WEDESDAY!

Morning, all! Funny thing- last night I woke up at 1 am, and got this feeling that I shoould make today a rest day and just do my yoga. I'm big into following feelings I get - so I reset my alarm and slept in a teensy bit. No running today. When I woke up later, to actually wake for the day, I find that my left calf has tightened up so much that I'm limping. While I'm brushing my teeth t's starting to loosen up a little bit, but I think that perhaps this was a good reason not to run today. At least this one body part needs a little more recovery. So tomorrow, back in the saddle.

Today - Yoga!! With whom? No one other than Deni Preston, of course. Yes, eventually I'll want to break it up a little more with a few other instructors, but for now I'm happy with my set of dvds.

After the first 20 mins or so I felt my calves start to open and lengthen, and my heels began to touch the floor again as I sayed on Down Dog. Big Toe Pose... what does it do?? It says, "Good Morning!!!" to your Hamstrings!!! As it stretches out the hams it stretches it out the calves as well. Half Moon is challenging!! But it feels so good!! Especially when you come out of it, ha ha! Wag the Tail - NOT a favorite! Did a groin opening after Traingles. WOW!! and YOWZAAA! But after the first 3 breathes it began to feel better and open up. Runner have tight groins... but like I mentioned, I am DETERMINED not to have that issue. The only way to keep those muscles open and maintain that fexibility I have (and increase it) is by doing poses that open this area of the body, like Wag the Tail, the Pliet Squat thing (I dunno what it's called), etc. So even when they make me wanna cry, I gotta tolerate it and breathe through it, and as I do breath through it I feel these muscles opening, and the tension decreases as I exhale deeper into the poses.

I love Yoga. It exposes all our weaknesses at once, then challneges us to improve then, maybe even one day to make them strengths.

It looks like it might rain today. awwwwww. I was hoping to get a little sun. Maybe I'll get a little gardening in before it does. So much to do. But it looks like I may be starting to get a handle on the timing of my mornings. It's not quite 8 am. And yesterday I was in the shower before 8 am. Tomorrow I'll just have to get up a tiny bit earlier so I can keep this schedule. I like it better this way.

I hope my ramblings have been fun to read. Brightest Blessings to you all! Namaste!