In the Eye of the Storm!

All my friends…my workouts are going fantastic!! Yesterday I did my WOD after finding myself needing to channel anger and hurt…but it turned it into a very powerful workout! Its amazing how heartbreak can give you power you didnt know you had!

I have been biking everyday to and from work…this last two days has been sooo windy that at times I have been leaning hard to keep my bike upright…or pedaling into the wind at on the lowest gear possible like I was climbing a mountain! lmao Damn the prairie winds can be strong! I think they were in excess of 70kms an hour yesterday!

GJ..you will love this…there has been a hawk that has soared high above me on each of my morning rides up to work!! So beautiful and peaceful…and a little distracting..damn ADD….lol But fortunatly no parked vehicles …so I could enjoy his majestic presence both mornings!!

My weight is down 6lbs since last sunday!! THANK YOU KVNJames for the right combo of numbers and food!!

Now…the workouts….

Yesterdays WOD was:

30 squat clean and Jerks which I did at 105lbs!!! Again…its amazing what you can do when your channeling energy threw your body and letting it give you great strength!! I didnt realize this was supposed to be timed….so I dont have a time for ya’ll. But I only took a few breaks…and mostly at the end as my arms were shaking like leaves in the trees!! lol

Todays WOD was even more BRUTAL…but bring it on!! I am still full of so many emotions and workouts help to funnel the incredible swamping of feelings flooding threw my spirit! My brain needs a rest….so putting my body threw such intense workouts allows me to not think of anything but the muscles…anything but the moment…my heart gets a rest even if only temporarily…

So today for time:

100 Pullups ~ ya’ll know I cant do these yet…lmao So I did jumping pull ups and some negatives…but I did all 100~ one day I WILL be able to pull my italian bootie up without help or a jump!

100 pushups…HOLY crap…my tri’s are burning right now even as I type

100 situps…full and hardcore…pleease dont make me laugh tomorrow!

100 squats…oh my burning quads!

I still feel like I might puke! lmao It didnt happen…but ohhhh I think it was close a few times! I did this in 22 minutes!! And now my body wants a hot bubble bath with some sea salts!!

Pixie…my heart is going out to you girl!!

GJ…STAY FOCUSED…its almost over!! Well at least until the next time!!

Jill…I need to get to your page and see how your doing my friend!!

Brandon…you are the most wonderful friend! Thank you so much for designing my tattoo!! Your art work is so inspiring and beautiful!!

Keep goin hard girls!! Laurie…girl…thank you for helping me stay motivated!! Knowing that I inspire you is also helping to keep me going!! You just ROCK girl!!

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I totally should have blogged this yesterday, sorry i’m a bit behind in my blogs again!

The saturday crossfit WOD included 3 seperate workouts to be spaced 4 hours apart!! I knew this going to bed on friday night but I didnt get to sleep very early due to a wild thunder storm and immanent tornado touch downs in the area!

The storms were awesome!! There is nothing I love more than a good thunder and lightening show! NOT so fond of the tornado threat…but I still sat in my jammies in the doorway watching!! A few times I hopped to my feet quickly and was ready to dash to the basement where I was making my kids and 4 neighbor kids stay! lol But for the most part it was just a fantastic storm!!

I didnt start my workout until 1pm! But the first round was:

3 rounds for time of

21-15-9 reps

65lb thursters

pull-ups (i did my first ever really lousy unassisted pull up then did the rest as jumping pullups)

Went home and crashed for 2 hours on the couch! I was wiped out!! lol

Went back for round two of:

5 rounds for time:

5 reps Deadlift 100lbs (I should have gone to 135)

10 Burpees with a clap at the top!

The time of my first workout was 7minutes 20 seconds and I did the second one in just under 9 minutes!!

I didnt make it out for the 3rd workout. Got distracted on the cpu with something that I felt was more important. Todays WOD looks awesome and I cant wait to get home and try it!!

