Bikram yoga

This afternoon went to a Bikram class with Ruddy. It was a real good class for me, and Ruddy is a very cool guy, he sang again during final savasana.

LAF Yoga and run

This morning went to another gym yoga class with yet another different instructor. Not a lot of action in this class, pretty easy. Later in the afternoon ran down canal and thru oasis neighborhood for about 3.5 miles, at a pretty fast pace.

Spin

This morning went to a spin class at LA Fitness.Good class, good instructor.

Windgate Pass

Today I went to a Dr. Cummings appt. and was told I needed elbow surgery, and went to work and packed up all my shit in 3 big boxes. On a bright note tho I finally made it to Windgate pass, by way of Horseshoe, Gateway and Windgate and back the same way. It was a tough, long run but the best part of the entire day. 7.8 miles.

Bikram yoga

This morning went to yoga with Kat. I was bummed out to find out that they don't give you free extra class in the same day like Scottsdale does, and it effected my performance for a while.

Hidden Valley

This morning I ran at South Mountain again, out to the hidden valley. I came back by way of Mormon loop this time, about 10k.

LAF yoga again

Today went to 11am class with the wife. This one was more of a power yoga class, and it was considerably harder. We will see if I can get the wife to go back.

LA Fitness yoga

Yesterday at 11 went to a yoga class at LA Fitness. It wasn't near the ordeal that Bikram is but there were some great elements and I enjoyed it.

Box canyon

I got laid off today. I couldn't really concentrate enough to finish the day so I left early and ran from Sanctuary golf course parking lot to the box canyon at the end of Quartz trail. The signs indicated 6.8 miles but there is no way that is accurate, I'm thinking another mile at least.

Bikram yoga

This morning went to 6am Cindy class. Elbow was killing me but wasn't really a problem after locust pose.

Cactus bridge PR

Ran from the park to the bridge today at lunch. Nice day, overcast and a little windy. Got a PR by about a minute. 5.89 miles.

QTJ loop

At lunch ran the loop from 104th st trailhead. Not very fast today. 4.89 miles.

Desert Park-Windgate-Gateway-Horseshoe loop

Ran the loop today at lunch. Nice day out and I think I finished about 2 mins ahead of previous pace. Lots of hikers out on the trails due to MLK day. 5.1 miles

Bikram yoga

Went to 8am Helena class this morning in Tempe. Had a pretty good class, I think I'm doing better at camel.

Wellsite PR

This morning ran down the canal to the well. Got a PR by a little over a minute! 4.9 miles.

Sunrise

At lunch today ran up to Sunrise peak again, this time for the other end, at the end of Via Linda. The route is much shorter, and thus much steeper. It really isn't very good for running, too many steep grades. 4 miles.

Paradise

At lunch today ran from 104th trailhead down Quartz to Paradise to Gateway loop to Bell pass intersection. Lower legs and feet hurt like hell the first couple miles, got better after that tho. 5.2 miles.

Bikram yoga

Yesterday morning went to 6am class in Tempe with Cindy. I was pretty sore and stiff for some reason, elbow hurt a lot.

Short Golf

At lunch today ran this loop, about 30 seconds off pace. It was a beautiful day out, nice after all that cold weather back east. My stupid toe blister hurt a bit but not too bad. 4.12 miles.

Washington run part 2

Yesterday morning I ran again from my brothers apartment. This time along the Potomac to the Jefferson Memorial, then north FDR memorial, the Vietnam war memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. Next ran down Constitution Drive to 17th up towards the White House until New York Ave where I got blocked by a long military parade. I ended up running along the parade to 15th, went down that to Independence Ave, over to 7th and back home. About 5.7 miles.

NYC yoga

We took the Amtrak train 3 nights ago to NYC. The next morning (2 days ago) I got up and walked the block and a half in the freezing cold (it snowed alot while we were there) and went to a Bikram class in midtown Manhattan, Bikram Yoga NYC. The class was on the fourth floor of its building about a porno store. The teacher was a french chick and the only odd thing was she made me rotate my mat for single leg stretching postures.

Washington run

I just got back from my trip to visit my brother in D.C. today. The first day (3 days ago) I ran in the early morning from his apartment on 6th and I street south of the Capital, along the Potomac to the Washington Monument, down the north side of the mall to the Capital, back down the south side of the mall to 7th and back to his apartment. It was coooooold out and i managed to create a big blister running in my old shoes I brought. It was extremely cool running there seeing all that stuff. About 4 miles.

early Yoga

Went to a 6am class in Tempe today with Cindy. It was tough getting going but once the class got started it was business as usual, maybe a little less flexible, but it went good.

Horizon-Windgate

The cold I caught on New Years Eve finally went away enough to go running today. At lunch ran up thru Windgate from Horizon park, just enough past Union Hills this time to get the 10k distance.