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Hi, guys! How was your weekend? I hope you were able to get outside and play at some point.

Betasso Preserve, Boulder, Colorado

Friday night I went wine tasting with my friend Katie, and then she and her hubby came over for some wine and Euchre at our place. The girls kicked the boys’ booty, as usual  

I love having such good friends that are also neighbors. Right now, four of our best friends live within 2 minutes of walking distance. Unfortunately, that won’t last forever, since several of us are house hunting, but I’m going to enjoy every minute of it for now!

Saturday morning started out pretty lazily, until Shane and I decided to head over to Betasso Preserve for a little trail running. We intended to run 4.5 miles, but accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up running 6.5 miles. Oops!

At least the entire route provided views like this. Not too shabby

On Sunday, I shopped.

Lululemon took my absolute favorite pant (the Grooves) and made a skinny pant version. Swoon. I also snagged that run swiftly tank (on sale – score!) I’ve been making a big effort to wear real people clothes – aka not spandex – when I’m not physically in the gym or working out. Naturally, I buy more spandex to make that effort harder on myself. So masochistic of me.

I also had a morning client to train beforehand, and before that, I got in a lifting sesh. Just some squats, incline press, glute bridge variations and the like. I hardly ever work out both days in the weekend, so I’ll have to make sure I schedule in a rest day during the week at some point. I imagine it’ll probably look a little like this:

Monday: trail run

Tuesday: teach spin + lift

Wednesday: trail run or rest

Thursday: teach spin + lift

Friday: rest or trail run

I’ve been loving all of my workouts lately, so it’s been a conscious effort to schedule in that rest day, which is so important, too. It’s important not to get too caught up in being rigorous and strict about a workout schedule to me. Sometimes things get in the way, opportunities present themselves, and life happens, and we have to roll with the flow so that we don’t get under taken by current.

I’ve been doing a little soul searching lately, and thusly I’ve been looking at life a little different lately. My chats with God – and to others about God (and life)-  have been more frequent, and what I’ve most recently learned is that every single moment is a moment that’s supposed to be, and should be looked at as an opportunity.

With anything from thoughts that pop into my head, phone calls I get from people, favors I get asked, to even random interruptions from strangers, I’ve been looking at them from the point of view that God arranged for it to be present in my life for a reason.

If I’m in the middle of a workout and I get interrupted by someone, instead of immediately thinking about them taking up my time and interrupting my workout, I’m trying to think about how many things in the universe  had to happen for that moment to occur. Instead of looking at these occurrences as annoyances, I want to look at them as opportunities. Perhaps all that person needed was a friendly reply and a smile, and I could have given it to them. That person was put right in front of me, interrupting my workout, for one reason or another. My first instinct would probably be to point to my headphones and shake my head (I can’t hear ya buddy!) Luckily we don’t have to act on first instincts, haha. 

As my friend put it to me the other day, who am I to think that I know how the universe should be more than the universe itself? I have no business trying to make it anything else than what it is.

As someone who definitely has some control and competitiveness issues, realizing this notion is like breathing out a great, big sigh of relief. It’s just not always so easy to remember to do

I’m sitting here writing this post right now, and that’s where I should be, and what I should be doing right now, because it’s what I am doing right now. In the words of Byron Katie, when we fight with reality, we lose, but only 100% of the time.

Make sense? No? Good. It doesn’t have to.

Thoughts?

How introspective are you about the minutiae of day to day life?

Do you feel more introspective at some times than others?

Do you tend to be a bit of a control freak?

And on the weekend-front…

How was your weekend? Did you get to play outside at all?

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