Spinning around and around...

As I planned, I tried spinning for the first time this week. I thought I'd take some time to talk about that experience.

Have you read about people who try spinning for the first time and say, "It was amazing! I'm so pumped!"?

I wasn't one of those people.

If you're not familiar with spinning, it's a high intensity hour of riding on bikes that allow you to increase the tension, making the pedaling harder or easier. At the direction of the instructor, you'll stand up, sit down, do that in bursts of energy, or gradual increases like a hill. And lots of standing up and pedaling when it's really hard.


The hour had pluses and minuses.

Minus:
I didn't really "Stand Up".

Plus:
I didn't throw up. And I didn't give up.

Minus:
The saddle hurts.

Plus:
I had been wearing bike shorts, so it didn't hurt as much as it could.

Minus:
My husband set up my bike with all the settings for me to use it. I wasn't sure he was right.

Plus:
The instructor made all the right changes to the bike for me. :-)

Minus:
An hour was way too long for me to not imagine bailing.

Plus:
They have 45 minutes classes on different days.

Minus:
The class was filled with a lot of hard core people that were kind of intimidating with how they were all able to do everything.

Plus:
The instructor (Laura) was really helpful and attentive to me, knowing I'd never done this before.

Minus:
It was really hard. I was sweating a ton. My foot slipped out of the pedal thingy twice. Maybe 3 times.

Plus:
I survived.

Will I go again? I think so. Maybe to the 45 minute class on Sunday. I figure I have to try it 3 times before I give up totally.

But it's not my new found passion-at-first-spin, and I don't know that I'll get there. And that's okay.

Thanks for reading!