The extra bike riding two and from the gym along with the workouts and diet plan have helped me to drop 5lbs this week!! I’m SO stoked!! Everything is starting to look tighter too and me boootay is finally getting that roundness at the top (it was always on the bottom…but I wanted the WHOLE damn thing lookin like a smaller version of JLo’s bootie)

GJ…YOU CAN DO THIS WEEK GIRL!!! I’m cheerin from Canada!! And Laurie and Jill…keep hittin it hard girls!!

Big smiles to everyone!!

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Let the rhythm move you…

Hmmm…its an oldy but goody workout song!!

I’m DEAD! I just came back from today’s Crossfit WOD and I did all 5 rounds in just shy of 15 minutes!! WHOOOTWHOOOT!! Tomorrow is soooo going to have to be a rest day with only a morning run at the track!

Biked to and from work again!! My quads were burning, but it still felt great! And I think my seat bones are finally getting used to a bike seat again! Diet has  been bang on numbers and clean clean since sunday!! I have to order some more protein powder soon….but being transformation of the week gave me a credit (thank you BB.COM!! You guys ROCK!!)

O.k. so the workout:

5 rounds for time:

15 reps Deadlifts - 60lbs

12 reps Hang Power Cleans - 60lbs

9 reps Front Squats - 60lbs

6 reps Push Jerk - 60lbs

I wanted to try 75lbs…but my arms were still a bit tired from last night and because you have to do 5 rounds of this without stopping (I stopped for a few sips of h20) I needed to choose a weight that I could make it to the end with!

I absolutely am loving these workouts!! And that I can finally do 5 rounds of this stuff instead of dieing at 3 rounds! (although I think Doc would have made me redu a few of my reps tonight for not doing them perrrrrfect…but he wasnt here! lmao BUT…I did work hard to make sure my form was dead on…thanks Doc!)

Now its time to hit a long, hot bubble bath…

Keep goin hard everyone!!

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OMG…just came back from the gym after doing tuesdays WOD and can barely lift my arms already! lol. Thank god my keyboard is lower than my shoulders!

I’m gonna back track a bit here. I’m now 13 weeks away from ‘Peak Week’ and have to drop 30lbs. 15 of the lbs I have regained since last comp….and 10-15 that I should have lost to really be where I needed to be!! We did know I was going into that show a little heavy…but this time I want to be BANG ON where I want to be!!

So with that said, I’m in high gear now!! Biking to and from work is taking me 22-24minutes one direction!! YAY! And I will be starting AM cardio tomorrow…before first fed! lol

I’m thinking I will bike down to the park (6 blocks away) and run the track for 1/2 an hour each am right after my new found kitty wakes me up to go out! lol

We have this adorable orange male short haired cat that has totally adopted us! I’ve named him Oscar and the kids and I are really enjoying his presence. I am thinking he is a ‘drop off’ cat…because he has no id, no ear tatt and he still has his balls! lmao (more than I can say for half the stray men I know…roflmao…ooooo my bad eh!)

Anyway, Oscar has decided he should be allowed out at 5am! Little rascal! SO that is fantastic if I can get my bootie in bed by 10…I’ll just get up with him! He was gone 3 hours this morning and my son was devastated that he wouldnt come back…but just as my daughter was consoling Gman and saying ‘he will…he adopted us’ Oscar jumped back threw the window I leave open for him!! Phew…silly kitty…he is totally growing on us!

O.k. so enough of that rambling!

The workout of the day was for max weight. It looked like this:

Shoulder press 1-1-1-1-1 reps (I did 55, 65, 65, 75, 65)

Push Press 3-3-3-3-3 reps (I started with the 65-75-75-85-75)

Push Jerk 5-5-5-5-5 reps (HOLY my shoulders were burning…but I did 65-and then the rest at 75lbs!)

