I guess we are either spoiled or just stronger athletes in Woodbury or maybe neither. Most classes outside of our EQ are 45-minute stationary excursions. And truth be told I think maybe or a year or two a go Kristen said that spin classes are better designed for the ¾ hour rather than the 60-minute versions we are so accustomed to. I guess that if cognitively I knew that the class was only going to be 45 minutes I suppose I might work out at an even higher level than I do now. (Some of my friends are saying harder than you workout now? Really Jack?)
I am in Central Florida taking care of my aging father this week while my dear sister Nancy and her husband are visiting family in N.C. However the Sebastian Gym in the city of the same name has a limited number of spin classes and tonight I took a 2nd with a Ms. Diane Rauff. A splendid athlete if physiology is any judge and her eccentric like call was a spirited workout and left me in the usual way; puddles beneath my bike and a soaked jersey and shorts.
The discography was rock and essentially for this writer superfluous to my ride but the intimate setting of 15 bikes in a circle on Greg LeMond RevMasters provided a strong energy field even though no one except yours truly was bellowing at the top of his lungs. These bikes are collector items and rather than say they are from the year of the Great Flood these antiques were in great working order considering their advanced age. The wheels much narrower than our Schwinn’s back home serve to make the bike much lighter and easy to move about than ours in the Lavender Palace.
The ride here was more in saddle than up in #3 which I am not accustomed to but Diane had us do 100 jumps in rapid succession which proved to be the strongest part of the ride and had me breathless. As we counted off each interval of 10 edging closer to the century mark I was reminded of 100 bottles of beer on the wall a silly song from my youth. At rides end I asked Diane for her FB page and hopefully she won’t mind this entry in her name.
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