Training, Bluecoats & Awesome Tan Lines

I'm sitting in the airport in Dallas... who hates sitting around all day in airports? I do!! I pulled an all-nighter last night getting everything ready to go so I was pretty tired when I (barely made it) got on my 7:00am flight (at 6:58am). The kid next to me started to kinda freak out and I was a little worried. Turns out he left his MacBook at security, well the dude got SUPER lucky. We were on the runway and the pilot came over the loudspeaker and said that we had mechanical issues and would be going back to the gate. The attendants let the dude get off the plane and run to security, he got his laptop and made it back on the flight!! Fantastic for him, crappy for me... I missed my connecting flight by FOUR minutes. So I got to DFW at 8:34am (it's not 11:57am) and my new second flight was delayed by an hour. Well, that means that I'll get to Columbus at 4:30.... the Bluecoats bus leaves at 4:00. So I'll have to wait in the Columbus airport until 7:15 to take the van. Haha, sweet. well good thing I always pack my food!!

Since I only slept from 4 - 4:45am, I didn't have time for breakfast. When I got to Dallas I began the search for something other than Starbucks muffins, Cinnabon, Dunkin Donuts or beer. After about 45 minutes I found a Pappasito's and ordered my 4 egg whites with red peppers... they didn't have rice cakes though, damn. It was kinda nice though. I sat at the bar and had my egg whites and coffee and wrote out my workouts for this coming week.

Bluecoats move-ins rehearsals start bright and early tomorrow morning and unfortunately for the members, they start with me :) hahahahahahaha, this'll be fun. Last year I started them inside on the first day.... but doing plyo, allll plyo. an hour of plyo. Now I know you've talked about making sweat puddles before, but you have no idea about sweat puddles until you see 150 fat marching band kids doing plyo for an hour. It was evil, I admit. This year is a little more structured since we had a solid strength and conditioning program in the off-season. I'll be determining group leaders and see who will be the leaders of the pack and the fat kids. Last year I didnt' do too much of standing in the food line and taking food off people's plates.. but this year I will be. It's kinda fun when a kid is holding a ladle of ranch dressing over his plate and they look up at you and you just shake your head. The disappointment in their eyes is thick but it's for the good!!

So on to training. I CAN NOT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to have TIME to train how I am supposed to. I'll post some pictures of the awful hills around campus so you can get an idea of what I'm up against. The gym there kinda sucks but they do have a rockin weightlifting room with like 20 platforms, chains, etc. I'm stoked that I'll get to actually physically train with my trainer Mike Davies and get my ass handed to me. No one has ever been able to push me to the edge or make me throw up... I think Mike will and I'm ex.ci.ted!

My diet will be on point. My training will be on point. and I'm gonna look gooood.

The BEST thing about drum corps is that clothing is optional. If you wear a shirt people look at you funny. Shirt off, roll those shorts up, throw on a hat and flip flops and get your tan on haha. I loooooovvee spending three months in a sports bra/bikini and shorts. Let me tell you, my tan is gonna rock. You'll be jealous. I probably have skin cancer after 8 years of this but oh well. Once thing I don't miss about marching is the horrible shoe tan lines. At least as a staff member I can wear sandals and get rid of that tan line.

Okee doke, battery is about to die.

Oh wait!!! News from the past week. I slammed my toe with a sledgehammer and it's been all big and purple, hurts. Also, from the wreck with the semi truck, my back and neck are a complete mess. The numbness and tingling in my arms went way but the whiplash is really bad (super stick neck, shooting pain, stinging pain) and my back is so so tight that it's been spasming for days now. I've been to therapy everyday and it's helped but there's still a long way to go to recovery. Right now I hurt pretty bad and it's just so uncomfortable. No position feels good and it just hurts all over, yuck. Oh well. On with the show...