I havent done a shoulder press at all in months so I was very happy with my weights for now! And HOLY wont be able to lift my arms above my head to shampoo me hair tomorrow (this is where a man would be GREAT! lol)

W2G Jill and Laurie! You too girls are rockin it out!! PIXXXXIII when you gonna try it again girl?? JJanet…I know you can do this!!

I’m wiped out!! Hope everyone had a fantastical day!!!

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Hey all my hardcore friends!! First of all…hats off to bull.dogz who braved a crossfit style workout today!! WHOOOHOOOO!! YOU GO GIRL!!! Waiting to hear from Jill on how she did!! And Pixi…do you hate me yet?? lol

You all motivate me SO much to keep pushing harder!! Today was a beautiful and awesome day! I had the day off from work (last day off for the next 17 days straight! Yikes eh!) Diet has been BANG on for 2 days now!! And workouts are really going great!!

This morning my son and I walked the 10 blocks to the downtown of our little teeny city. And did some banking, then I went and got the door pass for the gym I’m going to use until I move!! They have ONE kettlebell…lmao And its 35lbs…yikes…so i’m going to try to order some for when I do workouts in the park.

After an hour of walking around my son and I went swimming at the pool! My hats off to Frogprincess….I havent gone swimming in forever and that is one hell of a workout!! My little man can swim the length of the pool…under water without coming up for air!! He is a frogman!! lol

I biked down to the gym for my workout of the day (WOD) and did…for time:

45 double unders

45 - 55lb Squat Cleans (TOTALLY scratched the top of my knee off on one BAD rep)

45 Dips

45 double unders

For a time of 12 minutes 55 seconds!!

Then I did two rounds of:

15 GHD situps

15 Hanging knee raises

30 second plank holds!

Then I biked the 10 minutes home!!

I’m loving the energy that I’m finally having and I think i’ve come completely out of my funk!! Btw…you all should check out litlebit…….she is SUCH an incredible inspiration and a beautiful woman inside and out!! Her words of wisdom to me a week ago were exactly what I needed after 2 really hard and down months!!

Of course…all of your support was WONDERFUL too!! BIG CYBER HUGS everyone!!

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Hey all the beautiful Peoples from Bodyspace who read my blogs!!

Yesterday after talking to my trainer (KVNJames) and after some encouragment from Ambrosia (that girl is SO awesome!!) I have decided to train with the goal of doing the Alamo Showdown!! To me this signifies two things…..one I’ve set another date to keep me challenging myself and i’m one of those people who REALLY has to be training for something to keep motivated! (Hey…I lost those 100lbs 7 years ago and have kept it off by having goals that keep me motivated!!)

Two it signifies my belief that all the things in the universe that need to come together so that I can BE in Texas by October 4th happen!! Simply put ‘I BELIEVE!’

Today was my first day back to clean and 5 meals a day….no food in between!! I found myself hungry…or at least feeling ‘nibbly’ a few times. GUM is to be my best friend for the next 15 weeks again!!

I have started biking to work and have made the commitment to do so everyday that is nice!! I am not totally sure on how many km’s it is….but it took me 23 minutes to get there! And 28 against a BAD headwind to get home tonight! But I absolutely loved it and feel amazing!!

At 7pm I again biked…and went to the park for my workout!! I did 2 - 400metre runs and in between each run did handstands and handstand pushups!! I actually pulled a glute muscle a bit on a handstand (going up…lol) and had to stretch the heck out of it to get that ‘charlie horse’ feeling out of me arse! lmao

Tomorrow my bootie will be mixing up the gym workout and the outdoor workout as I want to try saturdays WOD on the crossfit sight!! But I also want to get in a good bike ride as well!!

PIXIE…i’m so TOTALLY impressed that you did the last workout!! YOU ROCK GIRL!!

If anyone wants the more modified versions that I use to train my intermediate level clients with…I have no problem sharing them!! But I do need the request and the email addy!!

Well everyone! I’m off to read other blogs!! lol And to rest and relax!! Tomorrow I have the day off…so I will be hitting the gym hard!! And praying for news from my local politician about where my settlement from my ex is at!!

