All aboard the hot mess express.

So, boot camp. There isn't much I can say other than that's the most I've laughed in that gym, EVER. Rebecca and I ran what we called "the hot mess express" and picked up natalie,jen-jen and Matt before we made our way to sweeten creek. Which, there were a ton of people at boot camp today. Like, I'd guess 10-12. The first one I went to,there were 4 of us. I mean, I brought Becky, Matt, Jen and Natalie, and Alyssa came too so we had a pretty fun group. To start things off, we went outside in to the Arctic air,and stretched,then we did what I'm now referring to as "the dumpster run" or TDR for short. Not only was it colder than all get out, I hate running/in the cold. We did it twice -________- that's my unhappy face. Running downhill is 100x harder for me than uphill and I. don't. know. why. Alyssa called me out for "flipping" but you do what you gotta do. I didn't need to die in the first 3 minutes of boot camp. Then we went inside where the real fun began.

There were 5 stations I think, body weight rows, goblet squats (picture me with the finger gun to my head), push ups, bridges and push and presses. I partnered up with Matt and we started with the push and press, which, big mistake. My shoulders still hurt from Thursdays ridiculousness. I made Matt take the 12s the first time, because I'm a terrible friend. Matt looked at me during the first 30 seconds and said "this isn't so bad" and I said, HA. just you wait. He didn't realize it was only like 15 seconds between sets. The second round of push and presses I took the 12s. 2lbs doesn't sound like that much, but it feels like 20 pounds after 5 or 6 reps. After the first round, I was feeling kind of okay. I wasn't like READY for round 2 but I guess I didn't get a choice. The second round was dicey. I think I did maybe 15 squats between 2 sets, because Matt beat me to the smallest kettlebell and we won't talk about my pushups. I'm OVER that whole "i want to do a real pushup" goal. over. it. Anyways, so after the 2nd round, I noticed it was only 9am and I was like uh SURELY not again. So, Darin being the kind soul that he is, actually took a vote on doing one more round of all that or ab exercises. No one voted to do a 3rd round. So we did CPRs, straight leg raises,flutter kicks, some kind of transverse crunches and these things where you sit up and hold your legs up and twist side to side. The flutter kicks almost did me in. 30 seconds is a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time. Natalie was cracking me up though. Especially at the end when we were streching and Darin turned on this crazy like, yoga-ish music and Natalie just looks up and goes "guys look! we made it to heaven!". I don't know why I thought that was so funny. I still kinda laugh.

Boot camp is much more fun when you have people like that with you. I think that was the most I've laughed in the gym, ever. I'm feeling kinda iffy about everything right now because I'm SO TIRED. I just need boot camp to be offered at like noon. Then I could get a lot more people to go with me haha. I feel like it should literally be like 7pm but it's not even noon at the time I'm writing this. I could lay down and go to sleep right here, right now. Hopefully I'll wake up tomorrow feeling fine, but I doubt that will happen.

A girl can dream though. At the bottom are pictures I find amusing, and a picture of one of the protein bars Darin gave me that I have yet to try because I'm a baby. Let's not judge. Also. I need water. I'm dying of thirst.