My Journey of Change

Just want to upload my time before I chuck my kids in bed.  Same route as 2 days ago…this time 9:39:13.  Nearly a minute faster.  Yay!  Holy crap, I’m pouring sweat…Adrenaline tomorrow!

Run again tonight.  Can’t go to Adrenaline tomorrow cuz going to work late due to dr. appt.  Run was a little longer but slower.  10:26:44.  Now if I can just avoid the Resse’s Peanut Butter cups tonight…

Well, after a week of 3 group fitness classes and one day of heavy weights, I went for another run today.  This was my mile circuit again.  Completed in a time of 9:23:38.  It was quicker, which is awesome, but the second doubly awesome thing is that at the end, my son joined me and I ended up running a little further than my mile.  I told him to watch for me running up the block, which he did, and he joined me at the front of the house and we ran around our block again (I normally start my run with a run around the block then go around other the other parts of the neighborhood).  It was an extra 300m or so, and I don’t even feel super winded after the workout.  And I got to include one of my kids in my workout plans - something he’s been asking for.  Freakin’ AWESOME!!!

So I woke up a little sore today from yesterday’s spinning class.  Right from the get-go, I decided that since I did cardio yesterday, I would do weights today.  11:30 rolls around and I grab my gym bag and walk to the gym.  At the front desk, theres a bit of more people there than usual - talking about some class that’s just starting up or some junk…I didn’t pay too much attention.  As I’m getting changed, the music stops and a woman’s voice comes over the P.A. system: "Hey everybody!  Come on out and try out our brand new Adrenaline class starting up in 5 minutes!!  A great mix of cardio and weights, etc…"  Hmm…weights you say?  I want to to do weights….why not?!?

Ho-Lee Crap!

Turns out it was this circuit training/boot camp/kick you in the face while your hands are tied behind your back kind of thing.  Then there was this sprinting thing, and core work.  It was harder than the spinning class.  Brutal.  I still have a light sweat going on almost an hour later.  My back is sore (not sure why) and yeah…brutal.

Calories burned - somewhere around 600-700 in 35 mins.

SIX TO SEVEN HUNDRED!!!

I think I’ll be back next week.

So I’ve decided to try to up my cardio capacity, and I took my first spinning class today.  I was pretty nervous about it at first, as I’ve never really taken a group fitness class before, and I’d hate to be that person that left after 10 mins cause I couldn’t hack it.  (Although, after 10 mins, I felt like it!)  Anyways, I make it kind of easy on myself…not too easy - but I didn’t kill myself either.  The tunez were awesome and I think I gave it a decent effort.  2 things happened that were bad:

1)  My arm rests collapsed on me.  I didn’t hurt myself, but it might have been funny to see.  Then, when I tried to pull it back up, I ripped it out and couldn’t get the damn thing back in.  I just hopped on the next bike and kept going.  I fixed it after class.

2)  I got a stich (cramp, whatever) near the end, so I just biked for one song.  Least I didn’t quit.

I’m still sweating sittin here at my desk and class ended over half an hour ago.  I’m going to try it again Wednesday.  I figger around 600+ calories in 35 mins.

New route - longer.  After I was done, I jumped in the car, reset the odometer and actually measured it out.  Turns out it was exactly 1600 m.  Completed in 9:35:40.  Average pace:  10.01739 km/hr (or 6.2245056243 mph for you Ameri-folk out there - which is most of you).  Yeah, its slow, but my cardio sucks ok?    Cals burned:  183-ish.

Speed calculator: http://www.gazza.co.nz/distance.html

Calorie calculator: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/calories.htm

Squeezed in a run before the downpour.  8:08:22.  Still getting over being sick.  Thinkin of switchin it up again…focus more on cardio than muscles…stay tuned…