
Today was my first day of bootcamp! You may recall that I mentioned signing up for a bootcamp back in July through a Bloomspot deal. It was scheduled to start the day after the SF Marathon (HA!) and run through last Friday, but the week of the marathon I realized I’d be traveling two solid weeks out of the month, so I asked to be switched to this month. Success! And then I forgot about it.
I am doing a bootcamp with AlaVie Fitness and I should be going 4-5x a week for these for weeks when I’m in town (two upcoming trips for work). I’ll comment more about my experience with the camp when it’s been a little bit longer!
This weekend was a bit tiring with The Giant Race and a lot of other errands and general confusion. Yesterday was a 17-hour day at the office, but “the office” also involved taking one of our clients out to the Giants game, so I suppose it could have been worse. Though we did get creamed.
When I barely slept (ugh… lights on, in regular clothes on top of bed, hitting snooze button for hours telling myself I’d “get up and work”) for a couple hours, my alarm at 5:15 was NOT welcome! The bootcamp starts at 6AM and meets in Golden Gate Park anywhere from 0.7 to 1.7 miles from my house.
This means leaving my house at 5:45 and jogging right after waking up with two six-pound dumbbells and a yoga mat on my back. And outside looked kinda like this.
(Above picture was taken several minutes after arriving at, and starting, the class AND jogging there in the first place. Creepster!)
The bootcamp was pretty fun! It was a mix of jogging around, jumping over little hurdles, doing lunges and squats, walking with weights, and the like. I definitely broke a sweat but never felt my heart rate raise that high. It never got boring, though I kinda wished there was a boombox or what I was wearing my iPod or that someone would talk to me or something.
But guess what? It’s not even tomorrow yet and my booty is SORE!
When I got really into running I TOTALLY cut my lower body workouts—because I didn’t want to be too sore to run! And I can see how stupid that is. I hadn’t done squats and lunges like that in a while and I am DEFINITELY feeling it. Perhaps this camp will be a good experience for me! It’s going to make running harder (though I suppose I can often get in a few miles at 7a after the bootcamp if I don’t have to be at work super early) but maybe that’s good. I’m not signed up for any races until Nike in October and I’m just going to do the half—so maybe I spend the next four weeks working on muscle building, weight loss, and more shorter, quicker workouts and then build the distance back up in prep for CIM or whatever my next long race is.
At least I have discovered the joy of frozen banana, almond milk, PB, cinnamon, and vanilla for dinner pre-bootcamp:
And Specialty’s “PB and Stuff” for dinner pre-bootcamp #2. I see a theme here.
Does this ever happen to you? Does one kind of fitness make you neglect another one? I’m realizing how much so much of my body has weakened since I started focusing more on running! Maybe it’ll be good to not worry about getting 30-35 miles a week in and just try to get stronger overall. And maybe it’s the kick-start my metabolism needs.
Goodnight everyone!












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