Oh Hai.

I guess I never wrote about my first half, huh?

The gist of it:

I finished. I did better than I'd hoped, but it felt AWFUL. I wasn't the only one that felt awful though, so I didn't feel too badly.

At the end of the race, my brother ran backwards in front of me for a bit to get a couple of awesome pictures:

Yay!

Not yay! 

My time was 2:06:38, which I'm happy with. Considering I had to walk most of mile 8 because of bonk, that's not awful. IN case you feel like joining me, here's what's coming up:
 

 Don't judge - I know that's a lot of races. I'm addicted. I know. Oh well.

Spin has been going well too. Next week's class is going to be epic I think. Like, superhero epic. Mentally challenging, physically brutal (if you're doing it right), but rewarding. Should be awesome.

Midterms Playlist

Not great at posting interesting stuff, sorry about that. Here's tonight's playlist anyway:


Proud Heather Small
Paint It Black Vanessa Carlton
S&M (Come On) Rihanna
What The Hell Avril Lavigne
Planetary (GO!) My Chemical Romance
Panic Switch Silversun Pickups
Thriller/Heads Will Roll Glee Cast
Like OMG, Baby DJ Earworm
Till The World Ends Britney Spears
Into The Night (Featuring Chad Kroeger) Santana
Black Betty Ram Jam
This Is How A Heart Breaks Rob Thomas
Bass Creator Basshunter
Devour Shinedown
White Rabbit Emiliana Torrini

Another Tuesday, Another Playlist

Looks like I forgot to post last week's playlist.


30-min Electro Swing Mix (1) 29:12
Paramore - Crush Crush Crush (DjTaly 4:38
Highway Unicorn (Road To Love) Lady Gaga 4:16
Fall (Remixed By M83 VS Big Black Delta) Daft Punk 3:55
Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) Big & Rich 3:22
P!nk - Try (Cosmic Dawn Radio Edit) 4:18
Follow Me Follow Me (Fast 5 Hybrid Remix) Tejo Black Alien and Speed 3:08
Nicki Minaj Pound the Alarm Remix [R 4:43
Haddaway - What Is Love 2013 (Andrew 6:04
Zombie (Techno Remix) 5:22
Barbara Streisand (Original Mix) Duck Sauce 5:00
Linkin Park - In The End (DJ Yoj Rem 4:30
Celine Dion - I Drive All Night 5:19
Imprint DoubleDrive 4:00

That first song was just the "welcome to class, find a bike" song, obviously. The ride was a modified version of the Road Trip spin. Same basic ride, just a couple of extra hills thrown in for good measure.


This week's playlist is this:


Spaceman The Killers 4:47
The Longest Day of My Life Armin Van Buuren 10:23
Nicki Minaj Pound the Alarm Remix [R 4:43
Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch- Sw 3:28
Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worr 3:24
059 - Ke$ha - Take It Off DJ Willis (williswho.com) 3:35
I Want You To Want Me (Live) Cheap Trick 3:38
Some Nights Fun. 4:37
Set Fire to the Rain (House Remix) Capt Kirk 3:26
Danger Zone (Album Version) Kenny Loggins 3:38
Bulletproof La Roux 3:26
Titanium David Guetta Feat Sia 4:05
Eminem - Lose Yourself Eminem 5:26
Stubborn Love by The Lumineers (Lyri 4:33

It's going to be a "ride to the music" kind of week. Honestly, I haven't even listened to that playlist anyway, so it will likely change up a bit before class anyway.

That's about it. We're hitting midterms, so it's been and will continue to be a bumpy week.

Oh, and I ran my first half marathon on Sunday. So there's that.

Maybe soon there will be a race recap, since that was kind of a big deal race for me. 2:06:38, which isn't too shabby considering it was my first and I was just hoping to finish in one piece.

Anyway.

Sneak Peek Playlist

Here's the line up (more or less) for tomorrow:


Plowed - Sponge
Right Now - SR-71
The Art Of Losing - American Hi-Fi
Cowboy Casanova - Carrie Underwood
Ke$ha - Die Young (Lyric Video)
Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat
Usher - Scream (Audio)
Seven Nation Army (The Glitch Mob Remix) - The White Stripes
Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child
I Put A Spell On You - Marilyn Manson
Killin' It - Krewella
Remix (I Like The) - NKOTB
If I Had You - Adam Lambert
Thriller/Heads Will Roll - Glee Cast
Everybody & Ray Speak No Americano (Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP vs. Backstreet Boys vs. Ray Charles vs. Phantom of the Opera vs. Benny Benassi) Mashup-Germany vs. Faroff
Feel Again - OneRepublic
Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand - Primitive Radio Gods
Walk - Foo Fighters

This whole 60 minutes instead of 45 thing is throwing me way off...I'm so used to having effectively 35 minutes of hard work to come up with - those extra 15 really make a difference. Blerg. There are a couple of songs I'm not totally sold on (Scream, for example - great beat but man it's a filthy song), but I think this will work. I really need to get a better vibe of who's going to be in the class and this will get easier I think. 

This one is my favorite though: 

 I feel like I should have some more BSB and N'Sync or something in there, but this isn't actually a 90's song. Go figure.

Anyway. That's the plan. For now. Hope to see you there!

First Spin, Or: The Princess is Back in the Castle

Sneak peek: Tuesday's class is going to be a profile repeat of this gem.

The obstacles will be 5 minutes each (55 minutes of work), and the playlist will be different from whatever it was last time (I don't even remember).

Tuesday Nights

Woah, hey, what's that to the right over there? Is that a calendar??

Yeah buddy, finally...I have a class! I just barely even filled out W4 stuff and I already have an official class (and got offered a second one that's unfortunately during lab meeting time...sad day). Tuesday nights at 6:30 PM, I'll be at AWC kickin' yer butt!

I really should be reading Neuro right now, so that's all I've got.

But this coming Tuesday should be my first class - come make me feel good and fill up the bikes! (Also, request music!)

Back In!

Remember how once upon a time I was this epicly inspiring (ha!) Group fitness instructor? Then I moved to CO to pursue a new awesome career and failed to find a group ex position for like 6 months? Well guess what! I just got an offer to instruct at the wellness center/gym on campus. Happy dance central over here. Cannot wait!!!!