shybil sol dates Aug 21 to Aug 27

This was a good week and a bad week.
Good week because the Kama form is coming around.
Bad week because my on-call rotation came up at work and I couldn't attend some classes.
On Saturday, we did a 3.2 mile run which, while I didn't break any speed records, I completed without stoppage. Maybe my runs during the week are longer than I'm calculating.
On Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, I've ran from my house to the newly finished track at Reed and ran 6 laps around there. Nice cushion. No knee pain, etc.
My diet is pretty good, but Friday, my co-workers and myself went to a bbq place for lunch. I paid the price for this deviation. Unbelievable how lethargic you get when you are eating fairly healthy and then indulge in what used to be normal eating.
Numbers for the week:
M: 150 pushups; 2 mile run; 150+ stomach
T: 15 mile bike ride; 150 pushups; 2 mile run; 150 + stomach
W:  150 pushups; 2 mile run; 150+ stomach
Th: 15 mile bike ride; 150 pushups; 2 mile run; 150 + stomach
F:  15 mile bike ride; 150 pushups; 2 mile run; 150 + stomach
Sunday: lazy 25 mile bike ride

shybil sol dates Aug14 to Aug 21

So I've got the moves for the jiu jitsu pattern, I just need to put it into some sort of sequence. Good week with Sonny as he demonstrated three moves that are part of my pattern. The stand up sequence keeps changing as I find that what works when striking air, doesn't really work with the pad holder. Kama form, I know that Kelly showed me the out-in-out spin, but if I can't get the sequence smooth I'll just stick with an outer spin. I'm toying with some other moves.

Saturday was special training with sprints. I think I was sprinting, and i'm pretty sore and tired today. I did a small bike ride of 20 miles and that was enough for a rest day.
Pretty much M-F I hit the 150 pushup, 150 ab reps mark along with a lot of time in the pool. Due to an injury last week, I didn't get the runs in until Wednesday, but naturally got the 15 miles biking on M&Tu. Th&F ended up with doing both biking and running.

Janice August 8-12

This past week was a good week! After a couple days of recovery from nutrition deficiencies, I felt a lot stronger coming out of the previous week. We have begun our Krav Maga training on Monday’s, which I am enjoying, since this was something I attempted to focus on for about a year. And now for the big news… I got a couple stripes on my Jiujitsu belt! As some of you know, I have a love/hate relationship with Jiujitsu. I started going back to this class, after a couple years of what we will call... “sabbatical”. I am enjoying the women’s class a lot more than the classes I had been taking back in the day. I can’t say I loooooove jiujitsu, but it sure does challenge me and breaks me out of my comfort zone of being on my feet.

So lets discuss numbers… here they are for the week

Monday

150 sit ups

150 pull/push ups

1 mile run

Krav Maga (1 hour)

Tuesday

150 sit ups

150 pull/push ups

3 mile run

Jiujitsu class

Wednesday

150 sit ups

150 pull/push ups

2 mile run

Stick training (1 hour)

Fitness class

Thursday

150 sit ups

150 pull/push ups

3 mile run

Jiujitsu class

Friday

LOTS AND LOTS of sit ups (to many to count)

150+ pull/push ups

1 mile run

May Thai boxing (1 hour)

Fitness class

Shybil Sol Dates Aug 8 to Aug 13

So the previous weekend was the survival training which had some lingering fatigue.
Monday felt fine on a 2+ mile run and the 150 pushup/situp.
Tuesday rode 15 miles, but the pushup count went down to 130. Tuesdays is more of a focus on jiujitsu with Sonny. So far, this has been a good learning class and has been enjoyable.
Wednesday ran 2+ miles and got the push count to 150 but man, am I tired. Tried out my kama form in front of BKJN Andrew and John. Some good pointers given along with an exercise for spins.
Thursday, rode 15 miles, plus a 1 mile run. Again more of the focus on jiujitsu. I found I'm not getting so tired as I was in previous years. This may be due to more of a focus on relax and roll. If you get in a bad position, Tap, then figure out why.
Friday, rode 30+ miles. It took me 30 minutes to get thru 150 pushups and situps.
Saturday special training. Just when I started feeling good, calf strain. Man, I hate these nagging injuries. I may have to do some things south paw for my stand routine.

Week totals - 600 pushups, 800 situp equivalents.

Janice August 1-7

This week was a very fun yet physically and mentally strenuous week. As a team, we all took part in a 2.5 day survival training course. This course was packed full of hands on education that I would have never learned from watching a YouTube Video. I really enjoyed the entire experience minus a couple of incidents that were tough on me. Not only did the course better prepare me if I were to ever find myself in that situation, but it gave me the sense of what happens to my body and mind when put in that situation. What I loved most about the journey was spending it with my team. I wouldn’t want to survive on my own, for one, I didn’t have wet wipes and everyone else did and two, I believe we all possess powerful minds, spirit and tenacity. Would I do it all over again… in a heart beat… minus the… well… you know. It was an opportunity that I am so thankful to have been a part of!

My numbers for the week:

Monday

150 pull/push ups

150+ sit ups

2 mile run

Fitness class

Tuesday 

150 pull/push ups

150 sit ups

2 mile run

Jiujitsu training

Wednesday

150 pull/push ups

150 sit ups

3 mile run

Forms practice with Kelley

Thursday

150 push/pull ups

150 sit ups

2 mile run

Jujitsu

hoola-hooping my heart out... which should count since it threw my back out! 

It’s THAT hard. And yes, I looked ridiculous.

Friday

Survival training

4.5 mile hike + 2 miles walking around in the woods

Saturday 

Survival training

According to my health app we hiked 6 miles

Sunday

4.5 mile Hike

TOTALS

600 Pull/Push ups

600+ sit ups

24 miles!

Shybil Sol Dates Aug 1 to Aug 7

Dose of reality. The end of this weeks training culminated with survival training. The setting was simply have the bare essentials consisting of knife, 550 cord, a few layered clothing, and a sleeping bag. While the concepts of building a shelter, making fire, setting snares, etc. were very educational, the physical follow through of each was very fatiguing. You might think this was where the mental part of the experience came in. No. You just had to pace yourself to your ability to follow through. Where the mental piece came into play, was the realization that if you are hungry, there was not ice chest or refrigerator or convenience store to satisfy the pangs. You had to start telling yourself that if you want to eat you have to hunt. Primitive instincts? Yes. Reality? This mindset does not occur overnight. While the course was two nights and roughly three days, my feeling was that it would take more time to get out of the mindset of modern society's comforts to real survival mode. This was a very humbling experience as in just this short amount of time, you realize how many of our living comforts are taken for granted. If I was to have been put into a survival situation without this course, I would surely have perished. With this course, I now would have a better chance of survival. But, this is part of the learning experience. Forget what you see on tv. You have to actually experience the situation in order to fully grasp all the subtleties that will break you down to a lower level on the food chain. I can't remember any other experience that drained me more physically and mentally in such a short amount of time. I do know that I will have a very different look on modern life's conveniences and whether its really worth having such.

Today's run at first seemed easier since I'm probably a few pound lighter. But I only got close to the two mile mark before the weekends repercussions hit.
For the week, without the two days at the end, got in 600 pushups, 600 stomachs, 50 miles bike, an avg. of two miles on 3 days.