Week 2, Day 3: Adventurous Morning

Wow, I am tired!
Last night I barely slept again.
I think I definitely have a small sleep anxiety problem. If I knwo I have something big the next day or especially if I have to get up early I fixate on it and stress about getting enough sleep and it ends up keeping me awake. I also admit I love TV and I am really into this book that Danielle gave me for my birthday (it's called the Time Traveler's Wife).

Anyway today was hike day for boot camp and so I had to get up even earlier since I had to drive to the park we hiked at. My alarm went off at 4:50am! I got up and got into my excersize clothes and made my way toward Lake Temescal Recreation Area. It started raining. The ground was wet and as I come up to the light before the freeway entrance in the dense foggy early dawn a car next to me comes to a screetching halt as it rides on some sleek asphalt before it comes to a halt, just as the light turns green I look over to a terrified look on the guys face.

I make my way onto the empty misty freeway and as I come close to my exit I notice a semi turned horitontally (well at an angle) covering the two right lanes, perhaps he skid too? There is an SUV in front of me that slows, and goes around the semi cautiously, I follow. Next I notice an overturned SUV on the other side of the semi. My heart starts pounding and my eyes well up. I almost pulled over to see if I could help and the SUV in front of me continues towards the exit. So I follow, but I grab my phone and dial 911. I didnt see it happen but no sirens were in sight so I figured I would call. I think this was my first legitimate 911 call ever. I was shocked at how long it took to get to a live person. Once there I started to descrive the location adn the scene, as I was calling another call came in reporting the same accident. Must be the suv in front of me. I park next to Haydee and I am still on the phone. She gets in my car since its now pouring rain. I tell her I saw an accident. It maust have happened after she exited and beofre I did (5 minutes apart). I am definitely shaken up, but I somehow manage not to totally freak out. The suv in front of me was friends from boot camp who who also stirred, and had also called 911.

I shaked it off as we headed, increasingly wet, into the woods. The thought of the accident I just saw and a tv show about a woman who was attacked by a mountain lion both kept creeping into my head, especially after the group turned out of sight and Haydee and I alone huffed up the hill behind them.

One of the trainers dropped back and hiked with us. Ther rain slowed down to a heavy misting and my breathing got heavier as my legs experienced an acute pain. It was good. I felt good. The accident and my tiredness melted away into the moment of the fog and the mud and the hill and me.

Once at the top the group was gathered in a huge circle stretched their arms out to the side. In the clearing in the dense early morning it looked like a seance or some crazy fitness religion was being performed, with my precious 'z's as the ultimate sacrifice. I stretched with them and we started our way back, which went a bit quicker. Once back in the parking lot I decided to forgo the push-ups and took the towel out of my car door to wipe off the dense mud that soiled my toehrwise clean white sneakers. I made my way home in the brighter, less wet, more traffic freeway. I took my time getting ready for work because I had warned my work I might be late. I cleaned my sneakers and made my lunch. I even weighed myself (exact same weight).

I was a little annoyed to have gotten into the small two-door mercedes sportscar, the driver didnt even turn on the radio and I fought as hard as I could not to doze off, despite feeling HUGE in that tiny car. But I lucked out and she offered to take me to 5th St, so I successfully avoided my walk and landed at work right in time.

Today is the first "real" weight watchers meeting and I am ready!