Cycling Express

During undergrad I taught a lot of indoor cycling. Honestly, it's another one of those exercise things that I maintain a love/hate relationship with. I would so much rather be outside on my bike, traversing some awesome mountain (oh wait, I sold my mountain bike...darn...) or riding along the Shoreline trail (oh wait, I moved to Houston and there are no mountains...darn...). However, indoor cycling is not only more convenient but I must admit it's a better workout because you can keep that resistance cranked the whole time. It's safer, too, with the whole cars vs. bikes thing that happens sometimes while road biking (not to mention DOGS - both Bishop and I have been wiped out by a rogue dog while biking). Bishop won't let me ride my bike while pregnant, also, because I had a minor crash while pregnant with S (it was on my way to my OB appointment - everything was fine) so, seeing as baby B is only 4 months old, I haven't been biking here yet.

I digress. My biggest issue with indoor cycling is that they are an HOUR LONG. That is way too much time for me to devote to any one form of exercise unless of course it's a run, yoga, hiking a mountain, or an outside bike ride. Way too long for sitting on an indoor spin bike (though I do love the Kaiser bikes the YMCA got - the gym I worked at in L.A. had those and they are SO lovely). Typically I hash out 45 minutes then bail the last 15 to do a short, fast run and call it my 'transition run' for maintaining my triathlon training. Today, however, I did only 30 minutes because that was all the time I had before S&E's swimming lessons. And 30 minutes was AWESOME! Even better than 45! Maybe the Y wants to hire me to teach cycling express classes...but then again, maybe I'll just keep going to half of Julie's classes because I love her music (another benefit of indoor cycling: BLAST that music).