- My sparkly babies have arrived!!!!! The year of wanting and swooning has paid off. Now all thanks to my Dad haggling with customs, I'm currently getting high off the fresh odour of fantastic plastic!!
- I am embarking on a virtual Route 66 Trip for the next 7 weeks - courtesy of the Fitbug and my feet!! I am actually a week behind on completing the 620,000 step race to the finish line as I'm waiting for a replacement part for my Fitbug - yup I have worn it out! Fingers crossed it arrives soon. There is a league and I don't want to fall too far behind. Competitive? Moi?! ;-))
- So far I have TWO brilliant recruits for my 60 seconds 6 weeks Rings challenge woop-de-doop!! (I think the accent confused them into saying yes!!) Leah (as above) can currently stay in the rings for 11 seconds, one of my incredible Friday Leanfit comrades (who just cannot wait to tell her son that she is doing her first Crossfit Challenge and who like me cannot even hold the ring position yet) and I will be battling it out. Place your bets!!
- My brain is embarking on it's own daily workout programme to improve its speed, stamina and strength. I read some research this week that demonstrated that serial multi-taskers (ummm moi for like the last 6 years) are actually damaging and lowering their IQ MORE than frequent marijurana users - WHATTTTT? So whilst I try to train myself to do just one thing at a time, OK realisitically limit myself to doing max two things at a time and so limit any further loss of the remaining IQ I have, I have also decided that just as I start each day with a workout to get my body moving and grooving (warned you I'm high on 5finger plastic fumes ;-), so I will spend 30 minutes each morning attempting a crossword. Crosswords are the cerebral equivalent of the TRX - they don't look like much but they're tricky to master! Check out today's inaugural (disaster) attempt. N.B. This is me trying to cultivate a skill that I have never EVEN possessed back when I had a relatively good IQ and before my addiction for multi-tasking took over. Crosswords are my nemesis - I just don't get them - why not just use google?! It's fair to say my brain is struggling more a tad. (I even selected a book of easier crosswords to kick things off with!)
- I have nearly completed a personal crossfitting hat trick - all six sessions in a week (so long as I drag my bootie out of bed tomorrow)!!!!!! As a reward for this effort and persistence I'm losing chunks of skin from my hands - my pinky has no upper layer of skin left on it - so gross. Barwork - not the alcoholic kind - is completely to blame. Will be requesting urgent skin grafts ;-)).Yesterday we were attempting to get our toes to the bar from a hanging off the bar starting position - just using our abs. And to kick off we had to do 21 repeats then 15 then 9. Hmmmm perhaps we could start with two? SO IMPOSSIBLE yet I used to hang upside down off the monkey bars all the time as a kid so I must have been able to get my toes to the bar at some point. I just need to remember how. Plus is it just me or is crossfit really just rebranded rough and ready gymnastics so that it appeals more to men? I'm just irked as today I was feeling like a champ for completing 3 rounds of 800 meter runs, 30 back lifts (again on the instrument of torture) and 20 sit ups in 21.59 but then checking out the times for the other leanfitters, the typical times were around the 16 minute mark.
Oh. Just. Kill. Me. Now. TGI Fabulous Friday!! xx
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