Leaving friends is the worst!! Uh... I feel like I have some how professionalised saying goodbye at airports & train stations. Without fail I'm in tears and it ain't the sweet one tear rolling down the cheek kind. It's the blubbing, red faced, clinging on for last cuddles like my life depends on it sort. I don't even get embarrassed anymore, wiping tears and snot away in front of train conductors and airport security quite the thing. Sunglasses on even if it's dark and I can't stop the flow of emotion.
My trip to London was extended at the last minute to spend extra time with the BFF. If I didn't have to fly to Frankfurt tomorrow I'd happily stayed another night. Lots of good old chats, yummy food, heart to hearts and lots of workouts. It's been a good trip and I even managed to throw in a bit of work in between the fun :-)
I guess my I LOVE YOU MAN scene at Victoria Station wasn't in vain...
It's been a cool trip and only possible because I did the impossible and said NO to a work request. It's practically unheard of in my line of work but from somewhere I got the courage to say it was unreasonable to be expected to work in Milan on an hours notice. Now I'm not a self entitled princess and know it sounds like an awesome opportunity for a single gal. But here's the reality - travelling over every weekend until the end of May, living and working alone in a country which I don't speak the language. No friends, no family, no gym and developing a gut from hotel food and wine. No thank you!! A hotel is a hotel and an office is an office no matter where you are in the world.
Go me! One more step towards the "balanced" life objective.
Before my departure I squeezed in a light legs session today. Light referring to the weight but it left me struggling to get up the stairs. Yowsers!!
Warm Up: 8 minutes cross train
3 x 15 Leg press - to burn my quads out, I wanted to focus on my hamstrings and calves today
3 x 15 Single leg deadlift (back leg elevated) ss dumbell straight leg deadlift
3 x 15 incline press ss weighted calf raise machine
3 x 15 hamstring lying down thingy machine (check my post a couple of days ago for picture) ss weighted squat (go really deep)
I could barely carry myself over to stretch at the end of this.
Now it's homeward bound I go to frantically wash my clothes and repack for another trip. I best try throw in some sleep in there too because it's up early to make protein bars to take to Frankfurt and then a session with the Trev Dog before I fly out.
I've never been to Germany and don't speak no German so this should be fun/interesting. Dam it I really should have paid attention in Frau Mooljee's class!!
Love
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