today's exercise

Having stayed up too late last night, I did't get up on time to do a workout before work today (though, of course, I did my before-getting-out-of-bed situps). However, I had planned to meet E. for acroyoga at 12:30, so I figured at least I would get some exercise. As it turned out, I didn't actually check FB for messages till after 11:00, since I was at work and had plenty to do, but when I did I saw a message from 08:00 saying that she wound up having a conflict due to a class meeting, and would we do 14:30 instead? I told her "of course", and after a few minutes thought, decided that it would be smart to go to the gym over lunch anyway--I have not been doing the workouts that my trainer gives me on days that I am doing acroyoga, because it seems like enough, but actually, I need those workouts to develop the strength needed for acroyoga. So off I went.

The workouts have a series of warm-up exercises that are common to every day, and then, depending on if it is day one, two, or three, there is a set of exercises that one is meant to go through four different times. In just over 30 minutes I managed the warm up and two repeats of the exercises themselves for day one, and then was hungry, so I returned to my office and had some food and did more work.

Then I met E. and we did 50 minutes of acroyoga--we have a nice set of poses that flow well together that we hope to perform (accompanied by music from my second apprentice) at the feast in Reengarda in a couple of weeks, and we are getting much better at the more difficult transitions. (She is really strong--while I am hanging from her upraised feet like a bat, she is able to let go with one foot, put it on my hips, and push me up into lying horizontally on my side across her feet.)

After we were done she wanted to work out, so we did the other half of my day one workout, including more of the warmup stuff, and followed by some stretching.

By then it was nearly 16:30, so I returned to my office, ate some muesli, and started walking home. Since it was a bit cool for how I was dressed (only a really light sweater under the coat, when I could have done with a medium one, since it is -10 today) jogged part of the way home, for three long stretches. I only went most of the way home, and then it was convenient for lord_kjar to pick me up and take me the rest of the way.

After a bit of time with a book and a bowl of popcorn I shoveled a bit more snow, and then curled up with the computer.

Tomorrow we plan to unload C's stuff from the trailer, now that it has arrived, and drive down for the Umeå folk festival in the evening.