Long weekend catch up

Lets try this with images and a few captions.

Friday night we had neighbours over for drinks after supper - the kids played (mostly in the dress up clothes)and the adults drank!

Saturday I went to kettlebells and hubby took the kids to the Bluenose Marathon - they did a 4.2 Km! I'm very proud!

Sunday was yard work - my son has become the lawn mower. I think this is great, it frees me up to do REAL gardening!

I also took the girls for a nice long trip to our park.

Monday was relaxin' - and some more yard work

This bed under the window was pathetic before. Now there are some nice grasses and its nicely mulched!

Daughter and I also planted the containers - she chose many of the plant (I wouldn't usually choose snapdragons, but hey, she liked them!) and we got dirty together. : )

There were other things like a family BBQ on Sat night (Aunt Ruth from Thunderbay, Uncle John from Dartmouth, and sissy Alexa from Ottawa were all here!), and a trip to the Dingle today with the Wallace family. Sadly, I don't have pics of everything.

So, I only worked out Sat, but the whole long weekend was extreemly active - and boy, it had better be to burn off some of the calories I in took in the form of alcohol!

That's allllll folks!
Nite

Pain Management

Its Saturday, and as Monday is a holiday (aka no workout) I thought it appropriate to take in one of Craig's one hour Kettlebell classes - aka Pain Management Sessions (this is what hubby calls his time with Craig!)

Here's what the workout looked like/what I can remember of it:

• tabata - double handed swings/jumping on the plyo box
• snatches - 20 per side
• PAIN
• double handed swings/around the body with a rest (stilling the bell when it gets to your chest, then change direction)
• PAIN - a Quad (10 burpees, 10 mountain climbers, 10 bootstraps, 10 burpees)
• 20 jumps on the plyo box
• MORE PAIN
• superset - of pain...I can't remember what we did, but it was a full 10 mins without rest....
• tabata - double handed swings/snatches
• more snatches (we did 100 in total for the workout)
• and finishing with 100 Bootstraps - in a race.

The first man and woman to finish win a free class! Sadly I didn't win. There was alot of pain, I don't remember that kind of pain during an exercise ... ever! I did, however, finish the 100 burpees. I really didn't think I would.....first 30, feeling the burn. Fighting to 50. Ok from 50 to 60. Don't remember 60 - 80. At 80 Craig is at my shoulder yelling encouraging me to finish "knees, heels...KNEES, HEELS!!!". Funny, that much muscle fatigue and I'm feeling ok now, and hour later - guess he really knows what he's talking about! ; P

I'm tired now, but its a beautiful day out there - I'm gonna clean the house, putter in the garden, walk the dogs, and we have neighbours coming over for drinks after supper tonight (which should be a BBQ)! Nice!

Later

PS Hubby took the kids to the Bluenose Marathon today while I was at class - I wish I'd been there to see it, but he took pics and I heard all about it.....encouraging healthy, active lifestyle for everyone! :)