chapter fifteen: dirty double

so today is officially half way through the challenge and i don't know exactly what i want to feel. ok, that's a big lie. i don't want this to end, truthfully. of course it's hard, i mean, i definitely have found muscles that i didn't know existed, which are now hurting. but, if i had known that this would turn into a love affair, i would have (a) lodged a formal complaint with internal affairs that this challenge is not long enough, and (b) it would have given me more time to find the perfect sized butt pads. the bike and i are still rolling mad deep.

i felt like i'd kick off the second half of the challenge with another dirty double. started off the evening with a lovely release plus class. er bear was being her fabulous self, and big al wanted to ensure that because our playlist was catering to the cardio part of the workout, and that we weren't jammin' while releasing on the kinesis. he of course gave us a fantastic demo, that which will go down in the hall of fame. bridges, and spine twists and stabilized scapulas, oh my! i also got a charlie horse in my butt, that was interesting.

just as soon as we started, we finished again. on to the next class, strive! my muscles were nice and warm, (and were wondering what they did to make me punish them so) i was ready to go. round two. we partnered up (as it was bring your friend to strive class day) and got underway with the ever famous class. fun bobby and sparky were the big men on campus for this one. they're quite the dynamic duo, let me tell you. apart from nearly hip checking fun bobbers into the ladies change-room, things were off to a great start.

core stability, core stability, core stability. my name is gems and i'm 5'-8''. i'm also a core stabilizing expert, says sparky. we do 3 sets of bosu exercises between our kinesis sets. high knees running (which on a deflated bosu had a slight resemblance of a poorly edited kung fu movie) bosu burpies and mountain climbers. we did the same bosu exercises between sets, and every time it got harder and harder. thank goodness for the great explanation "pretend like you're picking 'something' off the floor" during round three of kinesis, or things wouldn't have been so clear. finished up with another one of fun bobby's fab-ab's. and a big partner stretch. ahhhh so good.

i leave class now so pumped up that i walk through the alley to the skytrain, almost hoping to get jumped. i knew i can kick some serious butt and have dreams of heading to the sketchy side of downtown just to throw down my mad skillz.