Mountain Girl

Hello mountains!

How weird does it feel to fly somewhere without a return ticket 'home'?  Let me tell you....   it is an odd feeling after 7 years.  I am so not used to LIVING in Calgary.  Toronto oddly enough I got extremely used to.  One does that whole adjusting thing.

Back to a readjusting and relearning how to be a Calgary girl on a BUDGET.

Obviously fitness is extremely important to me.  Blogs for me have always seemed to focus around training and weight loss.  Thanks to a broken heart I'm pretty happy where I am weight wise (take THAT revenge sexy body).  My main interest is rediscovering this beautiful city in a way that doubles as a gym.

I LOVE the gym - don't get me wrong... but hello ?!  I am lucky enough to have the mountains pretty much at my fingertips and i have trails that have hills and rocks to jump on so why the hell not give it a year of purely playing outside to keep up my goals.

I do still have a half marathon on the back burner thanks to a certain Nashville girl also making her way home eventually.... so running will be on my radar.

So what has gone on so far you ask?  WELL let me tell you about it.

Crowfoot Hot Yoga has a great deal (bonjour budget) where for your first week of classes you can sign up UNLIMITED for only $25.00.  A drop in class by itself is $18.00.  BOOM instant motivation.  I bought the week pass on Wednesday - attending class Wednesday and Thursday night and hope to get in at least two more classes before Wednesday rolls around again.  I want to get those classes under $10.00 a class... built in motivation.

I did not take Friday off!  NO WAY.  Friday I ran a 7k route around Scene Acres during sunset.  Watching the sunset behind the mountains is something you can't watch on a treadmill people!!

Today I have two options.....  I want to run again because although decent distance wise - my run last night felt pretty sucky.  Running altitude always seems to hit me on that first run back in the mountains. I want to give it a second go this morning and hit up either a nice hilly route in Silver Springs or a familiar 8k route in Confederation Park.

BOOM.