Spin class review

I took the spin class at 8:45a today at that downtown place that has many other location - the instructor was Suzanne (last names left of to protect the guilty. Before I start my review I must preface this with what I did before the class - ran about 5 miles with 4 x 800 at 10k pace (2:55 per 800) and 200 recovery (damn my coach) mixed in - then heading to the gym quickly to change and start pedaling. I started to pedal at 8:00a and was to only do 1 hour on the bike - but since class started at 8:45a I was in for the long haul - 1.5 hours on the bike after my fun run in the morning.

Any way - little miss sunshine (the instructor) shows up and apparently everyone in this class knows everyone else - maybe is was some sort of cult I stepped in to. (Side note - if I seem in a pissy mood it is because every day when I check the Phillies score they are losers - they have gone from 13 games over 500 to 5 games over in a couple weeks - can you say June Swoon - I digress). So there are all these pleasantries going on that I am not a part of and I just want to get this class started and get done. From the way the instructor made the announcement of "we will be doing what i want to do today" and "you nerds to do not have to go full bore all the time to get benefit" it sounded like she has had some issues lately with her "cult"

The class was intervals - ok, I can handle that and I needed some speed work on my bike since it has been since late last year since I have done any serious biking. And the cult was informed that the music selection was going to be a mix - that always scares me because you never know if your musical preference jives with the instructor.

As it turns out - the class was ok - and the music was mostly from the 70 and 80s - I did get every band right when she asked the class "who is this?". However, I have to tell you that I DID NOT LIKE her singing during class. She was way off key and by the end it was kind of annoying - you know the kind, it starts out ok and about 30 minutes you just want to bang the gong and get her off stage??? Here was another thing that turned me off - she started to spew all this meditation, bright outlook, we need to come together as a country, everyone needs to help each other, blah, blah, blah to the class. You can tell she is a yoga and meditation instructor.

I say hooey - if you can not make the Phillies win I do not want to hear form any of you.

So, back to the class, it was actually fun (minus her singing and attempts at motivating me) and I got a lot out of it. I will rate it 3 spin bikes and if she would have been a little more quite she might have moved in to the 4 bike range.

If you attend (which I will not again)say I to the cult - I got out before they could make me one of them :-)