OMG. We are creating an elite group of female athletes at Front Range Boot Camp. Kudos to the women who shaved up to a minute off their hill mile time this am! Charlotte Bassin, Christie Myers, Lisa Folks, Tamara Merkert, Gabrielle Draper, Vanessa Folks Gonzalez, Janet Smith Wood, Jessica Hansen, Pamela Mackey, Nicole Piaski, Cindy Lacy, Jennifer Forker, Liz Mosser, Maurine Theme, Amy Youngman Bray, Katie Osse, Michelle Coffey, Meera Rosser, Gerri Jackson, Anne Robinson, Trina Fyffe, Paula Langhorst, Jeribeth Stevens, JJ Moss, Jeanne Dietz, Cara Burrola, Amy Hedgewood, Lindsey Drahota.

 5:20 am boot camp women

 6:30 am boot camp women

8:00 am boot camp women. Rock Stars - all of them

Shout-Outs: To those athletes who beat their previous "hill mile" time Monday as well as their "frontage road" mile time Wednesday by up to ONE MINUTE. Lisa Folks, Charlotte, Christie, Karen D., Tamara, Kelley, Maurine, Amy B., JJ, Jeanne, Katie O., Shayne, Cindy L., Janet, Deborah, Vanessa, Pamela, Lynne..... Geez. Crazy!

JJ Chin-ups

Heather Ring Pushups

Liz in the lead - running jump rope

And then there's Gerri ....

We are in week 2 of the Body Transformation Challenge and already I am witnessing bodies changing. You look lean and strong. Your performance in your workouts is increasing. Your eyes are bright and most of you are sleeping better. Wow. Who knew that changes could be felt in all areas of your life so rapidly? You are healing your body at the same time you are losing weight, inches and bodyfat. You don't need to be in the Challenge to clean up your diet. What are you waiting for?

 Katie and Karen - barbell push press and cleans. Stay tuned for another barbell workshop coming soon!

Shout-Outs: Lindsey: first double-under! Katie: first kipping pullup! Vanessa: decreased mile time by 2 minutes - and that is the hill mile! (Other mile time shout outs to come). Jenny: eliminated sugary drinks from her diet 3 mos. ago and has lost 12 lbs.!

Welcome Lluvia, Katie, Shayne, Michelle, Leah, Maurine, Heidi, Ladean, Julie, Charlette, Maria and Kristina to boot camp!

Thoughts on "Being" vs "Doing"

I have forgotten how to just "BE".  I have turned into a "DOING" machine and am tired. No, I am exhausted. To the bone. Exhausted. Four weeks ago I had my appendix out. In the meantime, my family has purged the contents of, and moved out of, the large house we had lived in for 20 years. We moved into a small townhouse and had a garage sale. Stayed up late and got up early, ate like crap. Slept like crap. Didn't rest. At all. (Shocker, I know).  I started doing workouts again this week (Thanks Amy and Lindsey!). This morning I headed out to conquer a nearby mountain trail and it conquered me. I was forcing myself to run even though I hurt. Everywhere. Even my mind hurt. So I walked. With my head down and my monkey mind blithering on about how many things I had to do to "catch up" with the life I left unfinished "before move". I stopped and realized  was not present AT ALL to the beauty I had put myself in. A breeze was blowing, the flowers were swaying, the birds were singing, the sky had not a cloud in it and I was busy ripping myself a new one because I was out here walking rather than at home getting my to-do list done.

At my new house I think I remember seeing a giant bathtub in the even more giant master bath, and a cushy lounge chair on the deck outside my bedroom. If I got all my work done, maybe I could try them out some day. Like Saturday maybe. Then I realized, you need to try them out TODAY. The most important thing I needed to do was to rest. So I did. I walked the rest of the way back to my car, came home, took a 2 hour nap, soaked in my new tub, wrote this blog.. Tonight maybe I will go out on my new deck and sit in that cushy chair. AND I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER having spent this afternoon practicing "being" rather than "doing". And the world did not end because of it.