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I went to the gymnastics gym last night and worked out for about 4 hours.  It wasn’t that bad actually; I think stretching has made me way stronger than I used to be!  I brought my camera but I didn’t whip it out; I wanted to video tape me doing stuff.  First we did a warm up of just cardio and calisthenic stuff.  Then we went to bars.  I did a free-hip handstand!  Wooo!  Me and two other ‘alumni’ gymnasts went over to the pit bar and did some flyaways and one of the girls did giants!  Maybe next time I’ll do some giants…I’m kind of afraid of the pit bar because I had a bad fall on it; I almost broke my left foot/ankle and had to get stitches in the other foot. 

Then we went to floor.  I did a bit of tumbling but then my back started to bother me so I stopped.  People were on the tumbletrack so I couldn’t go on it D:  We went to vault, which I really couldn’t do because of my back.  Another girl couldn’t do vault either because she has a stress fracture in one of her legs.  We then went to beam and I did some turns, leaps and jumps.  And some handstands and presses too.  There weren’t any mats stacked up so I didn’t do any backhandsprings.  Maybe next time.

I wasn’t that sore when I woke up this morning, actually.  Yea my shoulders and arms are sore from bars, but the sorest (is that a word?) part of my body are my upper calves, right below my back knee.  I think it’s from doing toe raises, which I never do.  We did 20 feet together, 20 with toes touching, 20 with heels touching, and 10 on each leg.  I had to work to get my legs straight while standing this morning ahha.

Well going to the gym wasn’t the best idea because I wanted to make a video today; hopefully I can still get my full flexibility.  If not, then my vid will just have to wait.

Ah it feels so good to be at the gym!  If you ever go somewhere and get this feeling like, ‘this is where I belong’, that place is it for me.  I could be in there all day if my body would let me.  Well I might try to go back to sleep; I haven’t been able to sleep in lately!  Only til around 9 at the latest -__-