Well, another day bites the dust. Thank goodness because that makes my countdown that much smaller. We started out the day by going on our morning walk by the lighthouse. I have been working myself into a wog for some of it. For those of you not familiar with a wog it is a mix between a walk and a jog. Too slow for others to really know you are jogging, but fast enough for your lungs to scream out in pain after too much of it. My goal has been to run up the hills for the past two weeks. Today I started to run more intervals and walk and wog the entire way. It is a start for me:) Then we had our pool workout and breakfast. As a fun surprise we went to the ballroom for some cardio. We did some Indian runs. For those of you not sure what this is we get in a line and walk while passing a medicine ball over our heads to the person behind us and then the last person in lines runs it to the front and we continue while walking around the resort complex. I am sure people watching us got a pretty good laugh. Then we ran some stairs and did some crazy relay races. We even had to do a relay race where we had to bear crawl. The bear crawl is where you walk with your hands and feet on the ground and butt high in the air. That had to be a pretty funny sight too. Our trainer, Leif, likes to come up with new evil exercises for us to do. We think that he dreams them up in his nightmares and last night must have been quite the nightmare because he made us do "Devil Boy Terrors", (that is what Jenn named them because we call Leif Devil Boy). We had to get in the plank position (on our hands and feet with knees off the ground) and push a 20lb weight while trying to maneuver our bodies forward. It was CRAZY!!
This afternoon we went on a hike at the Tettegouche. I want you to know that the first 2 weeks I was here I despised hiking. Everyone told us how beautiful the scenery was and all I said is "I can see that in a picture." I hated hiking!! Don't tell my trainers here, but I am starting to see why people like hiking. It is still exhausting, but I am not keeling over wanting to die so I am able to take in a little bit of the nature around me. Today we went up to the High Falls at the Tettegouche and saw a beautiful waterfall with a rainbow. Then we decided to hike down to the bottom of the high falls to see if we could find the gold at then end of the rainbow. What do you know, there was no gold at the end of the rainbow so we had to go all the way back up the stairs to keep hiking. My legs were not happy with me. Then we went to the two step falls. Let me tell you they should rename that trail to the 200 step falls because that is about how many steps we climbed to see them. It was a muddy, wet walk with a lot of stairs, but I survived. I will post pictures later.
Can't wait til tomorrow is over because we are getting another massage. It is what gets me through the week. The thought of a massage. There are four of us going tomorrow our roommate, Camille, is coming too. Yes you read that right we have another Camille living with us. It is pretty crazy to have two Camille's in a group of only 11 women. She is AWESOME though and I love having her around!
Till tomorrow,
Camille and Nikky
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