Jumpin' jumpin'

Now that the knee has recovered I've added jumping rope back into the routine, along with running. And I will say definitively that if you're not used to jumping rope, it will kick your butt. Which is a good thing, for me. I'm still working through the 'beginner' workouts that the company I got the ropes from recommended, up to #8 of 14, which are made to be done pretty much one a day for the first two weeks you own the ropes. But if you are also running 3x a week and dealing with runner's knee, those first "fourteen days" can take months. Ah well, back on track now. I am glad I got weighted ropes, they are definitely easier to use than cheaper ones, as the weight makes it easier to tell where they are in space relative to your body.

I the meantime, the company added an apple watch tie-in to their app, which means now it times you and tracks heart rate when you start a workout in the phone app. No more needing to start a separate workout through the native watch workout app, which I very much appreciate as that was obnoxious to remember to do (because you're not really doing it if you're not giving it up to big data, no?).

And I evidently inspired the husband to haul his own ropes back out and try a beginner workout in the garage while I was showering (yay for apple watch notifications). Heh.