We sat in on another class at Art Sports today.

There was a mixed age class with one coach because two of the other coaches were out sick or unexpectedly out of town.

So, Zevan didn’t get as much attention from the coach (there were 9 kids!), but I walked Zevan through all the exercises (he was shy about doing them, although he found Mr. Joshua quite funny and engaging with this enthusiastic description of the stretches/exercises/positions).

This class was structured much differently, probably because the older kids were there. After the circle of stretches/exercises/positions, we “airplane-walked” over to the obstacle course area, and Zevan made some really cute attempts at donkey kicks over the big mats.

He also got to run and get on a trampoline/cushion type apparatus and bounce, go around the doughnut and come down the stairs.

After a water fountain break (he is getting better at using it, but still could use a taller stepstool), we airplane walked over to the next obstacle course, backwards roll off of the mats. I wasn’t sure if he would do it, since he still refuses to do forward rolls, but somehow, he was very interested in doing these.

Basically, you lay on a foam block, with your head hanging off, reach your hands over your head and scoot until your hands touch the ground. Then you kick your legs over. Voila! Backwards roll! He did all the foam block ones, (we skipped the wedges, as they were “advanced”) and he bounced down the trampoline track and attempted a backwards roll on the giant wedge. He ran that circuit 3 times. I was VERY proud of him. Lastly, he did trampoline work. He even made attempts to do the seat drops, and dog bounces. Again, super cute (yes, I’m biased). At the end, he sat on the bench and got his hands stamped like the other kids.

Next week the session will actually start, so these intro classes are a good warm up, I think. If the coaches let me stay with him for the next couple of weeks, I think he could actually eventually go it alone. We’ll see…

Bee beep, bee beep, bee beep

That was the sound of my Palm Pilot waking me up at 5:55 AM.

Bleary-eyed, I walked upstairs, plopped in front of my computer, and logged into www.active.com on the first Firefox tab. I had 9 other Firefox tabs preloaded with the correct URL. Enter. Servers busy. Enter. Servers busy. Enter. Register online.

Oh crap! I see the May is online – as I fill out the registration, I IM her “I’m in!”

“I’m not” she replies.

I slow down briefly as I type, not wanting to run this damn thing by myself. I go through the registration form, even do a quick 3 sentence story about why I am running the Ascent

I started running in 2005 at age 37. I want to run a marathon before I turn 40. See www.thehealthymom.com to see my training so far

Filling in billing information. Why didn’t I get my credit card out last night?!

As I wait for each successive screen, I am reloading my other tabs to see if I can get another registration form for May.

I get the “You have successfully registered” type message.

What? I’m in? Seriously? I IM May again, ” Do you want me and try and register for you?”

“No, I’m in. Brad’s still registering.”

Whew!

I’m going back to bed.

Even though I have to get up in 30 minutes to get Zander ready for school.

Sigh.

Did BWO+ this morning, followed by a .5 mile calibration run and a 45 minute, 4.01 mile run at the park.

Gorgeous weather today.

I am sore, sore, sore in the quads and my hips. Yowch!

I did do some trampoline jumping with the boys

So I get an email from May at 8:36 PM tonight:

My neighbor sort of talked me into doing the ascent — so do you want to do it too ? ? ? ? Register is tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. www.active.com.

Huh?! So, naturally, I will try and register tomorrow morning. It took me 40 minutes to even view the damn event page on Active.com and their servers already bogged down on the original registration day, so we’ll see what happens.

If I get in, and she doesn’t… well, let’s just say, I better believe that she tried!

No weight entry – I did the measurement at my mom’s house and jotted down on paper. I wasn’t near my scale.

It’s interesting to note the difference in how I felt measuring without my previous measurements in front of me.

Grandma & Grandpa Scott bought the boys a trampoline. Lolo helped me put the frame together on Sunday afternoon, and when the Jacksons came over for dinner on Sunday, Mike helped me put the rest of it together.

Then Zander, Zevan, and Misha got on the trampoline and jumped around for 10-15 minutes before we had dinner. I watched them and got choked up, about them growing up as friends and making these kinds of memories.

It’s so nice to have friends that you want to share times like this with. Life is good.

No workout today.

But I did put together the trampoline…

Just BWO+ today.