Boxing Begins

A few months back I made this brilliant agreement to take some boxing classes with Josh. Today was the day we finally stopped talking about boxing and actually went to a class. 6am class. yikes. I was very very nervous about this. I woke up at least once every hour last night. The class was challenging, to say the least. We started the class with a warm up, 6 minutes of jumping rope. (Yes I can run 13 miles, no I can not jump rope for 6 minutes.) Immediately reminded how out of shape I am! After struggling through jumping rope, it was time to learn stance and how to throw punches. Got to wear some  pink boxing gloves, yey! (sad I didn't get a picture of me in the gloves). Class was mainly punching the bag and adding cardio and strength training in occasionally. Constantly moving, no time to be slacking (I still managed to find time to slack a little bit). Did a couple minutes of step-ups, Spider-Man's, burpees, and push-ups staggered with bag work. I have ZERO upper body strength, all my strength is in my legs. Therefore, everything this morning was HARD!! I say that, but we ended the class with running, so not everything was hard. I was a little tired, seeing as we had been working out for 50 minutes by that point, but I was defiantly more in my element running. It isn't even 24 hours after the boxing class and I am already sore. Very very sore!!



Luke and I worn out after our run



After the boxing class was finished (7am), I decided that I still needed to stick to my running schedule. So I stole Luke from Josh and we went on a run. I was scheduled to run 3 miles but my run keeper kept pausing and messing up. Not exactly sure how far or how slow (I was worn out so it was a very slow run). And since I had done some running at boxing I decided to not stress about my run keeper hitting 3 miles (I typically will make sure it says the exact distance I was to run for that day, one of my little OCD habits). However I am a total dork and wanted to know exactly how far I ran today so I mapped the runs (boxing and my normal run). Ran .68 miles at boxing and 2.5 miles on my run with Luke. Putting me almost .2 over the 3 miles I needed for the day. 

Love starting the day by working out. It's going to take a little getting to use to but I think my morning runs will be back this time around. Goal is to go to boxing class 3 times a week, just 2 more this week (Wednesday and Friday). Tomorrow will be an easy day, just strength training. Thinking I will do the core pyramid again. Wednesday and Thursday are 4 mile runs and Saturday is a 40 minute run. This week is off to a great start!