The Imperial Spin Class
Spin class – 1 hour
Injuries though. They’re great aren’t they? Well, no actually. They’re rather tedious after a while. Hobbling around London at 1/8 speed is very annoying.
Today’s injury (for my collection is so plentiful now, that I have one for each day of the week) is my foot. No idea what I’ve done, but it clearly didn’t take well to Sunday’s 16 miler and I have a satisfying bruise developing along the outside. I have iced it this evening and expect to be back on track in a day or two.
It meant, however, that I couldn’t go running this evening. To make up for this, I went to the new and improved Serpie Spin Class, relocated to Imperial College in South Ken (goodbye sweaty Fitness First in Covent Garden – we wont miss you, or your minging, sweaty, purple-mirrored spin room). The Imperial College gym is brand new, has excellent equipment, and is light, bright and spacious.
There is also a new instructor taking the class after the regular guy moved to Paris. Our new leader is called Dan and appears to be from the ‘hardcore’ school of spinning. Tonight’s class kicked my butt all the way back to the beginners’ line, but it was well thought out, professionally run and the music was funky.
We did the usual mix of stuff – hill climbs, sprints, standing up on the pedals and leaning forward (agony) – just harder, faster and longer than ever before. We also learned the art of ‘hovering’ – which is where you sink down between the saddle and the handlebars, keep your torso steady and hold all of your weight on your quads as you pedal. It was torturous and I could barely manage the 15 second repeats!
I found this session really hard. It isn’t my fitness (which is good). It may be my technique (which is bad). Or it could just be that it was that hardest class I’ve been to yet - which is good, because I need to be challenged at this point in my training.
I am going to ache tomorrow.
Injuries though. They’re great aren’t they? Well, no actually. They’re rather tedious after a while. Hobbling around London at 1/8 speed is very annoying.
Today’s injury (for my collection is so plentiful now, that I have one for each day of the week) is my foot. No idea what I’ve done, but it clearly didn’t take well to Sunday’s 16 miler and I have a satisfying bruise developing along the outside. I have iced it this evening and expect to be back on track in a day or two.
It meant, however, that I couldn’t go running this evening. To make up for this, I went to the new and improved Serpie Spin Class, relocated to Imperial College in South Ken (goodbye sweaty Fitness First in Covent Garden – we wont miss you, or your minging, sweaty, purple-mirrored spin room). The Imperial College gym is brand new, has excellent equipment, and is light, bright and spacious.
There is also a new instructor taking the class after the regular guy moved to Paris. Our new leader is called Dan and appears to be from the ‘hardcore’ school of spinning. Tonight’s class kicked my butt all the way back to the beginners’ line, but it was well thought out, professionally run and the music was funky.
We did the usual mix of stuff – hill climbs, sprints, standing up on the pedals and leaning forward (agony) – just harder, faster and longer than ever before. We also learned the art of ‘hovering’ – which is where you sink down between the saddle and the handlebars, keep your torso steady and hold all of your weight on your quads as you pedal. It was torturous and I could barely manage the 15 second repeats!
I found this session really hard. It isn’t my fitness (which is good). It may be my technique (which is bad). Or it could just be that it was that hardest class I’ve been to yet - which is good, because I need to be challenged at this point in my training.
I am going to ache tomorrow.
posted by Jonathan @ 11:52 PM
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