The Century Mark

Something special. That’s what I told Kristen. I wanted to write something extraordinary in the 100^th post on Kristen’s Spin Class.  Your readership has made finding this blog easy as pie. Google:  Kristen’s Spin Class and there we are.   Never have I had the inspiration to write on virtually a daily basis as I have had writing about what goes on in this studio. 

I checked with my friend at Cycle Fusion and he found our blog amongst so many spin blogs and he said it was the way Kristen was described by us as the reason why he came here to observe what we already knew; we have the top instructor in the country.  Yes, yes Kristen might defer but we all know better.  We all know about her trips around the country teaching other instructors in the best club in America, Equinox. Just because we pay the most for our membership isn’t the only reason why it’s the best. It’s the best because the club is always on the cutting edge of what it’s member’s want and then giving it to us with the best exercise physiologists the country has to offer.

And no I do not work for Equinox but I have been here since day one in April of 2003 and it wasn’t until February 1 of this year did I come to grips with what this phenomena is all about. I was just lucky I found the Blonde Dynamo to help indoctrinate me to my commitment to get fit and lose weight but most important: to have fun.  How can it be any better?  Oh oh I said I would never give Kristen a nickname and I have done it twice in one week.

Hey I did say special didn’t I? 

Think about this for a minute. We are all in a room on a stationary bike, we don’t go anywhere, we have no brakes and yet we have gone up and down more hills than the Adirondacks and Catskills combined. And then to top it off we get a design for living, which has been described by me as a blend between a 12-step program and Zen spoken like a book on tape by a woman that we are all so fond of. We all know she’s not hard on the eyes but it’s what she says when she opens her mouth where the precious gems lie.  I call it Kristen Doctrine but you may have another phrase in mind.    Plenty of life’s lessons we have heard here.  Like leaving our outside life beyond the glass doors. When we are in the CS there is nothing else and virtually everything else can wait until we walk out. 

Last week Kristen was glancing at the poor things outside on the elliptical machines as if to say what are they doing? When I finish each session I make it a point to do a loop around the club and take in all the activity and there is a sense of pride that I really, really worked out.   Hey I was one of those poor souls and I used to think I broke my ass out there but I was just kidding myself because within this pentagon the real action takes place and it’s here I intend to stay. 

I was talking to Nancy on Tuesday in Roslyn and I asked her what was it about spinning in KSC like for her.  She said:  It’s like a drug, there is no better high you can get than spinning, especially when you get off the bike.  I have to agree I know all about addictions and this one has it’s own special flavor because you use your imagination and physical effort a lethal combination.

I would love to ask some of you to talk to me and tell me just what it is that KSC is for you.  No I am not running out of stories I think I have 1,000 left in me.

Kristen what have you to say please?