Train Insane...

love this.

Last week I was the staff leader on an amazing Alternative Spring Break service trip with a group of students from my school. We had a wonderful week, helping those less fortunate by doing home repair and getting to know each other well. The week was a perfect reset button after a stressful winter at work.

CAP Black Crew March 10 - 15

My beautiful girls from SMC (I'm all the way on the right)

I wouldn't trade the experience for anything, but a week away from home, work and routines can do a number on you! We ate horribly (think: southern food and processed snacks...and LOTS of them) and I didn't workout once (unless you count construction work...which I don't!). I had to cancel a chiropractic adjustment that I had scheduled before I knew I was going on the trip which has left me feeling out of whack...plus sleeping on planes/floors/bunk beds doesn't help that! Basically, the week was just what I needed mentally and emotionally and just what I didn't need physically.

BUT sometimes we have to make sacrifices in order to have wonderful memories and life experiences! So, I got back in the saddle yesterday with my scheduled 6 mile run with Emily. It was ROUGH. There were many moments where I was cursing my week off, cursing my sister for not letting me stop and walk and cursing my body for feeling so awful. I laid on the floor for a solid 10 minutes when we got home and was sore and exhausted for the rest of the day. I went to bed with an absolutely killer headache and woke up the same way.

So today I hit another reset button. However, this time it was going to benefit my body as well as my mind! I took some Advil to kick the headache, had a smoothie for breakfast, a hard boiled egg for a mid morning snack, had soup, grapes and broccoli with hummus for lunch, had some coffee after lunch, drank tons of water and scheduled 2 workouts for tonight. I am feeling a thousand times better now that I have started getting my body back on track - the headache is nearly gone, I've got a chiropractor visit scheduled for Wednesday and I'm ready to get back to training my body.

It's really a wonder what you can train your body to do, and how quickly you can lose that hard work. I'm using this as a reminder of WHY I work hard to push my body to its limits. 

Tonight's savasana is going to feel so good. It's all worth it!