The Spins: Black Eyed Peas to the Rescue

Gooood Saturday morning!

Today I was up at 6:45 to get to my early spin class. I actually woke up before my alarm went off and thought I had overslept because — OMG — the sun was already up! Spring is getting closer!!

I got to class and had a total nightmare come true: I had forgotten my ipod. I have no idea how, since it was sitting with the speakers, my phone, and my wallet. But I was prepared for a situation like this happening at some point; I had a backup CD in my car with an older playlist on it. Except the backup CD wouldn’t play, probably because it was too cold. Um…instructor fail??

Luckily, there was a copy of the Black Eyed Peas new album in the CD player. I told the ladies I was going to have to improvise. I only know about half the songs on this new album, but hey…BEP always has good beats, right?

Even though I had to wait a few seconds at the beginning of each song to get a sense of the beat, we ended up having a great class! It was like working out with the ipod on shuffle. I had no idea what was coming next, so I had to try not to kill them, because I didn’t know if the next song would be faster or harder. But it ended up being a good class — and we ended with a great seated sprint to “Electric City.” If you’ve never left yourself to the mercy of will.i.am and Fergie…I highly recommend it!

After class, I came home and lay in bed for a half hour and then showered. I’ve started doing the whole break up your breakfast thing on these early morning class days, because eating so early and then torching a ton of calories means I’m hangry mid-morning. Today I had a smoothie and cinnamon raisin English muffin with PB…and I just made breakfast round two: a fried egg with toast and a few strawbs!

I really, really love that doing this allows me to eat more of my favorite foods in one day!

I have a pretty good day planned. I have to work on some Web stuff for a few hours, but other than that, I am going to sit down with the stack of new cookbooks I got at the library yesterday. I love going to the library and walking out with four hardcovers and thinking, “OMG, I can’t believe I just bought FOUR new books…ughhh buyer’s remorse…” and then realizing, “NOPE!!!!!!”

I also have some de-clutter plans on the agenda, to keep with my goal. And I’m going to make my contribution to this week’s Outside the Box challenge! Even though I can’t win the prizes, I still need the rut busting as much as the next girl. If you haven’t submitted yet, you have until tomorrow night, so I highly suggest you get to it. The entries so far are so cool!

Have a great Saturday!

Tagged as: healthy food, music, Outside the Box Challenge, spinning