Today I slept in a little, but went for a 30 minute walk when I got up.  Walked around Victoria Park in central Auckland, and I was astounded to see up to 30 people in the park drinking.  Homeless Alcoholics.  Wish I knew how to help them.

Did my gym workout in the afternoon.  Took about 50 minutes, managed to do all my reps, although I skipped the side obliques – as my abs were cramping up after rolling around on the squeeze ball!  Finished it off with a 5 minute bike cooldown.

Now, because I am insane, I signed up for a SPIN class, having no idea what it was or how long it went for.  It was this evening, so I arrived a little late and was seated up on a bike.  There were about 9 others including the trainer in the room as well.  OK the trainer said, lets get going…and off we went, slowly upping the resistance, then before I knew it, after sweating and cycling my butt off,  he said “great job folks!”.  Wow, I was stoked, it wasn’t even hard.  And I survived!  But wait, that was just the warm up before the real exercise began!  45 minutes later, I was literally dripping in sweat.  Possibly the biggest cardio workout I have had in the last couple of years!  Resistance was upped then downed as we ‘rode” up and down hills.  We had to stand up on the pedals and push for the uphill, and back down for the grinds and downhills.  It went on and on and on and on and on, I was sure I was going to fall off the bike!  I was still sweating 30 minutes after the workout!

I should mention I walk 10 minutes to the gym, and 10 minutes back, so with my two gym trips today, I also walked another 40 minutes.  Hope I am not overdoing it, but I can tell you, I now have a slight headache (no coffee for three days will do that) and my muscles hurt!  It is like being beaten up by a hurt bunny – they don’t seem painful until well afterward!

HURT BUNNY "I want to hurt you!"