Tunica:

Okay so good news...the toe seems to be back to 100% and working very well! So not to worry, the running continues.

Bex and I did our country run on Thursday morning. We did about 5.3 miles but just couldn't man up to the challenge of doing 6. I had overdone it at a girls' night on Wednesday night (code for 'I drank too much wine'), and just wasn't feelin' it. BUT I was proud of myself for at least doing around 5 miles. 5 miles is better than no miles, right?! Right.

As I mentioned in my last post, I've decided to add a morning gym workout to my training routine and this morning was my first morning to do so. I know what you're thinking, there's a gym in Tunica but no Walgreens?!?! No we don't have a Walgreens in Tunica (sigh) but YES we do have an AWESOME gym that the county built. Yall I'm serious, you would love this gym so much. It is great. It has everything you could ever want including cardio machines, classrooms complete with jump ropes and step-ups for aerobic classes. They have all your weight machines and....wait for it....a ridiculous aquatic center. Although I have not actually swam in the pool, I have seen it and it looks great. Maybe once this Half Marathon is over, I'll try for a Triathlon and see how the swimming goes. A girl can dream, can't she?
So anyway, if you're ever in Tunica you've gotta check it out....Tunica County Health and Wellness Center is where it's at! And let me tell you the best thing about this gym: Some of you that live in Nashville might work out at the Green Hills YMCA. This was my gym when I was living in Nashville. I didn't love going to this gym because a) it might as well be a night club there are so many meatheads with hair gel and too-tight T-shirts, and b) all their classes are like, ahundredandfiftymillion people big so there's no room to actually work out. These are not problems you'll run into at the TCHWC...no meatheads, just lovely senior citizens walking the little track, and I don't think they even sell hair gel in Tunica. And the classes they do have usually have a total of 3 attendees so it's like having a personal trainer! Lovely. Ooo-Ooo and one more thing. Guess how much I pay to go to the gym. $20. PER YEAR. Yes, that's right. Casino employees get a gym membership for $20 a freakin' year. Fitness for free people. Fitness. For. Free. So anyway... I loved my workout this morning. I did the Arc Trainer for 20 minutes (great for the boo-tay), and did weights for like 45 minutes. Another perk of the TCHWC is that they have these little charts you can track your workouts on....like, what machine you used, the amount of weights you lifted, to number of reps you did. And at the end of your work out you just leave it there in their handy-dandy filing system, where it will wait for you until you return. How nice. So I started my little chart and loved my workout and my awesome gym! Maybe I will increase my gym workouts to two days a week since I love it so much. Or maybe not. We'll see.

Tomorrow is the dreaded 7-miler. Pray for me. The last time I ran 7 miles we all know what happened...my toe was injured. Injured Bad.