Last workout of 2010...

New Year's Eve and we're heading to the gym with focus, determination and renewed zeal. Yesterday we made a mid-week trek to the north to get some training tips on the Concept 2 and then submitted to a brutal but oh-so-fabulous circuit that left us half-dead. It was one of those experiences where you look back and think, wow, that was SO worth the trip! And what a way to end the year - never did we think we'd be this far along in our dragon boat goals so soon...and sometimes we truly have to pinch ourselves. Happy New Year - may it bring  all much peace, prosperity, health and happiness.

Week 11 on tap

First day back at the gym yesterday and it felt like we'd been gone forever! (The way my body feels this morning just cements that notion even further.) We, completely coincidentally, wore matching shirts and black bottoms... which prompted several curious glances and comments. "Are you two on a weightlifting team?" was my favorite. Hee. So we took a moment (within our 90" of rest of course) to talk about this dragon boat adventure we're on :) Dorky as it may seem, we might plan matching outfits again sometime :)

There is a downside to all this exercise...

... just one teensy little one. My arms no longer fit into any of my shirts!! If I liked shopping that wouldn't be such a problem, but I don't. And then there's the issue of this gorgeous leather jacket i treated myself to last year... I can get it on but I sure as heck can't move in the thing. Sigh.

Skip a week and jump to 8

Not sure what happened.. but time flew by and we are now midway thru week 8! Or maybe we were just numb from the pain and it took all our energy just to function semi-normally! Which might explain why our first set at the gym today seemed crazy long. I would say it was on my 8th rep of the lat pull down that i realized I had managed to combine two different programs into one monster one. Oops! But hey, what's a little extra pain when you're going for a gold medal on a world stage? Pish!