W#6--Tuesday

Recovery: None
Breakfast: 3 eggs whites and spinach. 1 piece of whole grain toast with butter and jam. Small bowl of fruit.
Lunch: 1 Chicken Wrap with a small bag of sunchips, 1 glass of carrot juice
Snack: a handful of whole natural almonds
Dinner: 1/2 of a piece of facaccia. Salmon, greens and couscous dipped ian a little cream sauce. 4 bites of spiral pasta with red sauce.
Snack: 1/2 of a spring roll


I was about 10 minutes late this morning. I needed to make sure that I made the morning because I had plans for the evening.

Today Karen joined us. It is so nice that she was able to make it and experience it. I checked in with her a little later and she said that she wishes she lived closer so that she could join more often.

Today my arms were hurting, and I couldn't figure out why because we didn't do any pushups or weights... but then I remembered how in the beginning of the workout, Rudy had us do speed interval punching. I am amazed that it worked my arms that much! I didn't realize!

We also did sprints in the parking lot. At first I was able to sprint really quickly, then it was hard, but then I remembered that we usually do this in sand, so that helped me keep going.

One thing Rudy said today that I thought was right on and very cool was when he said, "This is what it takes to be the best!" I usually say to myself, "I'm not really desiring to be 'the best'". This time he said something more along the lines of, "This takes to be your best." I think that resounded with me more. I am trying to be my best self. Not trying to really 'beat' anyone, just pull out my best.

We finished our warmup with the killer kicks. 20 straight out in front, each side. 20 out 45 degrees from the body and 20 90 degrees from the body. I feel like an Oompa Loompa when I get to that point.

A few more runs around the parking lot and then we headed upstairs to the spinning room!

As soon as we started to pedal, Rudy said he didn't want to mess around and wanted us to start with two full cranks to the right. I did but just couldn't sustain it! So when Sal came by, I whined how my legs were dead and he helped me to adjust my resistance, I guess I had it turned too much. THANK GOODNESS!

Now once Rudy had us lighten it up a bit and go 'as fast as you can!' for I think 30 seconds and then we slow it down for ten and then go fast for 30 seconds. I don't know how many times we did this, maybe 8? But the last one he had us do was go as fast as you can for 1 minute!

I think the mindset that I put on that helps me when he asks us to go 'as fast as we can', to really go as fast as I can... I simply imagine needing to pedal fast enough to get out of an exploding building or to get somewhere to rescue someone before it's too late... the time is ticking down... only 1 minute...how hard would I push? How fast could my legs carry me? I wonder what other people think of during those times when Rudy is on the mic and calling out to us to do our best?

Well, I got one of the pedals off today. God bless Luis for helping me get the other one off. It seems I go from this crazy workout monster to instantly a damsel in distress looking for someone to help me get my darn pedals off. So much for being able to 'tear it up'! hahaha