We interrupt your regularly scheduled running program to bring you an episode on yoga.
(I guess I can't really write that because there is absolutely nothing regular about my running program.)
At any rate, North Carolina is presently beautiful. Bea-u-ti-ful. 80° with very low humidity. Partly sunny. I bolt from work, ready to hit the not-so-hot pavement. And somewhere between James telling me we have no food and me realizing I need to do laundry, I managed to put all of my running clothes (yes, all) in the washer at the same time.
I am not above wearing stinky clothes. But soaking wet ones kind of present an issue.
So, I decided to revisit my most favorite online resource, My Yoga Online.
Seriously, this site is awesome; especially for folks like me living too far away from normally scheduled yoga classes.
And no matter how you look at it, $9.95 a month for unlimited access to the whole host of videos, blogs, and community pages on healthy living and thinking and, of course, yoga is a steal.
My love affair with yoga, like my love affair with running, is on-again/off-again. This fact alone is significant; the mental part of both activities I understand and embrace, it's the physical dedication and discipline that both call for to excel that I struggle to maintain.
Today, I took Clara Roberts-Oss's Moon Saluation class. I've practiced it before, but I didn't appreciate just how much a runner could benefit from this vinyasa sequence, focusing on loosing hamstrings, hips, and back.
It was, simply put, delicious. The yin to my running yang.
Luckily for me, tomorrow's high is only 83°, and the clothes will be dry.
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