Day Two: I should have thought this through.

In hindsight, it probably would have been a better idea to build back a little bit of my yoga strength gradually - after taking three months off from any workout of any kind - before jumping into an intense 30 day challenge which doesn't allow for any rest days. My entire body is aching. Not quite that excruciating Body Pump pain where you can't even lower yourself to pee pain, but a mild all over ache. It feels like I have the flu. I ache in my arms, my armpits(!), my tummy, my arse, my legs, shoulders - even my actual boobs are aching! It's a good pain, but my boobs? Really?

So I'm a little worried because today's class was agony. I could barely hold poses I'm very used to and pretty good at for long at all. I was shaking and wobbling all over, and I think at one point I was even praying out loud for it to be over. Funnily enough, I had the best balance I've ever had.

It was choka in class today...so many people. Maybe that's why my balance was so good today - I was just propped up against my neighbour. Anyway, I'd just like to say, that if someone took off their Uggs and stuck their feet in my face on an airplane, I'd be incensed! Apparently in yoga it's just fine. It's a right of passage.

So that visitors to this blog may get a better understanding of how the Challenge is shaking down, I've developed a rating system for these classes in terms of difficulty. It's something I like to call the Barfing Scale. Here's how it works.

Barfing Scale:
1 - Surprisingly, no need to barf at all - neither during or after practice.
2 - I was pretty sure I wouldn't barf, but I was afraid to burp just in case it picked up a "hitchhiker".
3 - It was touch and go. I actually tried to remember if I had toothpaste in my gym bag.
4 - I had an "in my own head" conversation as to how I could barf and not be noticed. Maybe in my water bottle? Under the corner of my mat and cover it with a towel?
5 - I had to lay in child's pose for 20 mins of the class to stop the pounding in my head...when class was over I barfed next to my car...and then because of the delerium, squealed away into oncoming traffic like an oblivious maniac.*

Today's class was a 3 on the sliding Barfing Scale.

I need to do laundry tonight or my house is going to grow mold.

I am half considering going to an evening class so that I have a little extra time to recover from this morning. Not sure yet. Oh! And we don't get stars next to our names on the 30 Day Hot Yoga Challenge. We only get a check mark that we have to add ourselves!!! I thought there'd be more formal recognition and adulation than this. Maybe when everyone else is adding their lame check marks, I'll make mine a star. In permanent Sharpie!!

Here's to Day Three and having clean laundry!

Justy
xoxo

* Driving after hot yoga is more dangerous than driving after 3 gins. It's true. Or it feels true.