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Day in the Life: A Holiday Week

4:50 a.m. – alarm goes off. I didn’t fall asleep until midnight (with the help of a guided meditation) so this felt very early after three weeks straight of 5:30 a.m. clients and lack of quality sleep.

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5:30 a.m. – gym to train a client who is in her third trimester and a close friend of mine. The combo of friendship + her amazing motivation makes for an awesome session. (Note, clearly the client in the forefront of this pic is not pregnant!)

6:40 a.m. – back home. I typically have 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 clients on Thursday but thanks to the holiday, some are traveling. I do something very unlike me and crawl back in bed and sleep until 9 a.m. It was the most glorious, needed thing ever and I regretted it none.

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9-10 a.m. – make breakfast, drink coffee, clean up around the house (make bed, run dishwasher, laundry) and catch up on email

10:10 a.m.- shower and dress

10:30 a.m. – dentist appointment to take care of some things I’ll blog about later. Ugh, dental work.

Noon – yoga private

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1:20 p.m. – arrive home from yoga private and make a light lunch of PB & J and fruit since my mouth was still numb and feeling icky.

1:45 p.m. – conference call about an exciting project kicking off next week. It all happened over the course of the last 24 hours and I can’t wait to share it with you!

2 p.m. – pack bag for the rest of the day and leave for meeting

2:30 p.m. – Metro Management Team meeting

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3:30 p.m. – Walk over to Edible Arts to order a cake for a friend’s baby shower and pick up a cake pop for myself while I’m there!

4 p.m. – training client at Metro

5 p.m. – fit in a quick CrossFit WOD. It’s been a heavy (and super strong) CrossFit week for me.

5:40 p.m. – leave to teach yoga

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6 p.m. – teach hot yoga at Y2 yoga. One of my friends is apprenticing with me and co-taught a portion of tonight’s class. This is my crazy scribble of feedback and notes on his sequence.

7 p.m. – class is over. Clean the room, spend time talking with a student in the locker room, shower and get dressed.

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8 p.m. – leave the studio and head to a friend’s house for wine. I pretty much made my dinner out of cheese and crackers.

9:45 p.m. – arrive home and chat with another friend on the phone to catch up on life

10 p.m. – start this blog post

Once I hit publish I will make some tea and read in bed until lights out. Praise the lord, I have no early clients on Friday thanks to the holiday. I am teaching two yoga classes but one is at 9:15 and the other is at noon so not too bad. I’m heading to a friend’s pool for the afternoon for some rest and relaxation. No other weekend plans! 🙂

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