Progress!

I did a handstand today!!!  It was only for a split second, but man it felt good!  I went to the 6 a.m. Hatha class and Angie was teaching.  I don't know why but I kept getting lightheaded during class.  I had plenty of water, so that wasn't the problem.  In general I eat fairly healthy, but last week I had a lot of crap.  The last couple days I've been back to healthy eating, so I'm guessing my body was just getting rid of all the toxins.

Anyway, I wasn't feel great during class, but I'm really glad I went and stuck it out because afterward I felt so much better!  Whatever was going on worked its way out of my system and I felt back to normal again.  I felt so good that I stayed after class to practice handstands.

I was practicing up against the wall again, and I got fairly consistent with being able to get up so I started experimenting with taking my feet away from the wall.  I could only hold it for a few seconds without touching the wall, but it was definitely progress.  Then twice I actually kicked up into the handstand without touching the wall at all!!!  I'm not brave enough to try it without the wall yet...I'll keep practicing until I'm more consistent and can hold it for longer...but I'm on my way :)

Last night was my second tennis lesson and thankfully it went much better than the first.  Yay, there is hope for me yet!  Marc and I practiced over the weekend, so that definitely helped.  Hopefully the weather will be nice this weekend so we can play some more.  I still have a long way to go, but I was excited that I got a few "good hit" comments from the instructor. 

The only bad thing to report is that I've been a total slacker on running this week...I haven't been for a run since Saturday.  oops!  I have two more weeks until the half marathon so at this point I'm pretty much running out of time to get ready.  Oh well - I'll still do it and run as much as I can, but I'm doubtful that I will be able to run the whole thing without walking.  Next time I will have to plan better and not give myself a yoga goal and a running goal at the same time.  Lesson learned