Lots of warm fuzzies to all of you!!

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Hey all the beautiful Peoples from Bodyspace who read my blogs!!

Yesterday after talking to my trainer (KVNJames) and after some encouragment from Ambrosia (that girl is SO awesome!!) I have decided to train with the goal of doing the Alamo Showdown!! To me this signifies two things…..one I’ve set another date to keep me challenging myself and i’m one of those people who REALLY has to be training for something to keep motivated! (Hey…I lost those 100lbs 7 years ago and have kept it off by having goals that keep me motivated!!)

Two it signifies my belief that all the things in the universe that need to come together so that I can BE in Texas by October 4th happen!! Simply put ‘I BELIEVE!’

Today was my first day back to clean and 5 meals a day….no food in between!! I found myself hungry…or at least feeling ‘nibbly’ a few times. GUM is to be my best friend for the next 15 weeks again!!

I have started biking to work and have made the commitment to do so everyday that is nice!! I am not totally sure on how many km’s it is….but it took me 23 minutes to get there! And 28 against a BAD headwind to get home tonight! But I absolutely loved it and feel amazing!!

At 7pm I again biked…and went to the park for my workout!! I did 2 - 400metre runs and in between each run did handstands and handstand pushups!! I actually pulled a glute muscle a bit on a handstand (going up…lol) and had to stretch the heck out of it to get that ‘charlie horse’ feeling out of me arse! lmao

Tomorrow my bootie will be mixing up the gym workout and the outdoor workout as I want to try saturdays WOD on the crossfit sight!! But I also want to get in a good bike ride as well!!

PIXIE…i’m so TOTALLY impressed that you did the last workout!! YOU ROCK GIRL!!

If anyone wants the more modified versions that I use to train my intermediate level clients with…I have no problem sharing them!! But I do need the request and the email addy!!

Well everyone! I’m off to read other blogs!! lol And to rest and relax!! Tomorrow I have the day off…so I will be hitting the gym hard!! And praying for news from my local politician about where my settlement from my ex is at!!

Lots of warm fuzzies to all of you!!

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Hey Girls!!

First …I heart all of you!! Jill reading your comment made my day!! I will get back at it and get blogging again!! I dont want to let you down!! That was maybe the push I needed!!

GJ…the horses just watched me today!! They didnt run…but they are sooo pretty. If they come over to the fence i’m going to interrupt the bike ride and go do ‘nosies’ with them!! lol OHHH and there were cows and baby cows (no worries…i have actually been on cattle drives and have help vaccinate calves and even have eaten prairie oysters…i know they are not called ‘baby cows’ but omg…they are soooo cute…so I made it a cute thing today!lol) AND…the sweetest little bird followed me fence post to fence post for about 10!! lol

PIXI!!! I’m just sending you all kinds of smiles and cyber hugs my friend!! I wish you lived closer…there is a PowWow coming up soon in a town 3 hours from here…I think if you would love it!! And the energy is amazing at pow wows!!

O.k. enough …I just wanted to shout out to my beautiful friends!! OHHH and Maddi…keep ROCKIN!!

My workout!!

I did Crossfits WOD from Wednesday  (hmmm…my add might be getting me here and I can see Doc shaking his head and going…that was last wednesdays…roflmao)

ANYWHOOOO

For time:

50 situps - full situps…not crunches

50 box jumps (this was a sub for dble unders - I couldnt find my skip rope)

50 situps

50 walking lunges

50 situps

50 burpees (this is when the H2O came back on me!)

5o Situps

I did it in 9 minutes!! I need to buy a stop watch soon so I can get my exact times!!

And then I hit my bike after hydrating a bit. And did my 5 miles on the windy pavement and the dirt road with the cows, horses and birdies!! I watched closely for that truck today!

HEY…where is Ninjabill….NIIIINNNJAAAA i’m not writing the ‘girlie’ blogs right now….you can come back……lmao

And NIC…my friend on the other side of the world…I want a blog from you soon!!! I miss your blogs!!!

