Outdoor Spin
I decided to make the forty minute trek to my favorite gym today to attend Mike McBlessings’ spin class. Mike is the founder of a super organization, the Getting2Tri Foundation, and he teaches spinning a few days a week. Today, Mike had rolled all the spin bikes outside near the pool. Outdoor spin class! Outdoor spin […]
Spinning Etiquette
I love spinning class. I can’t get rides in during the week, so it’s the next best thing. But really, correction: I love spinning class with Coach Monster, McBlessings and a scant few others. I have had some bad spinning experiences to date, outside of my little Concourse Athletic Club bubble. Yes, a bad spinning instructor is […]
Brick Laying
Today was my first brick since before St. Anthony’s….and lawd, was it was obvious. Now, I didn’t start out in the best of conditions – last night, we had a couple of people over (i.e., a little too much to drink..), and I woke up feeling the drums in my head. Not big huge drums, but […]
Sunday Ride
A beautiful day to be on a bike. The Expert and I went to the Silver Comet Trail for forty-four miles of fun. It was nice to have a riding buddy for once. Lots of debris on the trail from the recent storms, so I had to pay super duper attention, keeping Swim Bike Klutz in […]
40 Mile Balancing Act
Last night, I woke up and heard thunder. I thought, “Whew. I just got out of that forty-miler on the bike tomorrow.” (Yes, some people ride in the rain; someone as clumsy as me…absolutely does not.) My alarm buzzed around 6:00, and I peeked outside. Dry as a bone. I walked by the coffeepot and […]
Fat Bottomed Girl
Coach Monster often plays the song “Fat Bottomed Girls” in his spin class. I told him awhile back that I didn’t like that song because being the only fat bottomed girl in the class, I felt everyone staring at me. Plus, it’s an “out of the saddle” song. Even worse. He brushed me off, told […]
Panic. Bike. Walk.
PART I: PANIC: Forty-three degrees outside this morning. Sixty-two degrees in the lake. The Expert and I head out early. We stop at the gate to Lake Lanier’s Mary Alice Park. Time for the Inaugural Swim Bike Mom’s Swim Bike Run Event (a/k/a two weeks to race day). The old guy waiting at the guard […]
Comet Crushed!
The last time I went to the Silver Comet Trail (back in September) for a ride, things didn’t go so well for me. I had taken the old G-Force bike out where I proceeded to fall twice: Total crash-o-la. But not any real heroic or “cool” crashes. Super lame crashes. I mean “crash” as in both times getting stuck in my clips […]
Reasons to Roll the Bike Back to the Corner
The spinning classes I regularly attend are exceptionally well-taught, cycling-driven classes full of triathletes, marathoners, and general crazy fitness people. The instructors consist of Coach Monster, Ironman Mike and Ironwoman Sarah, to name a few. Hardcore folks. And what a luxury, and I am very blessed to have access to such great classes and instruction. […]