The Honeymoon

We spent an incredible 8 days in St. Lucia, doing lots of training... er, well, actually make that NO training to speak of. Which was awesome. On about the second day there we tried out the resort's treadmill, which was located in the open-air gym. Surrounded by palm trees, a view of the ocean... it sounds really great. It was a nice place, except that by 6:30 am, the heat index is already at least 90. So after about 15 minutes on that treadmill, it overheated. In the days following, we took turns running 5 minutes each on it, and gave it a 5 min break in between. We added to that a 30 min run on the very canted beach one morning, plus lots of snorkel-aided slow swimming, scuba diving, hiking and zip-lining in the rain forests, kayaking in the bay, and adrenaline-pumping driving on the wrong side of the narrow, pot-holed, 25% graded roads along the coast. Oh, and I almost forgot the climb up to Fort Rodney, which included some rock- and stair-climbing. Of course I have to include some pictures as evidence. 


First, the fort overlooking Rodney Bay:

 

At Diamond Waterfall in the Botanical Gardens:

Overlooking Soufriere and the Pitons:  

   

Kayaking....or rather, resting while sitting on a kayak: 

  

Demonstrating the zip-line perfect take-off form:

You really can't smile while holding a regulator in your mouth. This was the best we could do.

 

 

Hard to smile with a snorkel too... but Jeremy is doing a pretty good job.

 

We did spend a little time sitting on the beach drinking some rum.

I'll have to work on getting some videos online. Now back to lounging and drinking rum all day. I mean training. Yeah, that's it.