Happy Monday! This week I am happy to say I feel strong and ready to take on the world…hopefully no feeling sick or painful or any of that annoying stuff.

I am happily getting to the gym in the afternoon most days, and feeling like I have more to give to my training. I believe it is all the food in my body that is helping me push harder. But unfortunately, I can’t do afternoons every day of the week- but 3 out of 5 days is not so bad.

This week I am challenging myself to see if I can sneak in 3 leg days along with the usual two upper body days. Leg days are something I have to psych myself up to. They are hard, as they should be. I mean we are only making our foundation stronger by working on legs, and they are the biggest muscles. 

My ambition of 3 leg days means that I will be pairing my sprinting with an upper body day. Sprinting usually got it’s own 5th day after 2 upper and 2 lower days. But now it will have to pair up with a training day for upper body. Yes, I am pushing myself this week. I just want to see if I can do it, and how I feel at the end of it. Based on that, I will decide whether I want to or can repeat this pattern next week. Also, I am giving myself the out of not doing this every week, especially the week before my period, when I need to tone things down, and take more rests. Well, life is one big experiment, so I am just playing along 🙂

I am also happy to make it to my yoga every morning this week. The hardest part about that is ofcourse, the 4:45 am wake up, and walking to the studio in the darkness and cold morning air. But I psyche myself up to do it by reminding myself how amazing I feel when walking back home in the morning air and light knowing I did a great thing for both my body and my mind. The calm of the studio, and the gentle environment where I can coax my body and my mind to go deeper feels very nourishing and soothing, and I just love it!

Now that the year is ending in just over 2 months, I want to think about how I want to finish my year on a strong note- what do I want to complete, and what practices did not serve me, or feel important to me that I can let go of. And, of course, what do I want to experiment with bringing into my life next January (or, why not now?!) to see if they land for me. 

One of the things that I want to try is making a writing desk in the corner of my dining room…a place to sit and think and writing, and plan- the analogous way. We already have a nice table there that my son used for his PC a few years ago, but now it sits unused. Since it’s a nice wooden desk that I would hate to get rid of, and we don’t need that space for anything else, I figured, lets see if it can get a new life as a writing desk. Again- a life experiment…

Have you started thinking about year end, and the next year already? Or whether you would like to push yourself a little bit more to end the year with a bang?