Ugh

I finally have two days off in a row, before I start my 7 day stretch, to say the least they are not going so well. The first of my days I spent doing boot camp and travelling around to different cities looking for a birthday gift for my mom and making supper. I also rolled some coins that I had sitting around and watched as the team I was cheering for lose the Stanley Cup. To say the least it was not the best day.

Today, I had the best intentions of getting a lot done, such as looking for a job, and cleaning up the house for my mom. But I am bound to the couch as I feel like a bag of dirt.

On the weekend I went out to a club and I guess I danced too much because my claves have been in so much pain that walking has become a chore. So beside rubbing so much A-535 on my legs and smelling like a pink peppermint, I cannot move. My legs are not the only thing that hurt, as I mentioned, I went to boot camp yesterday and not only did I run while my legs were burning like nothing I have ever felt before, we did around 100 push ups. We would run to one end of the field and then do 10 push ups and run back and do the same, we did this at least 6 times and then did at least 4 or more rounds of burppies. To say the least my arms and shoulders are in some other form of pain. Not only am I in physical pain, but my allergies are acting up and my head feels like it is under a lot of pressure and is ready to blow up at any moment. And to top it all off, Mother Nature decides to rear her ugly head today. Why did I even get out of bed this morning?

Lazy Feet

So one of my friends contacted me on Friday night and asked me if I wanted to do a boot-camp with her that starts on May 7th. I told her that I would. Now I consider myself pretty active, I go to the gym, I play hockey, and go for walks, among other things but I am starting to think that boot-camp is going to pretty damn well kill me.

I am not a runner, put some skates on me and I will skate till my legs fall off, but running, that’s a different story. I think I have lazy feet, yes that’s what I will call it; lazy feet. Now what are lazy feet you ask? Let me tell you. They are feet that do not want to lift off the ground. When you skate you can do so without actually taking your feet off the ice, gliding along in a swaying like motion across the ice, that is if you are not in any hurry. Don’t worry I do lift my feet off the ice, when I want to move fast, or get around the corner. When I go to the gym I use the elliptical’s and the stairs because well you see, you put your feet into the foot holders and you just move your legs. If I were to go on the treadmill I would be the annoying person whose feet drag along the tread every time I took a step forward. I tend to drag my feet when I walk, you would think that my shoes had 50 pound weights in them the way that I stomp around or rather drag them around. Now how does this relate to boot-camp you ask? Well like I said earlier I am not a runner, and I have a feeling that the boot-camp is going to be a lot of running.

In October my friend convinced me that taking a boxing class would be enjoyable. Ha. It was a LOT of running, I mean so much running I thought I was going to pass out and hurl. It was go, go, go for an hour an a half. Surprisingly at the end of the 90 minutes I was not a puddle of sweat on the floor and I actually felt pretty good. I could not last for more than one month of this boxing, it was fun…when we got to the punching part, and I am glad that I did it but not for more than a month. So I am thinking that if this boot-camp is anything like boxing I might be in for a rough 2 months. It is going to be 3 days a week, one hour a day, for 8 weeks. At the end of June, I know that I am going to be thanking myself for my enduring this challenge, and transforming my body into something better. Hopefully my lazy feet get cured over the next 8 weeks.