Fitness update (with a side of Heath and IMC)

I started the fitness regime on April 18th, and since then I have worked out every day except one, which is now a total of 41 days, not including today (I'll be leaving for the gym after I publish this post).  The one missed day (ARGH!) was last Saturday, due to my friend Allison's wedding in Saskatoon - the day was just crazy from beginning to end, and the gym is only open until 5pm on weekends anyway so squeezing it in was just unfortunately not possible.  Of the past 41 workout days, I've been to the gym for all of them except 4 I think, and on those days I've done other forms of exercise.  The first 3 of those days were because I was out at the lake without access to a gym (but I brought my bike and running shoes), and I decided to forgo yesterday morning's gym workout as last night I spent 12 hours at the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life, and I only slept for 2.5 of those hours; the rest was spent walking around the track with a crowd of other people who had raised $$ for the event.

I am noticing a change in how my clothes fit.  I bought a new dress for Allison's wedding last weekend, and it's a size smaller than anything I've worn in the past few years.  My favourite dress pants for work are starting to feel baggy and fall down.  When I put my hand on my stomach during band or choir to demonstrate some breathing technique, I notice that it feels flatter, and I can start to feel ab muscles.  I haven't made any big changes in my diet, but the consistency of my workouts are starting to pay off.

That being said, it's now 3:46pm and I am going to ride my bike to the gym so I can get a good workout in before the gym closes at 5pm.

And on a non-fitness related note, I leave for IMC 4 weeks from today!!!!!!  YAAAAAAY!!!!!!!  Bring on the summer!!!!  Oooooh!!!  And in only 2 weeks, my friend Heath from New Zealand will be flying to SK to visit me!!!!   AAAAHHH!!! :oD  I haven't seen him since we sang together in Wellington Youth Choir, over a year and a half ago.  He's in Whistler right now visiting his brother, and we booked him a flight a few weeks ago, so now our reunion is almost here!  It will be another 13 months until I go back to NZ too, so this visit is almost perfectly in the middle.  I can't wait!

I will post a couple pics of Relay for Life once I upload them from my camera.

Hugs!

..... and the livin' is easy....

I recorded a small CD (6 tracks) with my friend Graham this weekend in Lloydminster, and we had a ton of fun hanging out and making music together.  Here's one of my favourite tunes from the session, or "sessiob," as we began calling it after Graham's unintentional misspelling of the word while saving the tracks to his computer.... which led to more intentional misspellings.... which led to our CD title, "The Lauron and Grayum Sessiobs".... long story, funny if you were there. :o)  Anyway, here's the Gershwin classic, "Summertime," a la Lauren and Graham (recorded yesterday in Graham's living room):

Summertime - Lauren Campbell and Graham Pritchard

Let me know what you think!

"I'm so absent-minded.... it's 'Fiddler on the Week' roof. I mean....

..... 'Fiddler on the Week' roof!" (This was an exact quote from me earlier this week, when trying to explain why I was so exhausted and goofy.)

It is indeed "Fiddler on the Roof" week! I'm playing soprano saxophone and flute in the pit orchestra for St. Mary High School's production, and it's actually a ton of fun. The show closes tomorrow night, and it has been a good run. The grade 12 student that is playing Tevye is just FANTASTIC. I guess he has a call-back for the National Theatre School, which is exciting but not surprising. The guy is incredible. His delivery of his lines is just perfect, and his comedic timing is amazing. Sitting in the pit night after night and hearing the same lines over and over, one would expect to become bored or less entertained just because the scenes become obviously predictable.... but somehow Tevye keeps it fresh, night after night. There are some very strong performers in the show in general. It's tons of fun, and the audience response has been great! I'm pretty exhausted, but it has been fun. The band was hired very last-minute (long story...) and we managed to put together the entire show (a 200-page score) in a week and a half. Whew. It has been a marathon (or a sprint?!) and we're almost at closing night! Incredible.

This morning marked Day 21 of the fitness plan, with not one missed workout. Woop! 49 more days to go until IMC!!!!! :o)

TGIF!!!! Happy weekend, everyone!