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Full house at 6am for T25 with Shaun T!

I woke up early Friday morning with the intention to do the T25 workout, but honestly just felt like going back to bed. Thanks to Dianna’s encouragement, I dragged my lazy butt out of bed and got changed. Once we got to the conference area, we decided to line up for the 21 Day Fix workout instead, but we weren’t even close to getting in, so we ended up at T25 after all. This was my first time doing T25 and it was pretty great! Shaun T ran off the stage a few times and was working out one-on-one with a few people.

“I Love Failure” – Darren Hardy’s awesome keynote speech!

The morning general session included the official announcement of the Canada launch (hooray!) and Darren Hardy’s keynote speech. Before going to Summit, I would say I was most excited for Darren Hardy, since I figured I wouldn’t get a chance to meet Chalene Johnson. Yes, his presentation was awesome!

Meeting Chalene Johnson!!!!!!!!

After the general session, I rushed to grab my lunch and get in line for the photo op session.I was a little disappointed that you were only allowed one trainer photo (plus Carl) and if you wanted another, you would have to get back in line outside the room. I was really thinking it would work more like a station-to-station system, where you would take one photo with one trainer and then move on to the next photo station. That would seem more efficient to me, but then, what do I know? I’m not a conference organizer.

My photos with Chalene and Tony!

Anyway, while I was in line for Chalene, I asked a girl behind me (hi Daniell!) to take photos for me and I would return the favour. She got some great shots of me meeting Chalene. When I went up to meet Chalene, she commented on the fact that she hadn’t seen the PiYo shirt I was wearing before, so I turned around to show her the drapey back. Then I gave her a hug and she told me I was gorgeous! WHAT?! Chalene Johnson, telling ME I’m gorgeous?? Have you SEEN yourself in the mirror, lady? I managed to squeak out a ‘thank you’ and something along the lines of ‘NO, YOU ARE’ before the photographer started snapping. I still can’t get over how nice Chalene was and how genuine she seemed in all her photos. Oh, and I honestly regret not packing my heels with me for the photo op. I think I’m only a teeny bit shorter than her! Not to worry though; my goal is to buy myself a pair of Louboutins one day! (Actually, many pairs.) I also snuck in a photo with Tony Horton before I left the room! He was really nice and I pulled a goofy face for our second shot.

The first day of general sessions were great! I wish I could have cloned myself to be able to attend every single one. After the sessions, I got changed and in line for P90! This was the first live workout for it and I loved it! I’m so excited for it to launch! (As excited as I was for PiYo!)

Chalene opening up the workout! // Post-workout with my new Team BOSS friends!

I woke up early Saturday morning to head down to registration and claim my wrist band for the VIP workout area for the Super Workout. (Did I forget to mention that I won the wrist band by finding a golden ticket inside my PiYo kit? I probably could have won some money that weekend based on my luck, but I’m not much for gambling.) I met up with Cheryl and Denise and we weaved our way up front to where Chanda was saving us a spot. Unfortunately, we were all told to step forward to fill in the gaps in the crowd (they were filming), and our area ended up being super packed. Whatever happened to the arms’ length space test, right? Some of the workouts were really hard for me to do (risk of accidentally kicking a very pregnant girl behind me? No thanks!!), but in general, the workout was awesome! Chalene Johnson opened up the workout with a PiYo warm-up, then Tony Horton did P90, Joel Freeman and Jericho McDuffie for Les Mills Combat (loved it!!), Autumn Calabrese did 21 Day Fix, and then finally Shaun T with Focus T25, some Insanity and Asylum, as well a little Hip Hop Abs. Fantastic! After the workout, we made a pit stop at the Shakeology bar for breakfast.

Checking out the Shakeology bar! // Carl wrapping up the morning’s session!

Saturday’s keynote was Dianna Nyad, which we missed the beginning of, but what we caught brought tears to my eyes and me to my feet at the end.

The last day of workshops was just as good as the first day. I had one last dinner with my roommates (delicious Mexican food from Gonzalez Y Gonzalez), then ran off to the airport to head back to Vancouver. Yes, unfortunately, I had to skip the celebration party that night, because I had a 5K to run first thing the next morning!

Summit was so great! I cannot express how grateful I am to everyone who made the trip so memorable and I can’t wait to be in Nashville next summer!