Six miles and salsa style

I got to the hotel at the San Francisco Salsa Congress yesterday afternoon, took some dance workshops and checked in. Last night was a blast with the New Swing Sextet playing lots of great rhythms including their famous cover version of "My Favorite Things" (The Sound of Music).

I went to sleep at around 2:45 in the morning. Despite this, I woke up bright and early at 6:30, ate a bagel and cream cheese with a glass of O.J. for breakfast, then hit the treadmill and ran 10K. At 9 AM I went to a yoga/pilates workshop. The pilates were a series of seemingly endless ab exercises that thoroughly kicked my ass. The yoga portion was mainly a set of balancing exercise augmented with variously leg stretches, although as a generalized set of stretches it didn't focus as much on the IT band and hamstrings as I would've liked.

My knee is holding up pretty well so far, although I did have to put some Therapain on it last night. The most trouble I had was today at one workshop in the conference hall that didn't have a portable dance floor, so we had to dance on glazed concrete. It was pretty rough on all my lower joints.