not much - gerlinda

between the holidays and whatnot, it was all i could do last week to just get my booty out of bed for crossfit. Which is CRAZY! we had to do this thing last week that was almost like dancing like choreography:

• from a deep squat position, grasp a medicine ball using fingers as stabilizors only - b/c the momentum of exploding from the squat will actually lift the ball for you (in theory)
• continue upward exploding motion quickly and fluidly until you are on your toes with your shoulders shrugged up to your ears
• release the medicine ball
• drop down into a deep squat again FAST while flipping your hands palms up to receive the ball
• the above move is called "The Snatch"
• raise from the squat and bring the medicine ball to chest level (still holding it from the bottom, palms up)
• scissor your legs powerfully out while thrusting the medicine ball powerfully straight upward

there is a name for the second part of the move, but after about 100 false starts on this, b/c i am too uncoordinated to remember the "dance" and kept scissoring at the wrong moment and dropping the ball ... my legs were too wobbly and my brain was too fried to care or remember what the exercise was called...

i finishised last in the class on the speed time trial of these - mostly because i was getting remedial squatting instructions the whole time. in between sets of those, we also had to do jumping pullups and dips...

i woke up so sore the next day that i decided to bail on crossfit this week and just do some slow, easy runs instead... :)

i'm excited about the marathon because, this time come next week, it will be OVER. because of inconsistencies in my training this past month or so, i have no real idea what i can expect of myself in terms of race times, etc. i know it's going to be very difficult. i am prepared to break down in tears, if necessary. but i am as determined as ever to complete the race - even if it takes me the entire allotted 7 hours to do so.

like abby, i only have one appropriate pair of shorts... Our PanCAN shirts, which arrived in the mail last week, are white singlets with purple side panels. I get chaffed on my inner/upper arm when i wear sleeveless shirts, but i will remember to slather the seams and also my arm itself with body glide and hopefully i'll be ok! like abby, i'll be wearing my asics 2110's. i'm hoping the weather will be a little cloudy so that the sun isn't beating down on us... but, starting out at 7am should help with the heat. I predict Abby will be crossing the finish line around 11am!

when i was at disney to 5K last year, i walked down to the boardwalk saw the some of the marathoners. there was this one in particular who looked pretty out of shape - but she seemed strong and determined, and she was trotting along at a slow jog, while others around her were walking. it was then that i thought - if she can do this, then maybe i could too... flush from the victory of running my first 5K, i felt invincible. the rest is history: want it, check. go for it, check. do it - i'm checking that one off the list next weekend!