Today was a real "life in the city" day - it's been so long, it was amazing! Since I'm working from home I was able to meet a friend during lunch hour and we worked out in the school playground across the street. In class on Sunday we did cartwheels, and then cartwheels over things, and I could kind of do them. So I figured if I worked on it, I would really be able to do them, and they're a bit flashy. And I want some flash! My cartwheels are improving, mostly on one side. It's harder to do the over things bit - I can do them over the curb, but a tree stump or trunk is harder. The shorter distance down throws off my momentum. The best part was that after we worked out I had my one-on-one with my boss and my hair was a mess and I was in my sweats and I was like "sorry, just got outside over lunch" and she was like "that's awesome!"
After work I went to the evening parkour, the one with running. We had a shorter run today - according to map my run it was .56 mile and according to my watch we started at 5:43 and arrived at the park at 5:50. We did have to stop and wait at lights a couple times, and we also got caught on narrow Cambridge sidewalks. It was a lovely run, though, because it was downhill.
One of the coaches was with the last person in the class and they got way behind, and then took a wrong turn and thought they were going to another park. Anyhow, he was gone for ages and was pissed when he arrived. While we waited, we practiced front rolls in the park and I tried not to think about how many dogs had peed there. Once he got there, we practiced balance by walking on a fence that was waist high and about an inch and a half wide. For some reason everyone else was just strolling around, including two women who were taking their first class. I was nervous and jumped down several times (doing a roll though - totally aced the roll). As we were working on balancing, I noticed these guys on bikes with sticks riding around on the tennis court next to the park and I was like "what the heck are they doing?" and it turned out that they were playing bicycle polo! It was pretty cool to watch, and I got distracted for a while. The sun was setting over the park and Charles River, I was practicing walking on a fence, and there were bike polo players. And that was my city moment for the week. I love Boston!
After, a friend and I went for ice cream. I got peanut butter with oreo cookies (to cancel the workouts I guess) and we sat in one of the Harvard quads. It was freezing out, so we only sat for a bit and then walked back to my car and I drove him home.
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