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TRI Week 07: Tuesday 03/14 - Spinning March 14, 2006

Posted by Amber D. Evans in : Cycling, Chico CA, Training Stats , add a comment

"Despite being sick (and eating cookies) yesterday, I did pretty well today."

Context

City, State: Chico, CA.
Location: Chico Sports Club.
Course: Spinning Room.
Terrain: Mixed.
Time: 02:00:00.
RPE: 7 (hard-heavy).
HRR: 154-174 (Aerobic High).
HR(avg.): 162.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The Spinning Class

Synopsis

Overall

Despite being sick (and eating cookies) yesterday, I did pretty well today. Yesterday, I just felt like crap. I had a pounding headache and slight nausea. It didn't help that all I did was watch a marathon of Smallville reruns and eat cookies all day. (Really, I did. They were delicious.)

It would've been a decent recoup day, except that my mom was saying stupid things like, "Wow! You really fell off the bandwagon! You ate all those cookies! You're having a bad food day! When you fall apart, you really fall apart." Oh, geez. I don't need to hear this shit.

I very obviously rolled my eyes at her and said, "No. I just do this sometimes. It's not the end of the world. So, I ate a few cookies. Big deal. It's not like I don't go and workout five or more days a week." Sheesh. I'm not the one with food-guilt issues for freakin' sakes. I don't deprive myself all day and obsess over counting calories and then when I eat a "forbidden" food, go all crazy, throw my hands up in the air and say, "Oh! I've blown it! It's all over! I screwed up my diet! There's nothing I can do now, might as well go hog wild and eat it all." I actually seem to know a little better and realize that sometimes a person needs to indulge a little. Us food-obsessed-folks (like my mom and even myself) need to remember that it's just one incident and move on … I think this helps avoid those psychotic-over-eating scenarios. I mean, who wants to feel guilty over food (which is really so pleasurable)? I say, "Screw guilt! Acknowledge it, get over it, try to learn from it, and move on. Just don't bring it to my door." (Okay, sorry for that rant. I'm over it, now.)

Anyway, my response seemed to work because she didn't say anything else along that vein and I enjoyed the rest of my cookies and Smallville reruns until 8:30 PM when I headed to bed. I woke up at 4:00 AM with only a "residual" headache which was squelched by Excederin Migrane, 16 fl. oz. of water, and a NuGo Protein bar. Hooray, I'm functional. Spinning was a welcome start to my day.

I even got a chance to chat with some of the other spinners/cyclists after class and enjoyed a really HOT shower (Mmmmmmm…) After that, I drove to the airport to see my sister, Sam, off to Minnesota. Sadly, I'm a dolt and missed her boarding because I thought her plane was to leave at 7:15 AM and not 7:50 AM, although that didn't make sense either, because then I would've been super late. (I'm not much for thinking before 9:00 AM.) Ehhhhh … I hope she saw me out in the rain by the runway while her plane was taxiing around for takeoff. That's the best I can hope for. It's a good thing she's coming back in 6-8 weeks for a visit; right before I had back to Virginia (for good).