TnT's Workout Blog

We had a considerable head wind whatever direction we rode, but it did not matter --- it felt so good to be on the road again. I was fairly surprised, though, that there is not as much green and flowers in the countryside yet, as there is in town or in our yard. Of course, the tree species are quite different. There was some sand on the road, especially in THE Boltinghouse hill, which we came down slo-o-o-w-l-y today. We saw a few roadkills, too. And bugs are not out yet. I expect to do a lot more riding once our running races are over.

Bummer! I just snipped the mounting bracket of the cyclocomputer. I guess it is about the time to get a new computer anyway --- a wireless one, and new helmets. Ours have seen way too much sunlight in the past years.

Despite some shortcomings the new studio is quite nice; we have much more room than in the previous place, and abundance of daylight; the building is an old church, and it has large windows facing South and North. The location sucks, and the floor (still); they just moved the old taped-all-over dance mat from the old place and put it over the wooden floor in the church. I guess it is better than having the mat on concrete, though.

In the core section we spent a lot of time on ball doing various abdominal crunches.

Core was a standard combination of abs and back; isometric and basic crunch w/ and w/o a weight --- a lot of stuff with elevated legs which after the CycleFit was quite a challenge.

We rode our bikes to SRSC. The morning was sunny and the temperature barely above 0C. What a great start to the weekend!

Balancing exercise was new and exiting, and quite challenging. It's difficult to imagine how hard it could be to stand on both feet. I guess Tomi particularly enjoyed the relaxation part. We ran to and from HPER.

Tei spent almost an hour practicing the hornpipe step with Mimi for tomorrow's performance. I got a glance of the new studio. The old dance mat is still there, but now we have more room, more restrooms, a separate space for people to wait for their (next) class to begin or parents to await their kids, and windows, so that daylight gets in!

My nerve problem that has improved quite a bit in the last few days got gradually a little worse during the first half of the run, but then did not remind of its existence for the rest of it.

We only have 21 days to the St. Louis Half Marathon. Today we reserved a place to stay: The Courtyard by Marriott, St. Louis Downtown. We may also have a chance to visit the Anheuser Busch Brewery. Yippee!

The leader, Heidi, was as energetic as usual, if not even more so. She had some new sequences of steps, shuffles, grapevines, V's, and mambos. In core section we mostly trained abs with the ball --- crunches and planks.

Pretty many brave minds made it to the CycleFit. The workout was pretty effective, too --- we did speed workout, short and fast climbs, steady long climbs and some head wind riding.

The core session was canceled, but our riding in the pouring rain counts as quite hardcore (pointed out by one of the CycleFit participants). Actually, it turns out the session was not canceled --- we just didn't read the Spring break schedule right.

Afterthought (10/03): I guess we won't. I have a pinched sciatic nerve and running, or any kind of impact inflicts excruciating pain in my right calf that radiates all the way up to the knee and the hip. So we'll stick to DWE, CycleFit and strength training for now. Bummer!