I took Monday off for recovery, spending 16-17 hours exercising over 2 days take a huge toll on your body.

My youngest was in a soccer tournament and they had their last game, so we went to watch that. After the team went to Dairy Queen for their lunch and to have ice cream. We were also starving, have to say Dairy Queen is the WORST place to go to if you are trying to eat well. I ordered a salad with grilled chicken breast, you get a whole head of iceberg lettuce (yuck), couple of slices of tomato and about 1 oz of chicken. The salad was all brown and wilting. It took it back but all of the salads they had there were the same, so i went hungry.

My daughters ordered the chicken strips, and no fries. The options there are so limited. But when you are in a big group you just try to make the best choices. Needless to say we all left there hungry!

My quads are so fried from the weekend, the rest of my body is doing great, the hands are healing and the bruises are changing colour!

This morning i decided that I needed to run in the hope that it will help my legs recover. I ran a very very slow 5.5mph for 30 minutes, and then went and worked on my windmills with the kettlebell, and finished up with 30 minutes of dynamic stretching and foam rollering.

Tomorrow I go to have a small surgery and just like in the summer I will be unable to work out for 3 weeks. I will listen to the Docs this time and not push myself back too soon, but I will also make them define what they mean by strenuous lifting and cardio. Not strenuous cardio to me is not doing intervals but running at 6-7 mph.

Even though I’m not allowed to workout, I will focus on my stretching to improve my joint mobility, and I will be getting walking in for sure. Its totally frustrating as I want to be working hard and really pushing my kettlebell workouts, I will be training Mal so at least Im keeping on top of what I have learnt this weekend.