Posts Tagged ‘spin’

This is what running (on the dreadmill) does to my heart rate:

 

This is what spinning does to my heart rate…

 

This is what work does to my heart rate…

 

Just kidding.  I have been busy, but I do have a few pictures from some eats over the weekend to share…

 

On Saturday, the sunrise was amazing

… For those that are curious, we did not run the relay.  Jared didn’t want to.  Yes I was very disappointed by him/it.

 

I eventually got over it and we passed out Halloween candy.  Ambrose was cold (hence the blanket), and his costume was ill-fitting, but he was loved regardless.

 

Chicken chili was made and ate and enjoyed. 

 

As well as pumpkin cookies.  I will post recipes for both. 

 

Jared and I are now focusing on going to New York in a few weeks.  I am excited.  I need a vacation.

Well, the anticipated run Jared and I were going to do has been cancelled due to the rain.  I know my man, and he will not run in the rain for leisure.  My back-up plan is to go to the gym for spinning.  I must say, I am disappointed in it all.  Maybe the rain will be gone on Sunday. 

 

This weekend we have nothing planned.  No family events.  No travel.  Rest and Relaxation.  Anything we do will be spur of the moment and random. 

Thank goodness. 

 

Last night, I was fast asleep having a nightmare that the guy who was harassing me found our house.  Just then, Jared came into the room and turned off the light.  It was pitch black and I said “who’s there” after shooting straight up.  It was Jared and I didn’t know… He didn’t answer.  Jerk.  Not Jared, but the guy who is not giving me nightmares.

I felt like a kid on the slow bus yesterday in spin.  I had the same instructor as Sunday, who was hard core, and I when I entered the room and saw her, I was like “oh shit”.  Then I made the mistake of asking her why my knees hurt after spin and she said “You were here this past Sunday, right?”  “Yes”  So she came over to my bike, adjusted a few things, and told me my knees were pointed outward when I peddle.  Okay.  Sure.  I wasn’t disagreeing, but I don’t know how that happens, it must all be subconscious. 

 

So class started, the sweat started, and she got off her bike, came back over to me, and adjusted the seat again, then increased the resistance.  Like, not a little, but a lot.  And then the sweat really begins, and I am like holy shit.  I felt like I was the only one in the room really working.  I later did a quick glace at the surrounding bikes and realized, people don’t increase the resistance when she instructs us to.  Then I snicker to myself knowing I did. 

 

I’ve been wearing my Garmin in the gym to gauge my HR.  I’m not really obsessed with my HRM, but I find it interesting to see how these classes get my HR up.

 

Now, that class is an hour long, but I obliviously forgot to turn it on at the beginning.  You can see I was grasping for life by the end.  When I got home, I couldn’t sit because I also went to “Body Works Plus Abs” prior to spin because I wanted to do my little comparison.  The instructor was 30 minutes late, we did some crazy moves, it was… okay.  I wasn’t thrilled with it. 

 

I got home, starving and dehydrated, but felt very accomplished thanks in part to the fact that once I saw a few others with no resistance, I knew I was doing what I needed.  I just wonder if spin will get any easier?

 

Happy Friday!

 

PS—I will be registering Jared and I for the Spirit of Pittsburgh Half Relay, soon!  Just as soon as I swallow the $100 fee.