I got up around 7 am in order to do some cheery good morning pilates. Marni called and said, "Hey hon! You ready for your first spin class at 9:30?" I said, "You betchya' cannot wait! Is Ginger going?" Marni replies, "Yes, she'll be there but we have to keep her from flirting with Tip … she can get so distracted with him around." After a few minutes of chit chat while waxing my Lexus, I went to have a bowl of South Beach High Fiber cereal with organic 1% milk.
Num nums for my tum tums! I am so serious 
.
On the way to the gym I thought a good quick pick me up would be and Iced Venti Skinny Vanilla latte. So I picked up six of them for our "crew." Once I got to the gym and handed them out, we guys all just laughed with hearty chuckles and the girls in pony tails, Marsha in pig tails … silly Marsha, giggled.
I mean seriously, we are SO addicted to Starbucks. It's how we roll and it's just SO crazy!
So, I met the trainer, Lori, and she was so cute. Very soft spoken and good for encouragement. During the class, we listened to a lot of vintage Amy Grant and when things got a little "crazy" we listened to Old School Wham. OMG(osh) how crazy is it to hear "Wake Me Up before you Go Go" while riding a stationary bike at 9:45 am! Our crew just looked at each other and chuckagiggled. And this Lori, HA! She wasn't merciful either! Good Gracious no! after about 40 minutes I even broke a sweat and had to whip out my personal battery powered hand fan while sucking down the last of my latte.
Afterward we all slapped each other on the back … more chuckling … more giggling … and then we all went off in our separate luxury cars and made afternoon plans for beach volleyball.
Now if you, dear reader, are thinking,"hey… that doesn't sound quite right and it certainly doesn't match the picture." *YOU* are very smart! The above is not exactly what happened.
I woke up grumpy at 8:40 for my appointment at 9 with a trainer named Kyle. I don't have a Lexus and I won't ever wax my own car if I have choice. I ate two tablespoons of peanut butter because that is all I had time for. I drank a Diet Coke Plus on the way there while praying that I wouldn't bail out of going. If there is a true use of a capitalized SO, I was SO ready to bail out.
I got to the gym and Kyle was very excited and not at all clued in to the fact that I had only been awake for 20 minutes. I did a half hour "trot" on the elliptical machine to warm up. Kevin loves Kyle in that Trainer to newbie Trainee kind of way. Kevin was telling me how great Kyle was while we were trotting and he was cool. I hate to admit this but he is older and heavier so I thought that at least I wouldn't be alone among the sleek and fit people lining up for the spin class.
::: roll eyes ::: Kevin totally kicked my tail.
There was no air, it was dark, we didn't listen to Amy Grant or George Michael pre or post Wham. The only 80's group we heard from was Dead Or Alive singing "You Spin Me Rides Right Round Baby Rides Right Round like a Record baby Rides Right Round Round Round."
oh.the.irony.on.SO.many.levels.
Kyle didn't explain that this spinning class was an advanced extended class. It didn't matter because after five minutes everything below my belly button to my toes went numb. About 10 minutes into it, Wonder Woman Trainer, said that we should now be at around a 7 on the scale of endurance. I was at 83 after only five minutes into it and was doing my best to not throw up.
Quickly my goal was to maintain my heart-rate at max and do what I could to at least go through the motions and keep pushing myself. I am pretty secure in the gym so knowing that it was my first spin and not a beginners class, I wasn't embarrassed when I just couldn't go "… up the Mountain" with the rest of the class listening to the loudest ever version of "Let's get it started!" by The Black Eyed Peas.
Kyle left the class a little early and that might be a good thing. Kevin was encouraging.
I did stay the whole hour and am thinking about sticking with the Saturday class. I like goals and competition. We shall see .
{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }
Randy, Randy, Randy … sigh. I love you and I’m so glad you’re sticking with it. But the Dead or Alive song is actually “You spin me RIGHT ’round, baby …” British, y’know?
You should talk to some people who used to be in my Spin class. Sounds like you have it kind of easy to me.
Thanks for the correction Karla. A part of me is enjoying that I had that wrong for over 20 years.
. You scare me a little with that “sounds easy” business.
:-p
And, it wasn’t easy you meany
lol.. I remember my first spin class, I thought it was going to be a piece of cake because I’m use to running but Oh my goodness was I so wrong. About 15 minutes into the class, I was sucking wind and wondering why on earth I picked the bike on the front row. Glad to hear you made it through the class. My advice is Not to pick any bike on the front row.
Good luck with your next class. :tawanda:
LOL!! I love your fantasy version, Randy. That’s my fantasy of the perfect spin class.
Spin is the hardest endurance training exercise that I’ve ever done. I run up to 8 mph during my sprint interval training on the treadmill 3 days per week. So before I took my first spin class, I thought I was an unstoppable force of nature. Not so much. I only made it through 25 minutes of my first spin class and had to lie on one of the benches in the ladies’ locker room for about 20 minutes afterward. Quite embarrassing. You impress me, once again.
I knew at the Lexus part something was amiss
Brenna Kater, the Ocean Skaters last blog post..Why Does God Let Babies Die? on … http://oceanskater.blogspot.com
@Amy I know. I picked the back row this time with that in mind. Thanks for the well wishes. What is “tawanda?”
@Tami ::: laugh ::: glad you like the fiction version … if only it were like that right? One friend asked me how it went and I said,”it’s like riding to hell on a stationary bike.” I was so glad they laughed.
@Brenna nothing sneaks past you
tawanda is the saying that Kathy Bates used in Fried green tomatoes. It was her saying for pressing through with power even though she was not as young as she use to be. I love it when she slams into the car at the grocery store and said “I’m older and I have more insurance”, if you haven’t seen this movie it’s a great one to add to any collection.
I thought it sounded familiar. That was a great movie. I don’t think I own it though. I own a bunch of movies.
so tawanda!
Tawanda!, Randissimo! That’s a great word!
Tawanda Susanama!