Back in business w/ a little Annie

Let's see ... what's happened the past few days?

Well, it was the week from hell at work actually. I worked until ater 7pm on Thursday, came home and went straight to bed. No workout.

Then yesterday I left work at 3 and had a happy hour with a bunch of my coworkers. It was MUCH NEEDED. I had a few beers, which were also needed :) , and then came home and went to bed around 7:30. Yes, that early! I know, I know, what a bum but I was so exhausted from work I didn't doubt that it was exactly what I needed. And who workouts after a few beers? Umm... not me!

I woke up even before 7 this morning and considered that sleeping in. I felt great. Michael was going golfing with the guys so I had the house to myself. It was glorious. I didn't clean or do anything productive... I watched 3 episodes of Bones on Netflix then read my book for a few hours.

Finally around 3 I figured I should probably do something with myself and headed to the gym.

I did "Annie" and I did it as prescribed for the first time ever!
50 double unders, 50 sit-ups
40 double unders, 40 sit-ups
30 double unders, 30 sit-ups
20 double unders, 20 sit-ups
10 double unders, 10 sit-ups
Time = 15:38

The improvement I've made in this workout is incredible to me. The first time I did "Annie" was November 2008 and I couldn't do a double under to save my life. I did 2 regular jump ropes for every double under because I simply could not do them.

A year later, November 2009, I scaled the workout and did 35-25-20-15-10 reps of double unders and sit-ups instead of the 50-40-30-20-10 it calls for because I still wasn't very good at double unders. My time was 18:19 which holy hell that is a TERRIBLE time, but I didn't care b/c I was doing double unders dang it.

Then on May 18th of this year, I did 35-25-20-15-10 reps again (the same as above) but did it in 9:59 so a huge improvement.

So, yes, 15:38 for "Annie" is pretty shitty but considering how far I've come, I'm totally stoked! I'd also like to say that my shoes came untied once so I had to take a minute to retie them both and my pony tail kept falling out of my hair from jumping which took time to keep readjusting. Not that I'm making excuses or anything :-P

Oooh, in other exciting news, I got my two sweatybands in the mail today. I've been reading about these on various blogs and used some of my birthday money to buy a couple. I have a serious problem with any sort of headband rolling back on my head than springing off the back... it must be the way my head is shaped or something because they just don't stay on. Everyone swears by these so I guess we'll see if they work-

The pics were taken w/ my cell phone, sorry they suck.

Now we're heading to our friends' house who is hosting a "Goonies" party!