I've tried spinning classes exactly twice* now. Each time, the class totally kicked my ass, and I didn't go back for months. With my goal to bike a century this year, though, I've been thinking that I might like to give it another go.
This has been a passive sort of thinking...the kind where I say to myself, "gee, it might be good to try spinning again" as I'm sitting on the couch watching American Idol. Or Lost. Or CSI. Or sitting at my desk reading blogs. Whatever. At any rate, I only really considered it when I was comfortably on my ass, and not pedaling frantically in a dark room with a shouty perky person and trying not to pass out.
So anyway, Christine's post this morning about the 24-h0ur fitness class schedules got me thinking again. First about the water classes, a couple of which looked fun**. While I was looking up my preferred clubs' class schedules, I noticed that the location closest to my house has a beginner cycling class on Saturday mornings at 8, running from last weekend to February. The thinking has flipped from passive to active.
If I could take that class through February, then do actual rides on Saturday mornings after that, I could conceivably be in pretty good cycling shape by summer. I'm not all that bad now, actually, but I know there are some things I could work on--climbing hills, faster cadence, etc. If I could do the 50-mile (or 60, whichever it is) course at the K@ty Flatland, I could be ready to take on a 100 by the end of the year, I think.
It all really hinges on whether or not I can drag my butt out of bed before 7 on Saturday.
*I was going to link "twice" to the post I wrote about my second spinning class, but I can't find it in the archives. It's making me a little crazy, because I distinctly remember writing it...mentioning that the instructor was less shouty and weird this time. Anyway, the point of the Amazing Disappearing Post was that the second class was better than the first one, but I still didn't finish.
**but nearly impossible to get to, unfortunately, since my membership is Sport level only. I can't go to the Willowbrook location. The only Sport to offer the Aqua Sport and Aqua Xpress classes is 1960 & Jones, and the class times are just awkward enough that it would be a major hassle to get there on time.
Posted by Joy at January 19, 2005 09:41 AM