Too hot!

• I haven’t been to CrossFit all week. The last time I was in it was like 90 degrees in there. My core temperature already seems to be off the charts so this just won’t do. I was trying to remember how I hacked it last summer and then I realized that I didn’t. I came in at 6AM. I never was one for a dealing well with the heat.
• I set it up so that I will be coming in mornings on Tue/Thurs and I will come in Saturday mornings.  So that makes my typical workout schedule M/W/F – 60 min walk or cardio and T/Th/Sat circuit training.
• I’ve come to enjoy my morning walks rather than resent them for not being morning runs. I have a nice route that includes a couple of very steep hills. I can get in 4 miles in 60 minutes if I don’t have to take a bunch of bathroom breaks. I have to laugh when I remember walking an annual corporate 5K and it taking 1:20 min. We must have really been strolling if it took that long to walk 3.1 miles when I can do 4 miles in a shorter time while 7 months pregnant!
• I was absolutely groove-walking to this song this morning. The disco breakdown at 1:50 always gets me going! Why do girl groups with two members like The Jazzyfatnastees (admittedly somewhat obscure but excellent music) and Zhane (loved-loved-loved) seemed doomed to ultimate failure?
• I just put my Peachtree Road Race number up for sale.  Once again, I am missing out.  I skipped it last year because I wasn’t feeling well.  I had a good qualifying time too so I was up front not far behind the people who will finish faster than I could ever dream of running.  I could walk the 6.2 miles but even when I go walking at 6AM it is hot…and there aren’t 50,000 other people around then either.  Ah well, the number will sell for a pretty penny so I’m not too upset.
• My sister is on a 750/day calorie crash diet to lose 10 pounds.  *Sigh*  Even when I have to lose all of this baby weight, I am going to approach it the same way I did before.  Diet and exercise.  I’d rather work my butt off in the gym and eat like a fairly normal person than starve and not exercise.  One pound a week is good solid weight loss.  Do you hear me sister dear?!?
• I was thinking about it during my walk this morning and I can see where she is coming from.  It is sort of like Dave Ramsey’s “debt snowball” approach.  Conventional financial wisdom says pay off debts with the highest interest rate first.  Dave says pay off debts from smallest to largest regardless of interest rate  That way you get the psychological benefit of seeing debt disappear and are more likely to stick with the plan.  I tend to follow Dave’s advice when dealing with my debt (with a dash of conventional wisdom thrown in), but I wouldn’t do it for dieting.  I know that 10 pounds lost from starvation looks way different than 10 pounds lost through diet and exercise.  Some things are just worth taking the time to do.
• My HypnoBabies home study course came in this week and I did my first practice session.  I really think I hypnotized myself!  I wasn’t asleep but I didn’t feel quite awake either.  I was just very relaxed and focused within.  In fact, my headphones were hurting my ear when I started and then I forgot all about the irritation.  As soon as I came out of the hypnosis, I was aware that my ear was hurting again.  I think this stuff might actually work for me during childbirth!