One down, Eight to go

An update on my gym 9 times before the end of the month saga ...

On Sunday afternoon, around 1:30 pm, my Hunny hauled my tired and lazy arse into gym for the first time in around 5 months. I had agreed to go with my Hunny on Saturday morning, however after on goods nights sleep, and an 8:30 AM lie in, I was no longer inclined.

So on Sunday when Hunny had a craving for cardio I bit the bullet and joined him. On the way to gym I found that I did remember the combination to my padlock after all! Great stuff, cause it's a nifty turning mechanism, not one of those boring press button ones.

We started with the treadmills. It was pretty even at first, but then Hunny cranked his incline up to about 8. I was still on level ground at this stage. I countered by raising my incline to 2 and moving from a walk to a slow jog. Hunny dropped his incline a tad, and took off at a blistering sprint. I admitted defeat and resumed my fast walk. They announced over the speaker system that the gym would close at 2 PM. I breathed a big sigh of relief that I would not have to endure any other torture machines - Hunny had an abdominal workout planned. Final stats: I burnt around 100 calories, Hunny burnt around 350. He tells me that's the equivalent of 10 Romany creams. I traded my 3 Romany creams for a late afternoon pizza.

In my defense I had already endured quite a tiring morning before the gym saga. Dartmoor (my horse) and I had our first show-jumping competition of the year on Sunday morning. The competition was pretty tiring, but more tiring than that was trying to keep my breakfast down after the show nerves set it. Final stats: 13th place (out of around 60 horses) in our first class. Dartmoor knocked himself pretty hard in the practice arena while warming up for the second class, so we pulled out of that one. It's doesn't sound to impressive, but that's not a bad start for us, we're a bit slow to get back into competition. Also, my instructor was there to watch us, and she said we look about ready for the next grade. Whoohoo!