Fitness/Friends Fest!

Too much has already gone on in the way of friends and fitness this weekend to wait for a total weekend recap. Get ready for lots of pictures!

Friday was a HUGE fitness day. Sarah and I started the morning off with a kickboxing demo - 30 minutes, gloves, punching and kicking a bag... it was SO much fun! I don't know if I should be concerned, but I just really like hitting things. Boxing is so much fun!

Then I went to Job #1 - boring.

After work I met Kristin for yoga! If you haven't figured it out by now, this class is definitely becoming "our thing."

Kristin and Babs post yoga :-)

The class was tough, which was not good for us because... we stayed for a two hour Zumbathon! Thankfully we had time to eat dinner together in the club cafe before it was time to Zumba the night away. Of course Sarah, World's Best Instructor, was there, along with Maddie (a friend who left for college this year). It was fun to spend a Friday night exercising with so many friends!

Sarah! I was moving too much when I took this pic, oops!

Kristin in the blue tank

Sarah and Babs!

Babs and Maddie!

If you couldn't tell from all the pink in the pictures, the Zumbathon raised money for breast cancer. I'd say the first 90 minutes were really fun. After that point my feet hurt and my shins started hurting... but I stuck it out. :-)

Onto Saturday!

I worked Job #2 - again, boring. Then it was time to get ready for a race! I know... an afternoon 5k seemed weird to me too, but it was actually a lot of fun. Remember my shins started hurting during the Zumbathon? Well, I woke up with shin splints (mostly on one leg). Thankfully Sarah brought me some KT Tape to try - I definitely think it helped.

Shin, all taped up for support

The race went right by Sarah's house, so her parents, husband, and three dogs were out in the yard cheering us on!

Pretty sure she's saying hi to her dogs :-)

1,000 minutes later, I appear!

The race was good! The weather was perfect, a lot of people dressed in costumes (which made it slightly more interesting), and with a good dose of hills and a little wind, it felt like a challenge. I didn't run a new post-surgery PR (my time for this one was 31:40... a 10:11/mile pace), but I was perfectly fine with my time. Sarah sped through in an amazing time and came in 2nd place for her age division.

Cheetah Sarah!!!!!

Kristin ran the race too! She was awesome because she actually ran in a costume. Can you guess what she was??

She's static cling!!

As soon as the race was over I hopped in my car and headed out to meet Emily, her baby boy Dylan, and Alyssa for frozen yogurt. Emily and Dylan are visiting for the weekend, so it was very important that we found time to get together.

Dylan and Emily

Dylan just turned one a few days ago. He's getting so big! He also seemed to have a real fondness for my car keys. :-) I was so glad to see Em - I miss her so much now that she doesn't live here anymore.

When I got home, this was sitting on the counter...

Flowers!

Apparently today is "Sweetest Day" - honestly I've NEVER heard of it, but somehow Andy had, so he got me some flowers! Well I'd say that was pretty darn sweet of him. :-)

They're so pretty!

And now I'm off to listen to Andy play his concert. Tomorrow I don't really have any big plans, so hopefully you won't be bombarded with two picture-heavy posts in a row!

Hope you all have a great rest of your weekend. :-)