Tumbling tonight was the most insane experience of my life. Mike showed up and everything seemed normal. He said 2 suicide runs and find a spot to jog in place. So I did and he came out and start barking out orders like hit the deck and mountain climbers, pushups, bronches, hit the deck, mountain climbers, sumo squats, frog jumps, hit the deck, jog it out was mixed in there too with high knees, jumping jacks and toe touches. Basically it was the most disgusting feeling pain inflicting conditioning known to man kind and it only took 10 minutes. It's called 30 second strength. You do each exercise for 30 seconds at a time and it is absolute hell. I started crying at probably half way or a little over and didn't stop until well after I was done. Mike was up in my face saying don't you dare give up. Don't you quit! Are you going to quit? Answer me! Like straight up military. After that all I had to do was 15 handsprings. Mike said I'm not planning on them being pretty. I know you're going to suck but it's about doing them and making the changes even though you're tired and in pain. For the first 7 he said nothing and told me to make the changes. After that he started coaching. After the final handspring he walked away and said handspring. After the shock that my body and mind had gone through I finally broke down. I wanted to just throw it but I couldn't feel anything. He came over to the mat while I was crying and held my face in his hands and said you know that I'm pissing you off and it's making you want to do it that much more. Are you going to suck it up and commit to this trick? Can you do this. I kept saying yes and I don't know. And he was still in my face saying I don't know is not an answer. You have this trick. You can do this and I am not here to let you get hurt. So he stood there on the opposite side of where he usually does and I did it, and then one more. He grabbed me in the biggest hug and I just cried some more. He said I love you so much and I hate being a dick. I had to laugh. He said you just finished that conditioning and then did 15 handsprings by yourself. How do you feel? I said give me 5 minutes and I'll let you know. A minute later I looked at him and said I feel like a complete bad ass and he laughed and said that's exactly what you should feel like. So I'm going to say that today was a 6 on a scale of 1-5. It was such a crazy feeling of fear and raw drive and desire. It was just me and mike. Mom was out there but it was like she just didn't exist. It was just me and mike. I'm already sore and can't imagine how I'm going to feel in the morning. lol.
Dr. Kays sent me a really cool e-mail today about running your own race. it was about not puffing yourself about when you're faster than someone else or feeling inferior when someone is faster than you. Everyone is running a completely different race in a different directions at a different pace for different reasons. I thought that was a really cool thought.
Mom and Jess and Josh and I went dorm/school shopping today! YAY!!! Everything is nicely coordinated! we even have rugs! My roommate is really cool from the 2 conversations we've had so far. My sheets are hot pink and my comfortor and pillows are black with these elegant modern white circles on them so at first glance it looks simple in sophisticated but underneath it's fun and colorful! We have bathroom accessories and storage and now all we need is curtains and a few more storage things. And a fridge and TV
So today was a super fabulous day and it's 1 week from today I get to see Corey!
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