25-Week Fitness Challenge: Week 18, Day 122

I practice Iyengar yoga, and it is such a pleasing way to begin the day. I think of all the things I have done in an effort to grow as a person, doing yoga has been one of the most beneficial to my personality. It is very calming and soothing to my soul. As recently as last year I would have described myself as a naturally nervous, anxious person; easily flustered and even high strung. Now I have come to realize that there in nothing 'natural' about these characteristics at all within myself, they are the result of learned coping skills from childhood that became habitual. I feel now that I am 'naturally' a person who is calm, slow to anger, and easy-going. I have learned to be, in large part because I choose to dedicate a half hour of my morning to yoga. Oh yeah and there's the physical benefit of being more limber and leaner. Weighed in this morning at 159 pounds even.

Today is a running day and it went well, I shaved 9 seconds off my last time. It took me 13 minutes and 51 seconds to run one mile. Still nearly two minutes over my walking speed, but it's progress. S-bop forgot his lunch so I decided to bike to his school as fast as I could to get an extra workout in. It's a mile and a half away from the house so that's 3 miles in total (coming and going) I biked today. I was thinking about going to Spinning class tonight but since I got 3 miles of biking in, I may just stay home and do some writing.

Today's Goals:
30 minutes yoga
Run one mile (time today 13 minutes 51 seconds)
Bike 3 miles
120 oz. water
One serving meals, no seconds
Raw veggies for snacks
Raw fruit for dessert
Bedtime when sleepy/Wakeup 5am
Weightloss so far - 51 pounds
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