My kids that went to Vancouver. Of course one of mine decided to wear her purple instead of white!
Why would I partake in a class that has the word ‘Extreme’ in it? Well I am stupid sometimes and competitive the rest of the time.
The Wellness Center at my job offered a challenge to the employees to take ‘Extreme Body Sculpt’ class and being the athlete that I think I am, I jumped at it (more on this later).
Now I normally don’t take a lot of group classes because I tend to go overboard and pay for it later. Who really wants to see a grown man cry in a Pilate’s class?
These classes are a combination of movements that you never do in your daily routine, like the Push-up to Squat Jump!
I can do push-ups and I can do squats, why do I need to put them together?
Jumping is one of the activities that I shy away from after a knee surgery and arthritis, but remember I’m stupid and competitive.
Hey, I made it through three sets with minimal knee pain, but we weren’t done.
If this wasn’t in a class environment I would have stopped and walked away, but nooooooooooooo.
Hey, let’s do some jumping in place with our knees touching our outreached hands, are you kidding me?
Two sets of these and I can feel the throbbing in both knees, but we’re doing three sets.
Did I mention that all of this is being performed outside on concrete? I know, now the stupid in me kicks in.
So needless to say, I completed the class with my dignity in tack.
Now if I can only get my pants legs over my swollen knees……………..
The Wellness Center at my job offered a challenge to the employees to take ‘Extreme Body Sculpt’ class and being the athlete that I think I am, I jumped at it (more on this later).
Now I normally don’t take a lot of group classes because I tend to go overboard and pay for it later. Who really wants to see a grown man cry in a Pilate’s class?
These classes are a combination of movements that you never do in your daily routine, like the Push-up to Squat Jump!
I can do push-ups and I can do squats, why do I need to put them together?
Jumping is one of the activities that I shy away from after a knee surgery and arthritis, but remember I’m stupid and competitive.
Hey, I made it through three sets with minimal knee pain, but we weren’t done.
If this wasn’t in a class environment I would have stopped and walked away, but nooooooooooooo.
Hey, let’s do some jumping in place with our knees touching our outreached hands, are you kidding me?
Two sets of these and I can feel the throbbing in both knees, but we’re doing three sets.
Did I mention that all of this is being performed outside on concrete? I know, now the stupid in me kicks in.
So needless to say, I completed the class with my dignity in tack.
Now if I can only get my pants legs over my swollen knees……………..
I am no longer the last back of the pack slowest oldest runner with my Tuesday running/drinking group!No, I’m not running any faster, we just picked up a couple of slower runners.
We ran through the longest Winter I can remember here in the high five state, so you would think warm weather would be a blessing. Well not if you go from running in a long-sleeved Tee to going shirtless in one day?
Fortunately, we ran through on of the oldest cemeteries in the Detroit area. Now I normally don’t like running in circles but this run was different, the trees were in bloom and the grass even looked greener than normal. Don’t you just love spring?
Another positive was that the old body held up without any pain, oh happy day!
Needless to say after the run we partook in cold, glorious adult BEvERages.
Maybe I’ll get a chance to get on the bike if this heat wave continues.
Like most people, I like things simple, so I purchased my new toy because it was wireless, which translated into simple for me.
I remember the first wired computer I installed and didn’t want to go through that fiasco again. Who knew to wrap the wires around the bike stem?
So how can you spend three hours and two beers (obligatory beer reference) installing and configuring a wireless bike computer? The physical installation was pretty straight-forward but who knew that you would have to configure this thing?
The instructions were really of no use to me, even though they were printed in eighteen different languages.
This little 2.5 GHZ computer that has features my first car didn’t have needs to differentiate all of the signals that it was receiving from the numerous sensors on the bike. Is the signal coming from the heart-rate monitor or the cadence sensor or is it the speed that I’m cruising?
After several failed attempts at synching every signal, I was cruising down the street monitoring my RPM as my heart rate climbed along with my speed.
I can now tell other cyclist what the temperature is while riding, doesn’t everyone need to know that?
I am also glad to announce that my TNT team in Vancouver rocked! Most of the full marathoners wanted to run sub 4 and all of them did except one, who ran 4:03. Can you believe it, these people ran between 3:45 and 3:53! I am so proud of them all.
Go Team
I remember the first wired computer I installed and didn’t want to go through that fiasco again. Who knew to wrap the wires around the bike stem?
So how can you spend three hours and two beers (obligatory beer reference) installing and configuring a wireless bike computer? The physical installation was pretty straight-forward but who knew that you would have to configure this thing?
