End of Week

I'm playing catch-up today.

Thursday I went to the gym not feeling quite up to par and when I saw the "Take it to a 9" instructor, I kept walking past the door to spin class.  Ha!  Yep, I wimped out.  Instead, I tried out their other spin bikes that are just outside the door.  They have some pretty cool machinery with interactive screens and I could do a "spin class" with an instructor on screen.  So I tried it out and liked it.  I could hear the music from the spin class and did smirk a little when I heard her say "A 9! Take it to a 9!"  I'll be back next Thursday for the beating!  I did 13 miles in 35 minutes and felt great about that.  I tried to keep my cadence close to 90.

Friday was all about trying to get this dang heart to misfire.  It's been one week since I got the monitor and, of course, nothing has happened.  So I went out to kill myself.  I tried everything!  Jogging, running, sprinting, jog-sprint, walk-sprint, jumping in the middle of my run, running up and down the curb, and guess what happened? NOTHING!  Piece of junk!!

And today, I took my bike to Brigham to go on a ride with Dad again.  Gma J was having a bad day so he didn't come with me and I had to venture out on my own.  Guess what happened?  FLAT TIRE!!  This cannot be happening to me!  The ironic thing is that Travis put Mr. Tuffy's in the tire on the way to Brigham to prevent flats and then I get one 25 minutes in to the ride....Sigh.....will it ever end?  Dad says he's going to armor my bike for me. :)  Travis came out and helped me fix the flat, however I was pretty chilled by that time from the wind and slight rain.  I did try to continue after, but had to turn around and head home.  Therefore, I only got in about half the ride.    I still like my bike, though.  And my new wool socks and shoe covers worked great!