Cross-Training

Thursday night Becca and I had our weekly date night at One Yoga Saratoga.  Our instructor, Justin, gave us a class that mixed up hip openers with inversions.  It was a challenging and amazing class and I actually held handstand pose longer than I ever have before.

The following morning I woke at 3:15 to make sure I got to my friend's house in Niskayuna by 4:00am.  He and I are training for the Timberman Half-Ironman.  During the week we each train on our own and once a week we get together workout and swim.  The first few weeks we hadn't really been pushing ourselves all that much.  This week that started to change.  I don't know if it was because of doing yoga the night before, or because of how early it was, but Friday morning's workout kicked my butt!  To add insult to injury we went to the Niskayuna high school pool where my friend's swim coach put us through some pretty tough drills.

The rest of the day I was really achy and unsure of my ability to stand back up once I sat down.  But, every time I sat down, I was able to get back up, so all's good :-)

~The Mr.