• +1 Minutes of Plank Pose

A triumphant return to the gym after more than a week with no workouts. Lots of Thanksgiving prep but also a destination wedding and a visit with a friend in town put the workouts in the bottom of the queue. But tonight a 40 minute run plus an hour of body pump. Bonus was carrying loads of Thanksgiving groceries! Tomorrow is turkey pick up!

• +3 Minutes of Plank Pose

Took Cari S's advice to increase my workouts so took an advanced yoga class with David Magone at Exhale. I had be at the front of the class because there was no other space! But I reminded myself that I've been doing yoga for more than 10 years AND if I don't TRY something harder, I will never be able to do it. So...it was good! It WAS a challenge and there were times I was dripping sweat and my heart was racing. Beautiful act was really trying all the hard poses and not taking the easy way out if I didn't have to!

• +2 Minutes of Plank Pose

Didn't have the best day yesterday, but seeing the devastation from NY and NJ am thankful for what I have, and sending my best thoughts to all of you for really making the best of it. My beautiful act was making a donation to the Red Cross-- I know it's small but hopefully lots of folks making small donations will start to make a difference. I was able to get a warm up run in before doing an hour Barre class. This was at my gym, not Exhale, and just wasn't as hard (the Exhale ones are KILLER).

• +3 Minutes of Plank Pose

Beautiful act was buying trail mix for the trick or treaters, even though in the end no one came to my door. Sub in yoga, but I liked her-- it was actually very relaxing but also she had us do some ab work and several lunges.

• +3 Minutes of Plank Pose

Felt good to get back to the gym, even though being homebound for only an afternoon isn't so bad. I did a warm up run for just about 16 minutes, then went to 30 minutes of strength training. Followed that with about 10 minutes of stretching and some yoga poses. I made pumpkin gnocchi for dinner and my beautiful act was painting my nails orange and yellow, like candy corn :)

• +1 Minutes of Plank Pose

Tom suggested we work out in the building gym together again, so I ran and he used the elliptical. After that I did a bunch of stretches and situps and planks. Beautiful act was cooking soup together!

• +3 Minutes of Plank Pose

Only just had time to check the trick or treat-- fortunately climbed 8 flights of stairs today. Unfortunately was hardly outside. Beautiful act was seeing a lovely sunrise over the reflecting pool. Thighs and glutes at Exhale. My legs were shaking it was so hard!

• +1 Minutes of Plank Pose

Yoga at Exhale last night-- both invigorating and SUPER relaxing. My beautiful act is really finding relaxing peace in savassana.

• +3 Minutes of Plank Pose

Usually I feel refreshed Monday and ready to go, but maybe I just didn't quite get enough rest over the weekend. So my beautiful act yesterday was calling it quits a bit earlier than usual and going to bed a bit earlier. But before that I did have a great workout. A 15 minute treadmill run followed by an hour of Body Pump. My dinner was a crazy mix of all the various veggies and beans in the fridge wrapped up in a wrap. It was interesting.

• +0.5 Minutes of Plank Pose

Got in an unexpected workout when my boyfriend suggested going to the building gym. I ran and he used the elliptical for about 35 minutes, then I completed a full workout with stretching, crunches, plank, donkey kicks and foam rolling. Beautiful act was using the most of the pretty fall day and getting a late season grill in :) Lots of veggies!