Day One - Monday

We survived day one! One puker and one cryer later (who shall remain nameless), we finished the day. I'll list the schedule and tell ya some stuff about each part, hows about that?

First off was a yogalates class at 6am so we had to get up by 5:30am! The class was optional but we want to take advantage of everything the resort has to offer. Plus it was good because it allowed us to get stretched out before all the tougher workouts. Here's a quick pic of the room where the group classes are held.

Next up was breakfast - a sausage egg sandwich. I didn't think it was that great - it was a muffin with egg (mostly whites), turkey sausage, tomato and spinach. I put chipotle sauce on it to give it some flavor. Kim thought it was the best breakfast ever and wants to eat it for every meal. :) Oh and we had a nice little plate of fruit too.

After breakfast was our first hike. The 4 of us were put into the same group - a group of 14. We went out to the mountains with 3 guides. I have some pics, but they're nothing spectacular - should have more on future hikes. Ashley, Kim and Stacy mostly stayed together and I went up ahead with the first guide. I believe we hiked 4+ miles through the mountains and we hiked for about 2 1/2 hours or so. It was pretty brutal and hot. But we made it! Blisters aren't too bad so far. When we got back from the hike, we had to go right to our next class. We had a choice - a pool class or a gym class. The other 3 girls did the pool class, but I opted for the gym class since I didn't want to be in the sun too much. Probably would have been easier to do the pool class! But we had another one later in the day. My class was called mountain...you pick a bike, treadmill or elliptical (I did the bike) and you start slow and have to increase every 3 minutes, 12 times. By the end you are dying!

After that was lunch. I couldn't believe that I had hiked and biked over 12 miles and we hadn't even had lunch! For lunch, we had tortilla soup (YUM!) and a turkey sandwich. Pics below. I took off the onion and tomato from the sammich and replaced it with red pepper. Pretty good!

After lunch, we had three lectures/meetings. Lots of good stuff, but it was very hard to stay awake. Everyone was so exhausted! After that, we had our pool class. Basically hanging out in the deep end of the pool with some weights. Was a nice change of pace since everyones legs were sore. Didn't seem like a GREAT workout, but much needed. After that we had circuit training and I loved it! Basically you go on a cardio machine for 2 minutes and then you move to a strength training machine for 2 minutes and everyone rotates. Nice to do multiple things in one workout. After that, we had our FINAL workout which was core training - as in ab exercises, etc. Felt bad for the trainer because everyone had a hard time. It was hard to do some of the moves when our bodies were so sore - its too bad that it was so late for our group. I couldn't believe that our first workout was at 6am and our last one ended at 5:15pm. Yowza. We will be hurtin' for certain tomorrow!

And finally, we had dinner. chicken with polenta - pretty yummy! The polenta had peppers, etc in it. Then we had a fruit parfait for dessert (everyone loved it). After dinner we had another lecture that had great information, but this time everyone was REALLY tired and just wanted to get out of there. Now we get to watch the Bears game - let's hope for a win!! Hope everyone is having a great week.