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Friday, February 3, 2017

Friday, February 3, 2017
Woke up at my usual 5:00am.  Got wonderful sleep last night so I'm feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day.  I'm going to hit my mat for my usual prayer/meditation and sweat it out.

Friday, February 3, 2017 (Part II)
Had a wonderful practice and realized that I hadn't done full upward bows for nearly a week!  I ended with a sequence of 3 upward bows/wheel poses to finish things out.  I'm happy to say that I did not regress at all in my backbending.

My forward bends have never been my crowing glory.  I push myself into them and put more effort into them but they're continually uncomfortable and, for lack of a better word, "un-fun".  Incorporating running into my practice has kept my legs/back strong but I have to continually counter-act the muscle growth/destruction that comes along with endurance running.  Long story short, I have to run and run (pun intended) to just stay in the same place.

Time to shower and tackle my day.  It is going to be fabulous.

Namaste

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