Dead lift doom...

I should have mentioned earlier, but yesterday I stood on my head! Not as in unscrewed bonce and placed foot on it, but actually up-side-down with my toes in the air - all for a few seconds - but it felt great! I don't just DO this sort of thing (unless I've had too much to drink at a barbecue in which even I will undoubtedly show off my enduring ability to turn cartwheels - except that this only achieves acute embarrassment for those who aren't plastered) it took place during a Yoga lesson. When I'd done it the instructor said, laughing (at least, I hope she was!) "I've been trying to do that all week, you can't just come in here and just do it!!" I was so ruddy chuffed with myself that I grinned like a Cheshire cat for the rest of the session. I hasten to add at this point, I am NO yoga guru. I'm absolutely hopeless at balancing on one leg or anything else along those lines. I must just have a very strong head!

Anyway, as it often the case it came back to bite me in the ass this morning. Lara and I turned up at our SRT (studio resistance training - or weight lifting, to you) session only to discover that, because we have to take our little guys to school first, all the "best" places had gone. We managed to shimmy a bench for her somewhere near the back, but I had to go RIGHT AT THE FRONT!!! This, as any self-respecting school student knows, is a disaster as EVERYONE including the instructor can see what you're doing. No sneaky rests when it gets a bit too much. Worst of all my pitch was right next to the full length mirror. I was just mighty relieved that, being a short arse, the barre ran right across the middle of my reflection - just about at the squishy belly level. I pumped iron (plastic filled with sand) for an hour straight and actually felt a bit queasy afterwards. I sweated buckets too and then... hey, hey!!... THEN I went to the allotment and dug four kilos of potatoes!!!

Leo and I snuggled on the sofa this afternoon. Put "Stripes" in the DVD player and fell fast asleep. Aaaahhhh...