The lovely Miranda!

Another chance to snap an outside blip with the early escape from the Coalface. I am so looking forward to the lighter nights and mornings coming in. I have to say a big thank you to her for getting me out and about cycling in the winter. Some mornings it would be much easier to jump in the car but I know that I can, if I really want to, get to where I need to be in 20 minutes so not really that far. I more often than not take a longer route but in real inclement weather, I do take the as the crow flies route

Back to ViPR this morning for the first time before the Christmas break and boy was it tough. After 3 minute run round the hall to warm up we got stuck in. Basically we had 5 exercises done in a pyramid form -1: Clean and Press 2: Thread the needle, 3:Drags, 4:Squats and 5:Jumps over the ViPR. The exercise was done for 50 seconds and the rests were 30 seconds. So we did 1-rest; 1+2-rest, 1+2+3 -rest, 1+2+3+4- rest, 1+2+3+4+5-rest. We then did the last set of 5 again but for only 30 seconds. We rounded off with a wee circuit - rows, lunges and bashing the punch bag with the ViPR. Was a pretty intense class and fair wakes you up at 0615 in the morning. I am really starting to tune into this class - it is so different from the rest of the classes in which I particpate. It's only half an hour but it's as intense a half hour as you could possibly have