Boogie

I have an insane amount of energy. I'm tired, because I haven't gotten more than 5.5 hours of sleep over the last several nights (and for no particularly awesome reasons) but somehow I can't sit still. I think it's because I'd gotten up to running some 20 miles a week and then I took it all away. Almost immediately, I'm not hungry all the time and not so craving-y and I'm not sleeping as soundly as I'd like.

Tuesday was a good yoga class, although it was hard to concentrate. It seemed to sort of focus me for Wednesday, and climbing Wednesday was just ridiculous. Last week, my work out day had been 10 routes (I think it was like 5 5.8s and then a good mix of 5.6s and 5.7s). Yesterday, I did not climb 10 routes...I climbed 7. My coach/partner/freakin bad ass friend pushes me way harder than I would ever push myself. I started on 5.8, then 5.9, 5.9, 5.10, 5.9, 5.7, 5.6. By the time I got to the 5.7, my arms were so pumped out that I fell (repeatedly) off the route that I've done about 40 times. It was actually pretty embarrassing. I bucked up for the 5.6 and managed it ok, but I have to say even that was an effort. I'm looking forward to the day I can climb all of those 5.9s clean...so far I'm not there but it's getting closer. Soon as I do, I can take the lead class and I'll be fairly satisfied with myself. In any case, I'm quite sore today. The post climb beer was well appreciated - I think my body is starting to be conditioned to a post-climb beer...I love my climbing friends. I still don't really have a taste for beer, but it's a good way to end the awesomeness that is climbing.

Tonight, the weather washed out my original workout plans (80s dancing in Adams Morgan) but I came home and did an hour and a half of yoga poses and crunches. I'll take a moment to say that my new yoga mat, which came in the mail yesterday after TWO WEEKS, is AWESOME. It's purple (of course) and it's suuuuper sticky. Also, it's eco-friendly, edible, recyclable and will take messages while you're not home. The blanket I got is also pretty sweet. In any case, the newest yoga video I got is a little ridiculous. I was pretty sold by the title: Yoga Trance Dance with Shiva Rea...it basically sounds awesome, right? Well, it's awesome on some levels (the music is sooo rhythmic and percussive) but the way Shiva is filmed is ridiculous...it looks like some college tech guy who got all this new equipment filmed the video. There are these crazy aerial shots, and then frontal shots transposed on profile shots...the whole thing is dizzying. The poses are good and it's a whole other skill set, but it's too hard to follow. (Not the poses, but the transitions). Plus, the woman talks like she was smoking something and it goes from very long, drippy words to words all smooshed together. All too frustrating. Conveniently, you can turn off talking lady and just have some good beats. The actual dance sequences are quite silly, but the people dancing are very pretty and they do make me want to be silly in a desert too.

I may be bouldering at the gym tomorrow, depending on whether I decide to hang out with a good bunch of friends of friends...I'm also hoping that Sunday leads to climbing at Seneca. I was told the weather would be good, but weatherchannel.com disagrees...in all honestly, I want to really close out my tan before the sun goes away. And I DO want to climb Seneca. It looks quite pretty. Apparently it's all trad, which should be interesting since I still haven't seen that in action.

I'm going to put on 80s music and boogie around my (ultra cool temperature) apartment. I <3 living alone.