Ouch

I'm still alive.. barely. Last night was my first time to go to Camp Gladiator. I was really nervous all day yesterday second guessing myself. I kept telling +Jimmy Ho that I was scared, and he told me to not think about it. How could I not think about it? It was the only thing I COULD think about.

I packed up my things and drove over to where the camp meets. When I got there, there were only a couple of girls there and the trainer who I met the other day at the 5K. He remembered my name, and he was really welcoming which made me feel better. There ended up being about 10 people there. Jimmy and I did not put out mats next to each other. People that were there probably did not know that we knew each other, let alone that we were married. It was better that way. Since I could not really see Jimmy, I was able to "forget" he was there and just focus on me.

This week is actually the last week of the prior month. We got to come to this one since we won a free month, but our free month technically does not start until 3/18 since they take a week off in between months. Because this was the last week, it is the hardest week! Why in the world would they want me to come to that? Oh well, I was there! So it was time to get started. Um.. I was winded in the warm-up! I don't even remember what we did, but it involved jumping up and down. Since it is not super easy for me to leave the ground, it was tough! We also had to run laps in between a lot of the exercises. The laps were not that big, but I'm still pretty slow. The trainer modified my lap, and I can't even tell you how thankful I was for that. We had a list of exercises to go through. Some of them I could not do! I felt intimidated. It seemed like everyone around me could do the exercises! The trainer said if anyone needed to take a break anytime that they could. I saw another girl skip one of the exercises that I couldn't do, and that made me feel a lot better. I was not the only one that couldn't do it. We had to go through that list twice. I didn't make it through twice before the time was up, but I did what I could.

We then had to get a partner. I was really nervous about this! I didn't want to hold anyone back or have them watch me struggle. Luckily, the girl next to me asked me to be her partner. It was kind of awkward because one person had to lay on the ground while the other person straddled their head so that the person on the ground could hang on to your ankles while they were doing ab exercises (just picture an L b/c that is what we looked like). She was really nice and was able to do the ab exercises really easily. When it was my turn, she was really encouraging even though I visibly struggled. The trainer came by and seemed to be really pleased with me. You should have seen my legs shaking!!! I was wiped out.

After that we played a game. Lauren was my partner again, and we played paper, rock, scissors. Whoever lost was chased by the person that won. It was pretty fun, and even though I was tired, I almost felt like a kid running around. I had not felt that in a long time, and it was a good feeling. The hour was tough, but it flew by pretty quickly. I was so happy it ended when it did. I felt DONE.

I stretched when I got home because I knew I would be sore today. I didn't feel too bad this morning, but as the day has gone on, I am SO sore. My abs, my legs, my arms, and my butt hurt SO bad!!! Even though I was hurting, I went and walk/jogged (barely jogged) a mile. I also walked my mile on Sunday. So I have to walk 2 more times this week, and I'm going back to Camp Gladiator tomorrow.  I'll need all the help I can get!