Yesterday I went to practice... and that run up the hill was evident from moment one. My hamstrings were screaming and they just never really loosened up. When my teacher approached me for Trivikurmasana he shook his head and said "What's up?" I said "Oh I went for a run yesterday and my hamstrings are locked up." He shook his head and said "Well, I hope you learned your lesson." Lesson processed.

I spent all day yesterday working on the charity website that our company owns a percentage of. I'd link to it but it's all professional and stuff and the website analytics would bring people in the know back here and I'm still attempting to keep my business and personal lives somewhat separate. It's a concept of sending out charitable donations to people but the catch is, they are pretty and they allow the recipient to select who they donate the money to rather than you picking PETA and sending it to someone who doesn't believe in that charity. If you'd like to check it out, do a google on charity gift card ;)

After spending an entire day figuring out the platform and making changes, etc., etc. I pulled my head out of the sand and met up with Tiff for sushi. I was so glad I got out and did something other than sit over my computer, typing away.

Even better was that I actually got up this morning and went to practice, pre-7am start... finished first at 8am and thought "second..no... second.. no... second... no.... shit.. second" So I started second. It felt foreign and scary and tight. I setup for Supta Virasana which is a mandatory assist pose for me and my teacher knows it. He setup for the assist and I said "I did second today just for this assist. I really don't want to do Kapotasana." He grunted and moved on. Everything in second just felt, well, wrong. Somehow my heart just wasn't open to the poses. My physical body was tired. First time I've done my whole practice in quite a long time and I lost all stamina, all strength... Laghu was tough.. I barely held it two breaths... then Kapotasana... and, you know what? It wasn't all that bed. I went back on my own, grabbed to the top of my toes and then the assistant moved my hands to just below my heels and I thought to myself "You know what? I'm fine right here.. slow and easy back to this." So when he told me to straighten my arms and lift my head I said no and hung out there. When I came up I said "I haven't done that pose in like a month." The assistant said "Oh the first time is the easy one..the second time will kill you." So I said "Well, should I just do it again then and get it out of the way?" Set up for it and leaned backwards and though "NO WAY!" My muscles were flat out done, no juice... so I bailed out of it. I couldn't even hold my toes on my own in Supta Vajrasana which has been months since I couldn't do that. Isn't it funny how your body is something to work with.

After dropbacks my teacher said something interesting to me.

Teacher: "I remember when you couldn't find your legs."
Me: "Yea"
Teacher: "Now, legs very strong."
Me: look of surprise
Teacher: "Some progress."

Yes, some progress.... now to find bandhas and biceps.