Last night, marked a yoga milestone.
I was able to bend forward and touch the floor. Not palms flat on the mat, more like fingertips with pressure. Miniscule achievement, yes, but I'll take it.
Wore the heart rate monitor to spin today. Quite the challenge. I was out of my zone even before I started warming up. I would adjust the tension, slow my cadence, it would come down a bit, but still out of the 55 to 70 % range it should have been in.
It wouldn't stop beeping. I resisted the urge to rip off the watch and toss it out the doorway into the outer room. I was getting nervous that it was going to flat line.
I spent a total of 6 minutes "in the zone," only about 13 percent of the time.
I think today was the slowest I have ever peddled a bike. And I don't think I have ever taken so many deep cleansing breaths to lower the heart rate. It was almost like yoga in on wheels.
Though I wasn't going very fast, all that concentrating and adjusting did cause me to break out into a nice sheen of sweat, as opposed to the deluge of moisture that usually accompanies my Thursday morning spins.
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