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!!!!

Triathlon Tuesday

Today was a good day. Clinic was good - I spent most of the day watching a knee replacement surgery, which was just crazy. It was so much more violent of a procedure than I expected...it just never registered that, in order to put hardware in your body, there's gotta be some bone crunching. Yikes yikes yikes. I definitely have a new appreciation for what my patients go through to get to the point that I'd be seeing them. Yikes.

So today started early, with a 30 minute run:

I've been running for distance for a while, and every couple of miles I find myself bored into stopping. This morning I decided to just go for time and told myself half an hour was all I needed to do, but I needed to do it. I brought a book (Warm Bodies, in case you're curious) and read while I ran, which helped a LOT.

I did it.

I know after seeing all these races this seems like no big deal, but if you look at the Nike+ logs, you'll see that there's usually at least one dip in there. Translation: I haven't actually run a full 5k. Every one of them has had at least a short break, somewhere in the middle. So for the race this weekend, my goal is to knock that off - I want to run the full 5k without stopping because, in the end, I can. I just get bored.

So that was this morning.

Tonight, I caught the 6:30 spin class. It was meh. Not my style I guess. But I got it done, so that's that.

After spin, I hit the pool for a while and put in half a mile (which Log n Blog counted as a full mile, so I'll be back in the pool later this week to make up the difference). I was a little bit kicking myself for quitting at half a mile, but then I went to get out of the pool and ate it and knew that was the right choice. My poor knee has some minor road rash now, courtesy of the pool deck.

Ah well.

I think today's going to be the start of a tradition though - Triathlon Tuesdays. I'm going to aim to run in the morning, then bike and swim in the evenings. We'll see how long that keeps going once classes start up again next week.

On that note, I'll leave you with the music video for the song that got me through the last few laps:




 Possibly one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. "Ladies, you just lay there while we look rich on a boat with sweet dance moves. Yeah, just like that."

Double or Nothing: Frost Giant 5k/10k Race Recap

It's a Sunday, so I must be running.

Today's training schedule had me running 9 miles. A couple months ago I found the Frost Giant 5k/10k race, which conveniently had an option to run BOTH races for a measly $33.

Umm...yes please.

SO I signed up and hoped for the best. The race took place up in Estes Park, CO.

As you can tell, this is just the armpit of Colorado. So ugly, right?

But seriously, today could not have been a better day to race. 45 degrees and sunny the whole time. Perfection. I'm not sure how well I'm going to be able to handle summer races at this rate...my poor thermostat is calibrated for "winter" running by now!

The 5k started at 11 AM (god bless them for not making it earlier...I slept until 8 and still had time to take my time getting up there) and looked like this:


 It's hillier than it looks on a map. Also, it's at 7500 feet, which is NOT sealevel. It was basically a giant hill out, then down it back. There were cow pies and dirt to be had, and it was probably 2/3 trail run, but it was fun. Slower than my usual (my official time was 28:34 I think), but that's to be expected.

After the 5k, I had about half an hour to kill, so I sat in my car to keep warm. 45 isn't that cold, unless you're already soaking wet. Then it starts to be an issue.

The 10k looked something like this:

A lot more cow patties on this one. Also, a lot more hills. The first mile or so was pretty much all up hill...and it started snowing. Granted, it looked more like someone had thrown glitter over us than actual snow, but still. Principle remains.

Once again, my time was pretty lacking and my pace was abysmal. But my official time was 1:06:10, so at the very least I beat my time from the 6th grade Battle Road Run fiasco (I don't want to talk about it).

But here's the best part...

I ACTUALLY PLACED!!

Now, granted, they were giving prizes to the top 5 in each age group. And the 5k had roughly 150 runners, while the 10k had only about 80. And the age group was 26-32 so I wasn't competing against all those kids fresh out of college (or still in it). But still! I placed!!!!

The ribbons are totally the same ones you used to get for placing during Field Day in elementary school. Love it. I've never been so proud of a piece of cheap fabric in my life.

It was a good day.

Triple Threat Kind of Day

Today was rough.

Not like "oh no, I forgot about that 20 page paper due tomorrow" kind of rough. Nope, more like "so that guy I saw one time nearly 2 weeks ago is back in the hospital and now he's much worse, but seriously why do I care this much?" kind of rough.

Long story short, the first patient I got to sort of "take the lead" on, who we discharged 10 days ago, is back and is much much worse. And it hit me a lot harder than I thought it would. I'm sure this will get easier, but for today all I keep thinking is "practicals did not prepare me for this".

SO in order to cope, I hit the gym. Hard.

This morning, I biked 15 miles before the sun even came up. After work, I put in 2 miles on the treadmill (the yahoos at the front desk couldn't figure out how to put NBC on the TVs...ugh), then went and swam a mile.

Had to walk for a bit because my right leg went numb. That's generally not a thing to ignore. It worked itself out though, and I kept plugging.

I've discovered that I'm actually ok with running on a treadmill if I have a book to read. I can make the text super big on my tablet, so I can read while I'm running.

So on that note, any suggestions?