Remember, it's a marathon, not a sprint

Monday night's bootcamp was a real bootcamp ladies and gents, boys and girls.  I met Hanna.... Hanna is a Swedish beauty, typical Swedish beauty, 6ft, legs to her neck, lovely attitude but bags and bags of energy!!!! Yep, this one was a live wire in the exercise stakes people.  You would imagine after 6 weeks of doing Bootcamp that I would be prepared for anything, be able to complete any task, be able to manage warm up without the feeling of lungs dropping and vomit rising!!!! You would think wouldn't you

So, Hanna, leggy Hanna, loves to run and run and run and run!!!! Man, herself and Paula definietely must have trained in the army..... Enthusiastically, Hanna said 'lets warm up de bawdies'..... Ok, so, warm up is, I suppose, not meant to be easy but seriously, I feel like I've done my exercises when I've done the warm up and Hanna's warm up was feckin' tough.  Lots of jumping, running, jumping, squating and sprinting (eh, holy jaysus!!!! spontaneous combustion).  Then, enthusiastically Hanna says 'ok, letchs get schtarted' (seriously, have we not just done the flippin class mate!!!).

Cones in place (about 10 I think).... Red and blue ones opposite each other but what we had to do was work across each line... so first up was jogging to the first cone, sprint to the next, jog to the next, sprint to the next .... second up was jog, sprint, jog etc...but you had to chase the girl in front of you and try to catch her when we were sprinting.... then she made us crawl like crabs to each cone (seriously, in full view of traffic and buses ... the shame of it all lads, wouldn't mind so much if I had an ass like hers but jaysus, not a pretty sight for the people of Kilbogget Park).... then it was run to the cone, 3 press ups, run to the next, 3 sit ups.... then there was a side squat to each cone (imagine a sumo wrestler stance or like you're about to do the Hakka....yep, not really pretty is it)

So, no lungs left whatsoever she explained that we going to do a tree run - run to the first tree in the park, sprint to the next, run to the next, sprint to the next one and so on and then back to the where we began (ok, so, this is fine if the trees are evenly spaced but right bang in the middle, on a sprint run, I notice that there are about 3 trees missing and so the 'sprint' was actually the run of a dying woman).... I made it back but had to stop at the bottom and walk for a few tree's but then ran back to the start..... N O  B R E A T H  L E F T

She then, enthusiastically as ever, told us we were going to 'work de abs' and then do some 'pressh upsh'.... she said this was a nice cool down exercise (riiiiiight) but we'd actually do a cool down jog after it ..... ok, which dictionary says jogging is cooling down because it needs to be rewritten!!!! She had brought Medicine Balls with her aswell - thank the lord she didn't get time to use them, holy god!!!!

So, that was my introduction to gorgeous Hanna.... Sergeant Major Hanna

Still concentrating on my diet, protein shakes and fat burners have been purchased so it's focus time guys and gals....

Remember, it's a marathon, not a sprint!!!! Very true and wise words which I shall take to heart and use as my motivation :0)