3 words to describe me today:

SORE. SORE. SORE.

It's ridiculous just how sore your muscles can get! You have a super intense workout and expect to wake up the next morning with a few aches in pains. Now multiply that by THREE unbelievably intense workouts with no day to rest in between and you get what I'm feeling right now, which is constant aching and soreness in every muscle of my body. The only muscles that weren't hurting when I woke up this morning were my upper abs but today's workouts changed that real quick.

So going back to yesterday, a little recap of what we did was we met at the Y at 6:30 (slept in!) and the girls did laps in the pool for 30 minutes straight with minimum resting. Then we did a 30 minute version of a cycling class, then weightlifting or optional cardio for another 45 minutes. When we were done, we got on the floor in the gym and did a 7-step ab workout twice. Even though every new exercise we do is what I would consider the hardest thing I've ever done, yesterday's workouts were ideal. Super hard, but possible.

Today, on the other hand, we started the morning off with Consequence Time (CT) for people who failed the scripture memory test yesterday. This means we had to meet at the church at 5:30am, an hour before our initial call time, to walk laps around the church for an hour. It wasn't hard, it was just annoying for the people who passed the test and still had to do the CT. Since one person from each team falied, they just made everyone do it. But it was actually fun! The majority of our time was spent watching for falling stars, speaking in horrible british accents, and singing butchered versions of our favorite Disney songs. After morning prayer, we jogged a half-mile to warm up and then did more ab workouts (gag) and did the "plank" position for 2 minutes while they quizzed us on the Code. Then we ran 2 miles and were timed (double gag). I am so horrible at running, I hope we do NOT have to run tomorrow. But overall, today and yesterday's workouts weren't completely horrible! :)

Yesterday we had our leader's meeting for Venue, which is the new college and 20-somethings service that will be held weekly in the youth auditorium every Tuesday, starting September 21st. This is an extremely cool ministry where 24/7 gets to lead rather than serve, so we'll be doing all the tech/sound/lights, creative directing, planning, worship, and other things pertaining to running the service. We went out yesterday to the Sarasota campus of USF to promote the Venue by meeting kids through cornholeing, but there were literally like 7 people on campus and I think all or most of them were teachers so the whole several hours were spent cornholeing by ourselves in the boiling hot sun in dark jeans and T-shirts. But today we had our first 24/7 meeting to plan the Venue and the service is coming together so nicely! It's seriously going to be awesome! :)

So at the moment I am in Volunteer Central at Bayside during our 3 1/2 hour block of time for school. But since 3 other people and I are doing the "sinner's classes" (joke!) we are alone in this room for all that time doing schoolwork, but most of us don't have too much to do so this few hours ROCKS.

All I gotta say is: 2 leather couches, 1 VERY tired 24/7 student. I'm gonna go sleep when I finish my homework for the day so I'm out! :)