BTSBSS’s BodyBlog

Yesterday was an off day for soccer at my household. (unbelievable as it may seem)  It looks like during the fall season we will get Mondays and Wednesdays off between the two teams.  We may not have hit the field yesterday but we have started cardio training.  I started last night with both my son(11) and daughter (9) and ran two laps around the neighborhood (probably not quite 3/4 mile).  We then moved on to some wind sprints and suicides.  My daughter and I were the mosted winded during this 45 minute training session.  My legs were feeling it and so were my lungs but I enjoyed every minute of the pain because I was doing it with my kids and we were all out there because we wanted to be out there.  No one was making us do it.  We were pushing ourselves to get in better shape.  Doesn’t get any better than that or does it?  We will find out Wednesday night for training session #2.

Weekend started with me picking my son up from camp and then heading to my parent’s place at the beach on Friday afternoon.  Saturday I got up and participated in my first 5k eventhough it was a 5k walk. (gotta start somewhere right)  Finished overall in 6th or 7th place. (I got tired of waiting for them to post the unofficial results so I left before they were posted)  Hopefully next year I will be running the 5k or 10k.  Both my kids were excited to see me in the race and they want to do it next year as well.

Left the beach Saturday afternoon and came back home to get ready for my back to back soccer practices with my daughter’s and son’s soccer teams.  I ran my daughter’s practice Sunday afternoon from 2:30 - 4:00 and then slid over and helped run my son’s practice from 4:00-6:00.  Between laps around the soccer fields, windsprints, suicides and small scrimmages I definitely got in my cardio yesterday.  My legs were not to happy with me this morning when I got up. Hopefully this will help me be a little more consistent with my cardio training and help me reduce my bf and reach my goal.  With practices coming up Tuesday, Thursday and Friday I am sure my legs will be fussing at me again.

Well, tomorrow we head home from 10 days of family vacation.  I think I have been pretty good but I am sure the scales will tell a different story.  I have survived the State games with my son’s team taking silver and my daughter’s team getting blasted out of the water.  Now after a week at the beach I am looking forward to getting home where it will be easier to control my diet and also refocus on my weight training.  I continue to be amazed by the will power and control of the people who use this site.  Looking at the progress of you guys is inspirational to me to get back on the horse and go at it again.