Time is running out!! But I had a great afternoon and evening 
Lauri and I bundled up in the freezing temps for a sunny boot camp workout at a local school football field.
We walked a mile to get there – with about 20 pounds of weights on our backs – plus water!
We spent about 45 minutes alternating between exercises, sprints and jogging laps around the field. We would each do an exercise, switch, SPRINT the football field and back, do each exercise again and then jog a lap before repeating with a different exercise. Since we didn’t have Buzz the Fabulous Photographer, I didn’t get a photo of all of our circuits, but here are a snippet of them.
We were pooped by the end, but ended up doing a bit of gymnastics
[A round off 
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And that’s when I broke my back.
I tried to touch my toes and landed in a squat and pulled something bad in my back. I am NOT A GYMNAST!!! Or a cheerleader. Just an old fart. I really thought I had done something serious for a while there. I felt like my back muscles had been ripped or something. We had a mile walk back home and by the time we got there it was feeling much better and I barely feel it now, so I *THINK* I am OK. Going to take it very easy at yoga tomorrow night.
We came home and warmed up over some soup. That walk home at dusk was freezing!!!
Happy Herbivore’s Curried Pumpkin Lentil Soup
I’ve had this saved in my Springpad for ages!
Wafting garlic –
I love discarded apple cores!!
It was one of the easiest soups I’ve ever made and was super delicious and filling and easy!!!!
[The soup recipe made 2 big bowls and a half cup leftover.]
Lauri and I agreed that we wished I’d had some of the molasses that the recipe called for. We also agreed that toasted walnuts would have been a great addition as well as more apple chunks!
We also made a spinach salad with some Trader Joe’s antioxidant salad mix, which came with spinach, dried cherries, dried blueberries, walnuts and dried edamame. Plus a dressing. We added some Cinnamon Cranberry Goat Cheese (which Lauri found at TJ’s too!).
The salad was amazinggggg…
After dinner we sampled a Chocolate Chip Cappuccino Muffin from Great Harvest
I had just a piece of a quarter plus some Cacao Bliss slightly melted
Headed to take a bubble bath, red and bed and get lots of rest for my big day tomorrow that is starting at 4:50AM!
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that salad DOES look good! pretty colors
Old fart?! Puhleease! You are far from it:)
Am very impressed you made it outside in this frigid weather. You guys are hardcore!
Oh no! Make sure to take it easy and take good care of your back while it heals!
Where did you get that placemat, btw?
Crate + Barrel last year
Thanks!
They really have the best stuff, don’t they?
Hope your back is ok, I’m sure the hot bath will do the muscles some good. Can’t wait to hear how your first day goes, we’ll all be thinking of you
what a fun afternoon – creative way to fit in a workout!
Glad your back seems to be OK – that can be so scary!
Soup looks super flavorful, will have to try it soon!
Love the cart wheel pics! And the soup!!
Love the bootcamp idea and cooking dinner with friends is always fun! Hope your back is okay tomorrow!
wow looks like some intense circuits in the COLD! I give you props for venturing out !
Hope your back gets better soon! If it hurts at yoga, probably good idea to see somebody. Wouldn’t want to take chances with back injuries
Your bootcamps sound so fun- I wish I had friends who loved to do that kind of stuff!
Your salad looks so tasty; dried fruit in salads is so good!
That soup looks super yum. Your meal was probably the best thing to have after your cold workout.
At least the exercise kept you warm in the chilly weather! But I’m so sorry about your back… take it easy and try a warm compress to ease the muscles while you relax this evening. You probably just strained a muscle badly, but that can REALLY hurt! Hope it feels better soon!
Sounds like a great workout!
I wrote down the ingredients for that salad. It looks so good! I think I actually have everything on hand! Thanks for sharing
Awesome circuit Kath!
Yikes! That is early! Your workout looked like a BLAST! Hope that back is okay!
