So I had a choice to make, my wonderful friends in bloggyland.
I could have gone to the gym, hopped on a bike and go for a good 45 or 50 minutes. Or I could have gone to the gym, hopped on a Schwinn and spun for 1 hour with the drill sargeant from hades. I did try her class about 2 months ago and vowed to never step foot back into that sweat shop. I did not even make it past 30 minutes I was so beat and confused. Her shouts make no sense to me. And to be quite honest, I am a lil scurred of the drill sargeant.
The decision was easy enough - bike on my own or give the spin-ster another go. Yet somehow I manged to mull over it for a good 25 minutes.
In the end opted to bike by myself and listen to a great cardio playlist that I had made for PF Chang' RNR AZ Half Marathon this past January. I got so into the music that at 33:03 minutes I had busted out 12.07 miles and had not really noticed. I do not know if that is good or not, but I will take it!
So this is sort of where the story gets interesting. Sort of. In a sick, sick way. After the bike, I drove home and stopped of at the workout center here. Yeah, that is not the sick part. The sick part is that I was there to see if the elliptical was free... I kid you not.
24 hours ago I hated the thing, now I sort of want to sneak in little elliptical miles here and there. Someone must have drugged me. When I find them... oh are they gonna pay!
Alas, the elliptical was not free this time, so I settleed on doing 1 set of 12 bicep curls on a rediculously crappy machine (gag) and a dreadmill opened up. I hopped on, busted out a quarter mile at a 1% slope in 3:00 and then called it a day.
Forward motion rocks. Seriously. ;)
Tomorrow I am doing 1 mile with my running club, as well as LB and core afterwards. I think that for the 1 mile I am just going to go easy because this will be my first run on pavement since... well I honestly lost track.
I hope that everyone is having a good week out there! A lot of the fall marathon and halfs are coming up shortly!
})i({ RunnerGirl
Bike: 33:03, 12.07miles, 21.9 miles per hour
Treadmill: .25 miles, 3:00Minutes, 1% incline
UB: Bicep Curls, 1/12/25#
CORE: 50 crunches
11 comments:
I hate mean trainers. life is too short to pay people to yell at you.
go with the tv and bike in peace.
I took your advice Pat - I did the bike and 1/4 mile on the dreadmill. lol... SMOOTH.
I hate treadmills. You run and run but don't get anywhere. I can never go more then 2 miles simply out of boredum.
My mom signed me up for spinning with her. She loves it! Simply LOVES it. I, however, went to one class, and vowed that I would never again do that.
So I admire your determination to stay with it.. and do it, I run some days because I hate machines... a lot. (And the elliptical? really?)
i can't believe you went to see if the elliptical was free!
hey! new profile pic. like it.
I've never liked spin class. shrug. I don't like treadmills either. I guess I'm just an outside kinda' girl.
I would've avoided the spin-devil as well.
Hey there... not sure how I stumbled across your blog but just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. I have lost about 70 lbs and just ran my first marathon... and now I'm struggling with how to get back on a normal gym routine and lose these last 30. Your post today got me really fired up to go join a gym and "feel the burn" again.
Thanks! And nice to meet you!
~jessica
Boy, I thought this would end with you in the spinning class putting your bike in the front of the class and outlasting the DI! I heart spinning class, I love shouting back at the instructors. It was good that you went looking for your nemesis to confront your demons.
Sounds like you are turning into a real gym rat :).
Spinning has a place, but you can't do intervals on every bike ride, you'll just get beat up and burned out.
Get a trainer for your own bike over the winter, and catch up on that big pile of DVDs you have not watched yet. There are also a ton of Spinervals DVDs you can get:
http://www.spinervals.com/
I hate trainers from HELL. One should not have to put with that crap.
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