Blue Hills

I went for a jog in the Blue Hills with a meet up group this morning.  I mean, it wasn't billed as a jog, but these people were crazy!  It was about a 4.5 mile hike, and we went up this tall hill, down, then we jogged a quarter of the way around it, then ran up it again.  Then, we went down, jogged off to another hill, ran up that, went down, circled around, and climbed the top bit again.  By the end I was exhausted!  It was really good exercise and I feel like I had my workout for the day.

Today it's supposed to get up to 60! It's officially spring, hooray!  I think the honeymoon phase has worn off at work, I'm realizing that this is where I work now, and starting to settle in.  There are definitely some pro's and con's, and a certain amount of culture shock. Well, it was time for a change, and change it is!

Also, very unappealing, but I have a fungus on my stomach that blooms whenever I do anything aerobic.  My doctor just gave me a cream for it, which will hopefully help.  Yuck!

Mount Watatic

Spring is coming!  Tonight we spring forward, and tomorrow the sun will start to set nice and late. It's shoulder season for hiking, time for me to get back into it!  I went on a meet up for a kind of short hike in MA, Mt Watatic.  The mountain is like a 2000 footer and the hike has less than 700 feet elevation gain.  So, you go up hill for sure, but it's not that hard.  There was one woman in the group who struggled on the way up (not me, yay!) so we took a lot of stops.  It was 3 miles and took 2 1/2 hours in the end.  After we went for lunch and I had a burger.  I don't think it was a calorie reducing event.

It was a perfect day out - bluebird sky, a chill in the air, but not so cold that I needed a winter jacket, just my ninja hoodie and a t-shirt.

A very amazing thing happened at work - my new supervisor had a meeting with the president of the college, who's an MD.  She reported that I'd started, a little about me, and that I had just finished my doctorate. The president said that she thought my dissertation sounded interesting and she'd like to read more!!!  My mind was blown.  My supervisor saw the 130 pages and sent the abstract. I hope she liked it. Heck, I hope she read it.

Didn't put the weights down!

Today was our first snow storm of the year, ish.  It was really only like 6 inches.  Pretty wimpy.  But, due to the timing there was no way for me to get out of the parking lot and to work - even though they opened at 10:30.  The plow didn't even come until like 9:30!  So, I worked from home, which is always nice.  Ha!  My former crazy boss would never have allowed that - I'm so lucky that I got another non-crazy boss.

After work I was feeling lazy and was thinking of just sitting on the couch and watching Everest (I'm on a big Everest kick after reading into thin air, which was really good), but I got my lazy butt off the couch and to yoga.  I'm digging the new yoga studio, O2, they do really long sequences where you do one side for like 30 minutes and then the other side for 30 minutes.  It felt good :)

Last week I went to a barre class and I was actually able to hold the stupid weights up for the entire arm series!  2 pound weights, but whatever, I was psyched!  I did all of the exercises except one that was just really hard for me - it was basically warrior 3, which for some reason I can't do.  Anyhow, I think the working out is helping because I climbed at metro and finally got up a 10b clean again!