a pain in the neck.

a saturday night blog post from this girl? what's wrong???

wellllll... in the midst of studying for my NASM test last month, i started getting this weird neck/mid-upper back soreness. almost like a kink in my neck. i honestly assumed that it was from sitting, hunched over a desk for so many hours at a time. posture, posture, posture! but the past few days it came back and worse than ever. it has like spasms. and i realized, it's from STRESS. i used to get it in my shoulder blade and only one side of my neck and i could pin point what it was every time. but this time it is awful. so what am i doing right now? well this is how i'm spending my saturday..

with a little half a pill (mind you, my FIRST time taking a muscle relaxer), a delicious dinner, and a movie. (eww my hands are SO dry!).

so with this pain i decided to do legs at the gym friday. oooooo weeeee am i sore today! ive been putting myself through the NASM OPT model (basically everything i've learned for training) and setting up some killer workouts. it's fun. and i leave the gym feeling fully worked.

well today, with my neck pain still in full effect and now super leg soreness, i decided to start doing my speed work to train for the carlsbad 5000. what does this mean? sprints on the treadmill. aye dios mio. i got to the gym, foam rolled, stretched and then did my thing. (not before breaking a treadmill and having to move machines) ya know, some gyms just can't handle this, sorry crunch, jenna's here to stay so get used to her running at 11.0 then putting it back down to 4.0! yes, 11.0.. mmmhmm. i'm a speedy little girl. i think it's my stubby legs.

tomorrow it's up early for gym time then some good ol' relaxing football watching. happy freakin' saturday night (from my bed). ahhh.. i think the pill is starting to work... :)