Got My New Shoes On

Day 19:  I did not sleep last night.  I was looking for any excuse not to go to spin. Seriously. Any. Excuse.  But I figured since my gym buddy would be waiting for me to pick her up, I needed to be there.  So I got into my freezing cold car and went to pick her up. At her dark house.  

I waited. And waited.  No light, no movement.

My cool new shoes.

Now the question:  do I turn around and crawl back into bed or head over to the gym by myself.

I made the right choice.  I went to the gym.  I wanted to try out my new spin shoes.  

I got them in the mail on Tuesday.  I had Brian help me put the clips on the bottom (according to the directions I received) and then I went to the gym to see how they were adjusted and try to figure out how to clip in and out of the pedals without looking ridiculous.  I am very glad I did this.

Wednesday morning, I clipped into my pedals just fine.  Unfortunately, as the class progressed, I could tell that the clips were adjusted quite right.  I ended up pulling my right foot out of the clip and using the regular pedal.  I didn't want to cause any type of injury if I could avoid it.  

I was glad I went to class, but knew I would need to readjust my shoes before I went back on Friday.  This necessitated a trip up to Warwick.  They centered my clips a bit more and checked the alignment.  I should be good to go.

I am heading back to spin on Friday.  

Pump It Up

Day 18:  Tuesdays are the best!

Went back to exercise class at the gym on Tuesday.  I took a hiatus after my migraine on Friday.  I needed it.  Both the break and getting back to class.

The weights are good.  I get a good sweat going.  I still intensely dislike the abdominal workout.  

Stick figure not drawn to scale.

Done.

Day 17: 

Went into the gym today to complete one of the Pitstop Challenges for the Make Your Way Across America program at the gym.  Today's challenge was to complete one of the Google Map runs on the treadmill. 

This sounded like a good way to ease back into running.  My training for the Army 10 Miler was to begin on Sunday.

My gym buddy and I stepped onto the treadmills and picked the "Road to Hana" video workout and set off on a 35 minute run/walk workout.  

2.4 Miles

As you can see, it was a slow 2.4 miles.  And then the treadmill emailed the workout to my phone.  Pretty cool.

Gym buddy and I decided to celebrate our run with a trip to a super yummy burger joint. After I placed my order, I started to get a migraine aura.  We got the burgers to go ( I donated mine to her husband) and she drove me home and dropped me off.  I headed up to crawl into bed.  This was a bad one.  Six hours later, I was able to crawl back out of bed.

So now what?  I think I am done running.  I just can't keep getting migraines after I run.  I have had a lot of success with other forms of exercise and not getting migraines.  I will stick with that for now.  It's not worth the pain.