The instructions were really of no use to me, even though they were printed in eighteen different languages.
This little 2.5 GHZ computer that has features my first car didn’t have needs to differentiate all of the signals that it was receiving from the numerous sensors on the bike. Is the signal coming from the heart-rate monitor or the cadence sensor or is it the speed that I’m cruising?
After several failed attempts at synching every signal, I was cruising down the street monitoring my RPM as my heart rate climbed along with my speed.
I can now tell other cyclist what the temperature is while riding, doesn’t everyone need to know that?
I am also glad to announce that my TNT team in Vancouver rocked! Most of the full marathoners wanted to run sub 4 and all of them did except one, who ran 4:03. Can you believe it, these people ran between 3:45 and 3:53! I am so proud of them all.
Go Team
This is going to make me get out on the bike and ride like Lance!Now I have a heart rate monitor for whatever I’m doing. I have the Garmin, Polar and now the Trek.
Remember when you would just run or bike and not care about receiving a signal or if the distance was correct?
I plan on taking the bike outside today, even if it’s just riding trough the sub-division.
I did run this morning and it was a little chilly, when is the warmer weather coming?
Go Atlanta Hawks!
After my cramping episode, I decided to take another day off from running and just strength train. Why do I feel like a slacker for not running when the weather is conducive, especially since we had the winter from Hell!
It just doesn’t seem right to open the fridge and enjoy the cold refreshing flavor of that first beer, while you still have your work stuff in hand!
I’ve been reading that some bloggers have been receiving some free swag to try, so I plan to mention beer in every post for the next year!
Did you hear that, BEER!
Okay, not every day but whenever possible.
Good luck to my spring TNT members up in Vancouver, BC this Sunday, May 4, 2008. As one of the reporters from Vancouver coined the phrase, “May the fourth be with you”.
Corny but cute!
I need to find the time to get my bike off the trainer and onto the road, everyone else is already putting in miles. RunnerGirl is already taking part in a duathlon this weekend and I haven’t been outside yet?
So much to do and so little time…………………
It just doesn’t seem right to open the fridge and enjoy the cold refreshing flavor of that first beer, while you still have your work stuff in hand!
I’ve been reading that some bloggers have been receiving some free swag to try, so I plan to mention beer in every post for the next year!
Did you hear that, BEER!
Okay, not every day but whenever possible.
Good luck to my spring TNT members up in Vancouver, BC this Sunday, May 4, 2008. As one of the reporters from Vancouver coined the phrase, “May the fourth be with you”.
Corny but cute!
I need to find the time to get my bike off the trainer and onto the road, everyone else is already putting in miles. RunnerGirl is already taking part in a duathlon this weekend and I haven’t been outside yet?
So much to do and so little time…………………
This morning I was awaken to the worst muscle crap that I have ever had! Now we’ve all had the calf muscle cramps, where you can sorta walk them off and get back to bed with not a lot of noise but this was way different. I had the most excruciating pain in my left quad muscle that I’ve ever had. This was not one that a walk would get rid of. It was so bad that I scared the crap out of Sandy with my yelling. It’s also at these times when my mind just goes off into Lalaland.
Should I go to Emergency? For a crap!What if this is more than a cramp, I’m probably having a stroke!Where are my pants?I can’t see, I’m going blind too? Oh the lights are off……
After three minutes of massaging and having a heating pad placed on the area, I was finally able to lie back down in bed but my mind was going a thousand miles an hour. This is always when I find myself so vulnerable, in the middle of the night. My own mortality comes to the forefront of my mind. I start to think about all of the possible illnesses that I’ll probably contract and eventually cause my demise. I can’t even fight off the common cold, how am I going to handle cancer? What if I get one of those one month to live speeches? I am such a baby about this stuff.Hey the creator of LSD died the other day, he was 102 years old, maybe that’s what I need……
This getting old crap SUCKS!
Should I go to Emergency? For a crap!What if this is more than a cramp, I’m probably having a stroke!Where are my pants?I can’t see, I’m going blind too? Oh the lights are off……
After three minutes of massaging and having a heating pad placed on the area, I was finally able to lie back down in bed but my mind was going a thousand miles an hour. This is always when I find myself so vulnerable, in the middle of the night. My own mortality comes to the forefront of my mind. I start to think about all of the possible illnesses that I’ll probably contract and eventually cause my demise. I can’t even fight off the common cold, how am I going to handle cancer? What if I get one of those one month to live speeches? I am such a baby about this stuff.Hey the creator of LSD died the other day, he was 102 years old, maybe that’s what I need……
This getting old crap SUCKS!
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