Weekly Rundown- Yoga, Turkey Trot and Pie
Well, it was quite a week. I love the week of Thanksgiving, and this year was extra special because my son was home after being away for three months at school. Workouts were… well, you’ll see! Thanks as always to Kim and Deborah for hosting the Weekly Rundown, and to San for hosting NaBloPoMo- we’re in the home stretch! Here’s how the week went. Monday While I was thrilled to have my son home, it did mean that I lost my “yoga studio.” Everyone else in my family was off the whole week, but I had to work on Monday. My husband was trying to luxuriate in bed, but sadly I had to kick him out so I could do yoga. Sorry, but I’m doing my November yoga challenge! After I got my husband out of the bedroom, I did a 45 minute yoga flow. Last week I did all power yoga classes, and ended up with a sore hip flexor. I didn’t want anything to go wrong for my turkey trot on Thursday, so I did all regular flows this week. All classes were on the Peloton app with Denis Morton as always! Tuesday Started the day with a three mile run! To be honest, Tuesday feels like a lifetime ago and I literally can’t remember anything about this run. I know I ran, and my phone tells me this was Tuesday, so… yeah. I look happy though! Followed this with a 20 minute yoga flow. The rest of this day was NUTS! It was our prep day for the prep day. In other words, I did a whole bunch of stuff that needed to be done before Wednesday. I made the cornbread for our stuffing, made the dough for four pie crusts, cleaned the kitchen, and rearranged the living room furniture. I had to make room for the Christmas tree! Oh yes, and in the middle of the day my son and I went to Starbucks to get festive drinks for everyone. Super fun day. Wednesday As soon as I woke up I did a 45 minute yoga flow. Then… so much to do! We did lots of cooking prep and got our Christmas tree! We didn’t decorate it- just set it up in the living room. So exciting. At night my son and I watched the first Harry Potter movie. We decided we’ll watch the rest of them when he’s home for Christmas. Thursday Thanksgiving! My husband and I were up super early for our Turkey Trot. It was around 64 degrees, which was perfect. Not so perfect if you were shooting for a PR, but perfect for just hanging out and having fun. I ran a mile to warm up, and then the 5k race. It was really fun and I’m so glad I did it. I did have a little pang when I saw people doing a serious warmup, and I missed that feeling. I missed speedwork and I even missed the nervousness of being at a race and hoping to run a PR. I really want to get back there, and I’m going to have a little talk with my doctor when I go for the next shockwave treatment on Tuesday. Meanwhile… I was thankful for being able to run at all. I know it could easily not have been the case, but I was there. The rest of the day was a whirlwind of cooking and eating. We finished our (large) dinner, went for a walk, and then ate pie. I cleaned the kitchen, threw in a load of laundry… notice anything missing? My yoga challenge! I hadn’t done yoga. I resigned myself to missing a day, but then thought… I could do a quick class. So I did a 15 minute hamstring focus flow. I’ll be honest. I don’t think I got much out of this class. I tried, but yoga doesn’t feel good with a stomach full of pie. Oh well! Friday Another confession. I was pretty cranky about the fact that I had to work on Friday. Everyone else in my family was lounging at home eating leftovers. Because I was feeling rebellious, I slept in until about thirty minutes before I had to go to work. And it felt good! As soon as I got home from work, we started decorating the Christmas tree. This isn’t simply a matter of taking out a box of ornaments and quickly hanging them- no, no, no! We decorate the whole house. We really wanted to do it this day because my son went back to school on Saturday. It also entailed getting all the fall stuff put away… it was a lot. Luckily we had a crap ton of leftovers, so no one had to cook, phew. I was well aware that I still needed to do yoga! It clearly wasn’t my main focus though, and I decided to just do the same 15 minute hamstring focus flow that I did the day before- I figured that class definitely needed a do-over. Yep, all I did this day was a 15 minute yoga class. What can I say… it’s the holidays. Saturday Boo hoo! My son left. So hard to say goodbye- does it ever get easier? I did a 30 minute yoga flow class and left for work (my husband drove my son to the airport.) My son was also sad to leave- we really had a nice week. But he said “the good thing is I really love school.” WELL! What more could I hope for? He can’t live at home forever, and if he’s happy, that’s the most important thing. After work my daughter went ice skating with friends which required a bunch of car pooling. And for the rest of the day and evening I vegged out on the couch, reading blogs and watching Holiday Baking Championship on Food Network. It was a mental mini-vacation. Sunday Okay, let’s get back to real life! Our temperatures dipped down into the 50s