Mid-semester, Amy

It's definitely the middle of the semester. I've been having a hard time waking up for the workouts this week. Last Thursday I arrived about a half hour late and decided to do my own workout running stairs, working my abs, and then finishing with a mile on the eliptical. I'm hoping to get my stuff in gear for next week, and finish the semester out strong.

However, I went rock climbing last Saturday afternoon and it was pretty cool to realize that I actually have some arm strength now, whereas before I had about nothing. I think one of the really valuable things this Fall Shape Up program is doing for me is giving me a jump start toward fitness and helping me get in the schedule of working out almost every morning. Then after the program is over I can keep up the schedule, but form my own workouts out of things I love to do, like running and rock climbing. I'm going to run the Ragnar Relay (Look it up! So fun!) in March so I need to start hammering out some long runs pretty soon. I ran with my roommate a couple of weeks ago and in about an hour we had covered over five miles. Pretty good stuff.