Day Six: Nobody Likes a Keener.

I remember a time when a 100% success rate was considered excellent work by anyone's standard. Well done you. Gold star. So imagine my chagrin when I go to put my check mark next to my name today - 6 classes in 6 days - thank you very much, don't mind if I do...and a bunch of keeners in The Challenge have got 9 check marks!! NINE!!! What the WHAT?! Are you kidding me?! Who the heck has time - not to mention the energy - to go to hot yoga NINE TIMES in 6 days?? Even the instructors don't go that much. You have got to be kidding me. It's all I can do to keep up with my gross, wet, stinky yoga laundry and these people...well these people must not hold down jobs. And not to mention, you've got to let yourself air out a bit. These people are showing off and I hope they get yeast infections!! So there.

And not to be a dog with a bone here, but why set a numeric goal at all? Why not just keep going constantly until the 30 days is up and then tack on another week for good measure. Let's just do hot yoga until we boil.  I was incensed! Seriously. I laid on my mat just being furious and - it pains me to admit this - trying to figure out a way to up the ante. I certainly don't have time to go to yoga twice a day, so I've decided to proceed through the rest of The Challenge wearing Charlene Prickett Flex Weights.

Well, the zen must have taken over because once the class started all was right in the world again. I can't stay mad at my fellow challengers:)

So for those of you who know me well, you know that I have issues with my hearing. And in hot yoga it's all very calm and tranquil and QUIET. For me it sounds like the instructor is talking, but I'm under water. So I really have to depend on watching what others are doing to keep up in the class. Of course the more familiar I get with yoga, the easier it is. But there for sure are times when we're supposed be holding a pose with our eyes closed and I'm totally peeking to see what's going to happen next. This works for the most part pretty well but I'm sure everyone thinks I'm being shifty.

Where I do miss out though is during the meditation part...or because I can't hear any of it...I call it "The Napping". I can't relax because I don't know what we're supposed to be thinking about. Am I supposed to be relaxing my jaw or pretending I'm a dolphin? And my biggest worry of all is that I'm going to fall asleep, class will be over, everyone will leave and they will be mopping around me - snoring away.

Instead of the meditation part at the end, what I think we should do is form a long back-tickling train. I think I would find that very relaxing. Or we could pretend to crack eggs on each other's heads. Again...very calming.

I had an awesome breakthrough today. There's this one pose where you stand with your legs really wide and then bend down to the floor and hang upside down for a while. Well, I can nearly put my head on the floor! The girl beside me - we'll call her Tapanga from Boy Meets World - nearly did it too, and we gave each silent mental high fives. There should be more high-fiving in yoga.

Goodnight all.

Justy

xo