Day Eight - Monday (again)

There's no nice way to say it. We got our asses handed to us this afternoon. Although I think Ann and I chose to kick our own asses for part of it. And as my Uncle Mike said, there's less of my ass to kick this week. :) So I have a new roomie - Laura from Seattle. She's super nice but she brought the rain with her! We have had horrible thunderstorms all day (this is part of why we got our asses kicked). Here's how it went:

We got up at 5:30am and did the OPTIONAL yogalates class. I think it's great because it gets you stretched out before you have to go on the hike. Then we went to breakfast. Breakfast was the frittata which looked wayyyy too heavy to be digesting during a 2 hour+ hike. I opted for cereal again. Here's some pics:

Da maaaa-nuu:

Da frittata

Da cereal (it's good, I promise)

Then we went on our hike. We got a new group this week and I think we kept up pretty well with each other. But then we saw that they're changing our group for the rest of the week so who knows. The hike was through what they call a wash. There's some sort of lake and then there is a damn and locks that hold all the water out. But at this time of year, there's not even enough water in the lake to let water through the damn. So we got to walk through this area that basically is a type of river when there is water in it. Hard to describe. Plus it had rained all night at morning so it was wet and sandy and slippery (the only time of the day it didn't rain was during our hike, what luck!) Here's some photos:

This is what the terrain was like some of the time:

Through the wash...

Hiking through "slots" in the walls

Ann pushing apart the rocks!

Some of our group that climbed to the top of a big rock. Not sure what that one girl is doing :)

When we got back from the hike, we had Stretch class (always awesome after a hike) and then lunch. Lunch was chili with cornbread and was PERFECT since it was cold and rainy out.

After lunch, Ann and I didn't have to go to the lectures so we decided to hit the gym. It was nice - no one else was in there and we did ALL of the circuit machines and also did some cardio. This is where we may have been overachievers because then the storms got worse and they canceled the pool classes. Pool is 1-2 times per day and is important because it's still a great workout, but it is much easier on your joints. Since pool was canceled, they gave us 2 of the hardest cardio class back to back after we had a Core class that kicked our butts. Yeah, we had to do the same class TWICE in a row - and by the way, it includes pushing yourself over the top on cardio AND doing the circuit (which we had already done that day once before). By 5:15pm when everything ended, we were dead to the world. But it felt A-W-E-S-O-M-E. I feel way better than last week, much stronger. I can't wait to kill myself again every day this week and get the most out of this week that I can! Have a great week, everyone.