{ramona williams}

{Beautiful Saturday Afternoon}

Today (Saturday) qualifies as one of those beautiful fall days. Marc  asked me if I wanted to go for an afternoon jog at a local track.   I agreed, thinking it was just a jog. :)

Here are a few photos from our afternoon jog (which also included running sprints).  Running sprints wasn't mentioned until we arrived at the track. 

OK, there aren't photos of me leaning forward, breathing heavy while trying to catch my breath after sprinting a few 100m.  LOL  My fastest split time? .22.  Not good, but not bad either. :)

 

 

 

{Work Out}

There are certain advantages and disadvantages when your spouse works in the health and fitness industry.

Advantages:

-Free memberships to health clubs/facilities (as a spouse)

-Free workout sessions

-Inside tips on how to eat and live healthy

Disadvantages:

-Can’t skip workout sessions

-Watches the number of ‘water breaks’ that you take

-Comes over to where you are and says ‘you’re not giving it your all – give me 5 more’

After a brief hiatus, I recently started working out again. The last few weeks were going good - Marc frequently asked me,

“How’s it going? Feeling any pain, yet?”

I usually responded, “No, not yet.”

That is, until last Thursday. I woke up with pain in my lower legs – pain like the pain I occasionally felt when I ran track in High School. The pain was from our cardio session -- shuttle runs, or what seemed like an advanced version of shuttle runs.

Aging is a funny thing – in your mind you feel like you can still do the things that you did when you were young, but your body responds, ‘And. . . NO. . .’ Marc and I both ran track in high school -- in my mind I start to think - even though it has been awhile, I'm still an athlete - I can do this. LOL. . .

Me, resting after a cardio session with the elliptical trainer.

Marc, meditating after his workout.

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here's a recent LO that I completed of us.