Ran 1 mile
Walked .5 mile
Last night I went to my first ever spin class.. Oh my goodness.. can we say intense? I had thought it was going to be a challenge, but I didn't realize how hard it would be. The instructor was crazy. There were 4 hill songs where we were on max resistance, to the point where I could barely move the pedals. One song, the sprinting song, we were going so fast, alternating standing up and sitting down, that I thought I was going to fall off and need to use the emergency lever. We also did some jumping move that was sort of like moving forward and then going into a sort of push up move on the handlebars. I tried to do everything, but there were some moves that I couldn't do, and there were some times where I just had to stand in place and cycle that way. About halfway through the 45 minute class, I realized that I was going to be very sore the next day... well, that is the understatement of the year. My butt and leg muscles are so incredibly sore that it hurts to sit.. or lay down.. or stand.. or do anything. The instructor was very cruel. I developed a love/hate relationship with him during that 45 minute session. He was very nice and knew that it was my first session so he told me a few modified moves, but then he also knew when I could give a little more and didn't hesitate to tell me so. The real killer was at the end, when we were stretching. I thought that we were all done for the night; but at the last second before we left he made us do 30 squats... no big deal if it weren't for the fact that I already beat up those muscles in his class. Despite all of the pain, I got a great workout in to fun, upbeat music. Clearly these muscles needing to be worked, and let me tell you -- they were! I'm planning on going back tomorrow night.. am I insane? probably!
This morning I was disappointed because I wasn't able to run with Danielle and Deb. We had chatted last night and set a goal for 3 miles, which I was excited about. However, for the past couple of days, Sully has had pretty bad diarrhea. I was hoping that it would be gone by this morning, but it wasn't. Sean has had to take him out multiple times a night for the past two nights. I obviously couldn't take him running with me this morning like I usually do, but I was afraid of what I might come home to if I left him at home. So, I had to cancel at the last minute, which meant that I also had to do my run alone tonight after work.
Thankfully, Sean was home when I got out of work, so I headed out on a run. I decided to just do a short recovery run, and ended up doing a mile. There were two hills on this run! I was excited because I got some hill practice in, which I mentioned in my last post that I clearly need. I actually really enjoyed the route that I ran tonight. It was the first time I ran in this area. I needed to pick up some groceries, so I parked at Shaws and ran in a local neighborhood near there. Since I didn't run through the entire neighborhood, and because I enjoyed it, I think that I will run it again.
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| The Route! |
It was weird running solo. Every since I joined the MRTT group, I have run with at least one other person. While I prefer running with somebody else, it was nice to be out there running by myself. Because Sully was sick, I didn't even have him, which hasn't happened in I don't know how long. I have group runs the next three days, which I'm excited about.
Other than that, we had a delicious dinner tonight. I made coconut crusted chicken tenders with a raspberry orange balsamic sauce. I served it with a side of dill carrots. Yumm. I also bought this new wine tonight. It is made by Barefoot. It's called Refresh and it is meant to be refreshing and drank over ice. It's delicious!
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| Dinner |
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| Delicious Wine |
I think that I'm finally ready to start my run everyday challenge again. I am planning to take a rest day on Sunday. Today is day one.. we'll see how this goes!
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