Boot camp is over! I did it! Yeah! This morning's boot camp was the final day of our month-long program. Only 10 of the 17 registered campers showed up, which surprised me as this is the most important day of all! It's a concrete way to prove to ourselves that we've achieved a new level of physical fitness. Plus, it's a nice form of closure to a month of very hard work. (More after the jump!)

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Today was our last regular workout for Operation Boot Camp's month-long program. Tomorrow is the test of our abilities. I was sluggish this morning and I think it's from the shots I received for my upcoming trip to Central America. I got Hep. A & B and tetanus shots jabbed into my left arm on Tuesday morning, had a couple of side effects that same day, but yesterday my arm was killing me and I was lightheaded. Today my arm still hurts and my body's not completely up to par. But, alas, complainin...

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I'm so sad that boot camp is coming to an end. Friday's our last day, and that'll consist of a physical fitness test, the same kind we had on Day 1. I'm quite confident that I'll beat my records. But I haven't lost more than those 2 pounds I wrote about in Week 1. Granted, I feel much more solid, but I weigh the same AND my pants fit the same. So I'm disappointed in that. But I'm not disappointed that I took on this challenge and rocked it out in boot camp. I am planning on taking up running and...

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This morning was fantastic. I was ready to go after yesterday's wonderful 5-mile run. I wasn't sore and felt great. Plus, I knew we were working on our upper bodies, and that made me happy, as I've got some major arm toning to do. When I showed up, there were only, like, 4 campers and a dozen instructors. My first thought was, "Did the run scare that many people off? How am I, a generally sedentary person, here and they're not?" But a few more arrived before we got started, and we were off for a...

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Today I saw a side of myself that I've never seen before, a determination I didn't know I had within me and an endurance level I didn't know I had gotten to already. I ran more than 5 miles this morning at Operation Boot Camp, and I barely got winded. The two times I walked had to do with muscle cramps in my calves. When I woke up this morning, I didn't want to go to boot camp. I didn't want to get out of bed. I knew it was going to be a cardio day, as that's been the pattern for Mondays so far....

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