100 things: Last session with Tal. (98/100 Things)

[labelleizzy]

I have a sadface, on the one hand. OTOH, it was an epic last workout, not an "evaluation" session like I halfway expected.

Tal is awesome, I'm going to miss working out with her. She is great at giving me the little corrections that make my workouts better: like, check your stance, your feet aren't even. Step backwards one step so the cable crosses your body and not your neck. (oy.) Did you see how your body dipped there? Tighten your core muscles. Liz, you can only talk if you are still working out. (grinning, I do talk to her a lot) Make sure your back is flat. (she used to use an image of "there are ants trying to walk under your back, squish the ants, don't let them through!)

What a great year-and-four-months this has been. Such focus, many muscles, wow. (heh heh heh)

I'm so much stronger than I was. I'm much more confident in my body than I was. I wake up with SO MUCH LESS PAIN than I did once upon a time. Some of that is thanks to the knee surgery that replaced my ACL at the end of 2011, but much of it is due to her guidance and encouragement.

She remembered to return a book I lent her, Strong Women Stay Young, and she wrote me a little thank you card. I'm pleased that I had a set of the little gifts I'd made for Burning Man with me, and could give her one. She said she hopes I keep in touch and reminded me that I have her phone number. I think I'll keep texting her. She is just neat and awesome.

What a beautiful day today is.

Oh, note to self: remember to start using the foam core roller on your thighs and IT band. You need it.

Comments

[kshandra]

Remind me where you're camped again? It'd be fun to swag trade for our first meeting. ;-) (Our village is at 4:15 between Darjeeling and Ephesus; there was some Drama in our planning group over which camps were going to have frontage where, so I probably won't know till I hit dirt which side M*A*S*H is actually on.)

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

We are at Silicon Village, and IIRC we, Otis Spankmore, are on the Gold side, around 6:15.

Plz do introduce yourself if you come by... Everyone is cool.

[kshandra]

And Izzy will be a name they recognize? ;-)

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

I'm currently going by Liz or Elizabeth. I have an idea for a playa nickname but I've been told I don't get to choose.

[kshandra]

That's not always the case - I came with a pre-installed playa name - but the best ones are usually the ones that happen to you at the event. (Like one of my campmates who kept forgetting to duck when she came into our shade structure...she was Clothesline by mid-week. *grin*) But Liz it shall be.

EDIT: We've got dinner plans Monday evening right across the street from you at the Heebees; we'll be in the neighborhood around 6:30.

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you can't work out with her any more. What changed?
Looking forward to hearing about you finding other coaches and trainers as you progress.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

She has quit this JCC because the commute was insupportable, and will be working in SF and Emeryville.

I'll be fine, just need to find someone else and some more classes to kick my butt. Sometime after Burning man!