Big Squishy Cyber hugs everyone!!

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I just got home from an AWESOME crossfit workout in the park!! My son joined me and we biked down to the park together….he had a TERRIBLE time keeping up to me….and I was going slow! lol Yes my legs are longer…but I think this is the result of legs that can press 835lbs! lol My daughter tried rollerblading with me two days ago…and I had to go slow for her and she had a hard time keeping up at my ’slow’ pace!

Before you go..’but they are kids’…my daughter recieved 5 athletic awards at school and can definatly keep up with me doing crossfit workouts!! She can kick out handstand pushups like they are the easiest thing in the world! AND…she is already 5′7" tall…her legs are longer than mine!

My son is also very athletic and strong as nails! lol. But short legs still…whattaya gonna do…he is only 12! lol

ANYWAY….I did 4 rounds of 400m sprints and 50 air squats in a time of 16 minutes. The coach wanted me to push under 10….but this was my first hardcore workout in over two weeks (yesss…i’ve been ahhem…in off season…roflmao - that was for you NINJABILL!)

Then I hit the road for a 5 mile bikeride which I did also in 16 minutes!! Hit gravel which was AWESOME!! And almost ran into the back of a truck while I was watching 3 beautiful horses running the fence along with me as I biked!! WHAT an incredible ride!!

I think its official…STORM IS BACK IN DA HOUSE!! LOL

Big smiles and cyber hugs to all of you who have been SO supportive and wonderful!! This last two months has been really hard…and you guys have kept me smiling!!! I cyber love you all!!

In the Eye of the Storm!!

‘Staring at the blank page before you

open up the dirty windows

let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot by

reaching for something in the distance

so close you can almost taste it

release your inhibitions…..

Feel the Rain on your skin!

No one else can feel it for you

only you can let it in

no one else, no one else can read the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

live your life with arms wide open

today is where your book begins

the rest is still unwritten.’        *Natasha Bedingfield*

WOW if I could write words like this I would definatly BE a rockstar! lol

I love this song! I love how ‘in the moment’ it is! How in the now and in the today it is!!

The past is just that…its history…its past…its done and cant be relived. The future is unwritten!! It is our dreams and our hopes and desires that drive what the future will bring and be!

But it is in the TODAY…in the NOW that the future even gets written!! Yesssss i’m being all philisophical…I should have warned all my beautiful hard core workout friends that the summer and the sun always brings on this incredible ’sun energy philosophy’ that I cant really explain! But this has been my experience for the past 3 summer…laying in my hammock with incredibly inspiring words at my finger tips!!

This summer has been a little different, the rain clouds have gotten in the way a bit (sigh) and life has brought some metaphorical rain with it too.

I’m busy packing my house and trying to get all the details in place to move before the summer is over! Workouts at the gym have given way to rollerblading and running. (HAPPENS EVERY SUMMER! no worries..i call it my ‘off season and go with the sun! lol)

I’m not used to feeling SO up in the air about my future…and i’m working hard on breathing, relaxing and praying for everything to come together soon. It feels like im in some sort of ‘numb limbo’ right now. What I know for sure is that I WILL NOT do another year in this lonely teeny tiny town. So if I dont make it to Texas by fall, i’m heading back to British Columbia until the paperwork comes threw to move the kids! (this is what i’m waiting on…damn ex husbands from hell! I will try not to get started…but this man tried to kill us when my son was 3 weeks old…has had the kids VERY rarely over the past 12 years and when he did was VERY abusive with my son leading to police reports! He is a freak! And yet I still have to have written permission from either him or a judge in his place saying I can move the children across the border….so please pray my friends…I want to be near my family sooooon. I miss them like crazy!)

SO my friends…BE IN THE NOW!! Dream of tomorrow, and do what you need to today to make that dream come true!!

In the Eye of the Storm!