Fighting in an office

That is what I was doing today, anyone that has been following along knows that today was Kenpo X day. Finishing today's workout wrapped up week 5 of P90X so I am moving right along. While I was in the car today it dawned on me that a week from Wednesday I will already be halfway through the program. You know you are enjoying the workouts when it goes by as fast as these weeks are going by. Like all the other workouts I have done more than once today I focused on upping the intensity as much as I could. Since this isn't a workout that has any types of weights or modifications that means I had to focus on moving my hips more, throwing harder punches and kicking higher than I have in the past workouts, and that is just what I did. My punches were harder I moved my hips more on each of the punches with the same hand as my back leg, my front kicks were almost to eye level, my back kicks were just over parallel to the floor, and my side kicks were higher than they have been. There were a couple of times that the additional effort on getting the kicks higher made me fall behind the pace of the video but I was able to catch back up and next time I am going to work on keeping pace as well. Tomorrow I am going to try and run if the weather will allow it, if not I will try and go to the rec center and get on the treadmill, even though that is not my favorite way to run. If I am able to go around the neighborhood I am shooting for 6 laps, which would be around 10 miles. If I can get that done then I would say I am in pretty good shape for the half marathon next month, if not then I will just have to keep training harder until I am ready. This week I may have a little extra time to train for it as well as get my workouts done so I may run for an hour or so in the mornings and workout after work to help continue to get ready for the run. I don't know that for sure as I am afraid the additional calorie burn will cause me to lose some muscle mass but that is kind of my idea for the week. I guess we will just have to see how that plays out. Keep an eye on the blog to see if I was able to run and if I got the 6 laps in. I have the best chance of doing it as long as I don't wear the same socks I wore last weekend since it was the pain in my foot and not my tiredness that caused me to stop running last week. Wish me luck on the run. I know if I tell myself I can do it I will be able to.