Working out is therapeutic. Guess I’ve always know that, but it really sunk in this week.
The week started on a great note; Crystal and I attended a party at a club in Downtown Brooklyn. Since I don’t get out much I get really happy when I do and didn’t want to leave. Thing is, we had a workout session scheduled with Ray for 6:00 AM at Pedal. At 4:30AM I was still enjoying the music and the party atmosphere so we didn’t leave until 5:00. Of course we needed to get into something more appropriate than our club clothes, so we headed to a friend’s house to do the Wonder Woman quick change (by now it’s about 5:45), and I’m so sleepy I want to just say forget it. I curl up on her couch and this time Crystal was the one to say “let’s go”. Into the car, mad dash across the city, we’re late, Ray’s mad and he makes us pay for our transgressions (including the alcohol we had at the club) but ends by telling us how well we did. Back to Brooklyn to drop off Crystal, then back to Westchester for me –Crystal calls me and says “we’re crazy…I love it”. I tell her I do too!
Tuesday morning I get a call to inform me that my uncle, the patriarch of my family passed away. I’m on my way to Pedal when I get the call and think about turning around and going home; even more so, I think that I’d feel much better if I had a cigarette…but I’d stopped carrying them around and had none. I thought about buying some, I text Ray, and in the end I just continue to Pedal and do my work out which was extremely intense, as they’ve been since Ray turned it up for the New Year. It was just what I needed and I kind of let the tears go as I strived to do all the exercises. By the time it was over I was composed and the knot in my throat was a good deal smaller. I ended up back at the gym that day, and then ran an organized 3.1 mile in Prospect Park that evening in 16 degree weather. It felt wonderful! The exhilaration of the run, the accomplishment of completing it without stopping, all took my mind off my uncle’s death and all the changes that would come with it. I figure if I must have a crutch, what better than fitness!
I did the same 3.1 (well actually I did 3.4 this time according to Nike +) on Thursday and I’m seriously contemplating the NYRR Joe Kleinerman 10K tomorrow (right before Bootcamp with Ray). I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying running. This will be my addition to our hardcore finish. Without Ray, Lisa and the Mamas I would never have even entertained the thought of any of this, let alone been able to do it.
Oh and of course, the results of all this running, working out and deprivation as Lisa calls it? I’m starting to really like what I see in the mirror for the first time in a long time. I’m trying on every skimpy thing I own (lots of carnival costumes) and dancing in the mirror (don’t judge me). Instead of just focusing on how pretty my costume is going to be, I’m thinking how pretty I will be in the costume J Hardcore for 2012!
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