BE CAREFUL!!!! Back injuries are no fun. Make sure you rest the muscles in you back before doing anything hard-core.
Hope your back feels better! That muffin looks delicious!!!
That soup sounds amazing — going on my weekend to-make list, for sure!
For me, running always gets done! The calisthenics is the hard part! Kudos on getting it done!
great workout and great dinner! you guys are an inspiration for sure
I am in LOVE with cinnamon and cranberry goat cheese, and it is pure bliss with walnuts… my mouth is watering.
Looks like a fun fun workout, but I hope your back is okay. Good luck in the A.M.-sounds like you and Matt might turn into nap buddies one of these days!
Soup and salad look tasty! Perfect for the cold temps!!
That muffin sounds delish! Interesting flavor!
Jenna
Mmm that soup looks great.
you are NOT an old fart i think you are just always too close the ground
hope your back feels better, your outside workouts are always so inspiring!
If you are old I don’t even want to know what I am! The soup looks delicious!
I hope you back is better. Looks like you had fun thought. Dinner looks amazing, gah I really want soup now!
OOOh, I love that cranberry goat cheese from TJs – sooo good! The bootcamp workout looks really fun, but super cold!
My mom has a splendid recipe for espresso chocolate chip muffins, but those look terrific…as does the antioxidant salad.
Ohhhh my that is just waaaaaaaay too early! Bootcamp looks fun. I definitely would like a workout partner in the Colorado cold! It snowed a ton today so I couldn’t get out for a run and I don’t belong to a gym now…I’ll definitely just have to get out for a walk tomorrow…although it’s supposed to be in the negatives, so maybe just some hardcore house cleaning! =)
Kath! I hurt my tailbone last week and it still hurts. (I fell on the ice.) It did not help that I further aggravated it when I slightly tripped a few days after. I am a runner and haven’t done any exercise in a week! It is driving me crazy. I am meeting with a physical therapist tomorrow, but I recommend taking it very easy! Back injuries do take time to heal because because your back is always at work.
Idea for you: a Great Harvest GIVEAWAY ; )
I would love to do that sometime, but I’m not sure about the company rules and if I’m allowed?? Perhaps when I’m a store owner it will be different
Oh wow!!!! a workout in the cold?? That’s something. I wish I was brave enough for that
The work out and the soup sound sooooo good!
oohh that soup looks amazing
You guys have great self disipline to do that workout by yourselves, and OH MY, I SOO wish I could do handstands like that! My body quite simply rejects even the idea of handstands..it’s a dream of mine to one day do one
Glad your back is okay, Kath! Wish I had your zest for exercise! Good luck with your early day and busy new schedule.
i can’t do that stuff anymore either
makes me sad b/c i WAS a cheerleader/gymnast! it’s just that it was >10 years ago!! oops. i think i did my last ever back handspring at around age 25. now i think something would snap if i tried it!
4:50!! WELCOME TO MY WORRRRRLD . . .
Ouch hope you’re back stays ok!!
Whenever I do that move (which now is barely ever), I always pull something in my back. It hurts!
Glad to hear your back is ok! Looks like a great workout.
I think I have to try to make that soup, looks awesome!
Be careful with your back! I have a bad back from being hit by a drunk driver, so I’m a big advocate of taking care of it. I would reccomend, if your back still hurts in the next 3 days…go to a Physical Therapist or a Chiropractor.
Looks like you had a good time!
I love the idea of a “homemade” boot camp.
Sorry you hurt your back though. If it makes you feel any younger(no pun intended) I can’t even do a cart wheel so my back would have killed me too.
awwwwwww.. wish I could have been there!!
Feel better soon!! It’s so nice you have people to workout with.
I am a gym girl, though, and don’t much like working out with a partner there because it messes up my routine.
i haven’t done a round off in ages!
I’m glad that your back is feeling better!
Your soup and salad look yumtastic! I really wish we had a TJs here, and you know how I feel about Great Harvest! Yum!