So as I’m headed to the gym today, it starts POURING. The rain is cascading down the street and I have to put my windshield wipers on high. It dies down on my 5 minute drive there and when I arrive, PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AROUND THE BLOCK. I guess it’s “Helen” day at the gym:

• 2 laps around the building
• 21 kettle bell swings
• 12 pullups

THREE TIMES THROUGH

I just wasn’t feeling it today. Our skills workout was one-arm kettlebell push presses x3 and I got up to 36kg, but I was breathing hard and feeling pretty tired every time I push pressed. I think all the leg work early in the week, all the core work yesterday, and something else this week to toast my shoulders made me zombie-like in demeanor. Seriously, I was wondering if I was going to see my lunch just from the push press.

But it was the workout, and so far this year I’ve just gone for it. If you just push through the workouts, you get steadily fitter. I now have some base fitness and I can make it through most of them with a good time and with good form. Not great, but good. And today, to my surprise, I was the first one through in our class. That’s even doing two extra pullups because I thought I miscounted on the first round and having a drippy runny nose from having to run out in the cold rain. That’s my excitement for the day.

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