in health?
xoK