girmander

so, i'm teaching 2x a week, doing a 4x a week practice, training for a triathalon (5am tue-thurs!), finishing up my side web project and going to work 40 hours a week.

can i even think straight, untangle myself and see out of my ass? umm.. sometimes.

you should see my schedule, you really should. most weekdays i'm out the door by 5:45am and i don't even come home until 7:30pm. yowzaz!

yeah, the teaching thing. really interesting.

1. i never knew how much energy it took to teach. i am litterally tired after an 1- 1/12 hour class. like i just did it with them.

2. keeping time, i knew would be a problem. i didn't know that it was going to eat up THAT much of my focus.

3. yo was right. the first class is not too bad (in terms of talking). it's the 5+ classes afterwards that you start questioning what you said. you start to think the stuff that come out of your mouth is just cheesy. and then you go.. i can't believe i said that--that sounded really dumb.

4. it's hard not to take it so personally when students come and go.

5. how do you remember names? so hard!

6. the first 5 min is like jumping into a cold lake. shocking to see all those face looking up at you--wanting to know what to do.

7. i always wonder about the effort level of the class. i tend to think that they aren't getting sweaty enough or it's not enough of a challenge.

8. why can't i talk like richard freeman? that man is poetry.

9. never underestimate giving reiki in the room. pretty cool. now, to become a reiki master...

10 . i get into a zone. like doing the asana. wonder if that's true for most people.

11. i'm always curious to know how students felt about class. maybe because i'm such a people pleaser.

this saturday, i'm talking with miss L. about how things are going and what i want to teach for next quarter. should be a good convo. interestingly enough the amount of passion and motivation i feel for this is what i thought i would feel before i got reamed by M. after that day. i really didn't care until i started teaching outside of there. i just realize now that i need to get away and take a break from there. who knows how long it'll be.

guess what? i'm certifying nov 14th. then i'm done! w00t!! DONE!

and i'm psycho enough to start again on my MBA and more reiki training. but i think online MBA this time.

and i just priced out my friend for wedding photos a MINIMUM of 3800$ investment in TOWN! damn, i should have been a wedding photographer. i can't even imagine shipping him and his wife to hawaii/caribbean. (ouch!)

happy 6th anniversary to my lion! i love you so very much!

the lion surprised me with dinner at home, a piece of art work, and a bouquet of lillies. even though he's been deathly ill with the flu.

and i thought he forgot!

i think we are!

we're getting married in a treehouse in big sur!

woohoo!

kick ass, i finished the marathon sunday! oh wait, i ran the last .2 miles of the marathon w/ the lion and the lion's sis. i finished but i definitely didn't start it. haha. we did our workouts and biked to the finish line from OSU looking for his sister. she wanted to finish it around 4:30 but she came in about 5:05. we then ate @ the north market and biked back to OSU. loaded up the bikes, went home and made cho-chip and walnut cookies. way satisfying.

i kicked practicum ass monday. no really bad comments. in fact martha said i did well. and then marcia came up to me yesterday and said " i heard you did really good monday". like whoa. my teaching voice is like whoa. too bad my ass isn't like whoa. (ha) btw, i'm working on my ass. those glute weight machines are HARD.

i actually got throught most of the primary (except for setu bandasana) tuesday. and i was only 5 min over. now, if i could add in setu bandasana and be 5 min under, perfection!

also, l and i had a meeting about how i was doing and she had also commented to me that i had more confidence in teaching. it's so nice when people notice that stuff. anyways, we talked about level 1, 2, and 3 yoga workshops that we could do and i think she got alot of great ideas. not only that, she would like to have sutra "book club"/study. i told her to get meditations from the mat by rolf gates. it pretty much goes through the yamas/niyamas and the eight limbs. i think it's a great modern way to bring the sutras to light. he's pretty much an anatomist and some people have a beef with him and his anatomy theory but, really this IS a good book.

well enough about yoga. let's talk tri. so, i'm lifting once a week, pilates 1x a week, running 3x a week, biking 2x a week and swiming 2x a week.

i missed my early week swim (due to nervousness with practicum). but i've been good about my other workouts. i actually converted my midweek biking to a brick. so i'm doing 35 min of biking and .5 mile of running. and i've also made my thursday morning run (aka today) into a recovery/interval run. i ran 1 mile slow and then intervaled the 2nd mile. so, i'm thinking of making my early week run into the " race mileage run" (3.1mi) and my weekend run into an "add more miles run" (aka endurance). i hope to get my endurance runs to 5-6 miles. i really don't want to go more than that. my weekend biking i'm looking into increasing the resistance and time slowly. and in swimming i just want to be able to continuously swim for 30 min straight. i don't care if have to doggie paddle at this point. once i get that, i'll be looking into a swim coach to actually teach me to do freestyle correctly. i just love watching people who can do it correctly and do the flip at the end to go and finish their lap. i want to be just like that. i'd swim everyday if i could do that :)

the lion and i are still getting over being sick. he's more fatigued than i am. but, that may all change since it was upper 70's yesterday and it's not supposed to top 65 today. and it's supposed to be colder and rain this weekend. blech. good thing i scheduled massages for us. we need some recovery :)

the lion made breakfast for dinner last night. when i was driving home i wasn't too jazzed about eating only meat for dinner. but, i'm actually glad he did. god knows i needed the protien. i actually thought about sneaking a salad in there but, i definitely think that had we made it not protien laden, i would really have felt it in my muscles today.

oh well. tomorrow's friday. yay! i'll finally have time to move from a 1/2 locker to a full one and get my headlight bulb replaced. shit. i just do too much.

triathalon:

i broke the elusive 10min/mile tuesday. the title of my post up there? yeah that's my avg mile time tues. i've been running 3 miles consistently for 2 weeks now and i've increased .30/mi on sunday. i'm so happy! altho today's brick was hard. my quads are getting more sore as the week goes on. i do have to say i've brought down my first 1/2 mile brick from 11:40 to 11:00min/mi. we'll see about tomorrow's intervals. i reiterate again. lifting is HARD.

yoga:

i did some restorative work sunday. it felt so nice. i'm trying to scrape up enough money to do a couple of todd norean's anusara yoga classes the weekend of nov 11th. today i'm trying to debate whether or not to do primary or marcia's level 3. i'm starting to get really tired. i know primary will help alot. i'm just not sure if i can muster up enough energy to go. i have a jump through and jump back workshop nov 6th. and 1 more workshop i need to do. i wonder if restoratives count. hrmmm.

wedding:

so, my dress came in early and i have to pay it off by february. i so wasn't expecting it to come so early. i think i might take a litte drive down to cinci to try it on again. and to make sure it's the right dress, size ect...
too... much... to... think... about... and to save. good lord. ugh.