Goal #1
Like Riding a Bike
Many read my article “Goals-My Impossible Bucket List,” published here in Medium in January of 2022.
My goals were the following, in no specific order:
Foster a child Write a book Complete another spin class
Today I accomplished the first of these- complete another spin class.
Last month, I joined my local YMCA primarily to discount the children’s activities for my kids’ sports sessions and summer camps. The Y kept sending me emails about their exercise options. Hence, I reluctantly signed myself up for Friday morning Spin class. I told myself I would go slow and stop if I needed to. I got there early and grabbed a spot in the back, knowing how out of shape I was.
Spin used to be my favorite form of group exercise until I had an arm injury in May of 2020. If it was too much pressure on my arm, I would excuse myself and go home and find some Oreos to soothe my bruised ego.
I didn’t have to stop. I certainly didn’t keep up with the rest of the class. It was my first real workout in two years, other than walking and scrubbing my bathtubs/showers (which is definitely a workout if you’re doing it right).
The class was challenging, the music was too slow, but it was so good. I only felt like I was genuinely going to throw up about three times. You know that feeling you sometimes get in the back of your throat when you’re working out so hard that you can’t even swallow any water? That was constant. Is that normal? No idea.
I didn’t care about the number of calories I burned or my RPM, or really anything else the instructor was telling us. I just wanted to do it. And I did.
It may not seem like a significant accomplishment to some, but to me, it was. I believed I could, and so I did.
Now on to the next….
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us…” -Marianne Williamson
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