Reentry

Is there life without spin? Well of course but life is just a bit different nonetheless. The discipline of the exercise regimen has so much less resistance with spin in your life. One knows when all the classes are from the carefully assembled schedule and by simply showing up all we need do is put in the pedal stroke. Take the schedule out and exercise can be catch as catch can, which is where we lose our footing. The intricacies of life with all its currents and eddies makes exercise seem like a luxury and almost every task our mind can think of gets advanced to the higher priority. Oh I will get to the club but I just don’t know when. Not knowing when can make a world of difference in the state of our mind and of course the state of our body. 

As much as exercise is an "outside job" the actual work is the ultimate “inside job” What goes on in our conscious mind is the thing.  When we complete a class we feel just a bit more ready to take on the world than without it.  Exercise although it expends energy makes us perform at a higher rate than if we remained sedentary. Using some of the fuel we wake up with everyday when burned gives rise to a more efficient use of what is still left in the tank.  A higher octane if you will. We pay more but we get more MPG.  

When Kristen2 asked me if I was all right her query was raised because my pen had gone silent. It’s so true that my own rocket fuel to write is prospered by that magic flywheel and that little red resistance wheel.  So now as my reentry back into the club is renewed I am certain that my gift of afflatus will return.  At least I hope so because this piece is as flat as a crushed thumbtack. 

I was going to call this piece Outside the Spin Room but since I was able to catch the 7 PM Monday class with John Kocaj I changed it to Reentry. And coming back to spin class with John instructing was probably the best thing I could do. John is an erudite teacher with a choreography that is very precise and he adds the dimension of what a thinking man’s version of what spin class  looks like. It’s not so much about the music with John it’s the content. It’s what I came away with which was more important. Instead of going like a banshee his approach had me ease into the pedal stroke and suffice it to say that by rides end I was feeling like I hadn’t missed a class rather than more than a dozen. Take John he’s distinctive and his approach to class is different and as to how you’ll have to leave that as something that is purely individual and experiential known only to you.