Just to make sure, I got in all my workouts this week, I did two back to back. 
(oh sorry, that was my right hamstring yelling for dear life…)
Task today:
Alternate 1 min sprints with 1 min jogs. The program doesn’t actually give a specified time, so I made up my own.
4min walk (@4mph) then 20 mins of alternates. Walk 1 minute (@4mph) Jog 3 mins (@6mph). Please excuse the ADD run. My body was still a little sore and I hadn’t eaten enough to fuel myself well. So I worked with what my body could handle. I’m getting so smart, aren’t I?!
I made a date at my friend’s gym because I just needed a change of scenery. At this point, I’m like my daughter that used to pee in her diapers, remove them from her little bottom, and bring them to me when she was done. She was telling me she was good and ready for the potty. And my body is telling me it is good and ready for going outdoors. But today I braved a 45 minute commute in the freezing cold so I could work out in the non-comforts of another gym.
This one however was state of the art, with tv’s and iPod connects, and machines that for the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to start. It made my gym look like…well, not a gym. As a matter of fact, I’ve decided my gym can no longer carry the title of a gym. I’m now calling it a G. Until they get better machines and raise the temp above 55, it doesn’t deserve the other two letters. Anyway, I digress. The point I am making is this gym was like a megamall compared to my little G. I thought to myself, if I get bored running in here…then I need to do us all a favor, and just GO OUTSIDE ALREADY!
Well, I wasn’t bored, but I was one thing that I NEVER expected to be…HOT AS HADES!!!
I guess my body has gotten so used to the 50 degree temperature in my G that I couldn’t figure out how to breathe in the warm and probably much healthier atmosphere. DAMN, it was HOT! In that 30 mins, I sweat more than the first time I taught a Hip Hop cardio class and tried to work my students until they were sore, and only ended up making myself sore from slipping in a puddle of sweat I’d formed under myself.
Today, I was drenched after 5 minutes…No joke! And very glad I brought extra underwear because I could literally wring the sweat out of my drawers at the end of my run. Sorry, that might have been too much of a visual. I wasn’t particularly bored but I do know going there wasn’t worth it at all. $5.50 metro fees and 1.5 hours commuting back and forth just to watch Spongebob for 5 minutes while my face literally melted to the floor. The gym is great, for anyone looking for a nice facility. Definitely check it out, but don’t expect to be comfortable running…
Tomorrow, I am taking a day off of training and will do my last required run of the week on Friday am. However, in anticipation of next weeks race, I am going to do a recovery run on Saturday OUTDOORS. I figure my body needs to go through the treadmill to concrete transition either way. Might as well do it before the race. I’ll let you guys know how it goes!
laters,
an anonymous black girl who despises running, and hot a$$ gyms
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