catherine's running efforts

I went to my first Zumba class. Just for the last 30 minutes. It was fun, but I'm not sure yet how it's different from a dance aerobics class. I was afraid I'd be the most awkward person in the class, but I wasn't. 

Then 3 miles on the treadmill in the cardio cinema to Return to Me. Not the best treadmill movie, but whatever. 

Remember my friend who's trying to lose a lot of weight who goes to the gym every day and who inspires me to run every day? We're myfitnesspal.com friends and I noticed that she burns more calories walking for a half hour than I do running for a half hour. That doesn't seem fair. But it also doesn't seem fair if walking for her is the same effort as running is for me.

Maybe I ran too soon after eating dinner. Or after eating about a hundred candy corns. But I had a side ache the whole run and felt pretty sick for the last mile. Fortunately (?) I didn't puke. 

I didn't know if I'd feel like doing 3 miles today - I was up pretty late working on stuff, and then this morning our carbon monoxide detector went off while we were still sleeping (false alarm), so I got about 4 hours of sleep. But I wasn't too tired and Clueless was on. 

I'm pretty sure we saw Sasha today on I-15 in Utah County. I waved but he didn't see me.

Long day at work. The gym was almost closed when I got home, and I didn't want to drive to another gym like I did last Friday. And I'm afraid of running in the dark. So...there it is. 

At the 800 N gym in Orem. Take the Lead was playing in the cardio cinema. I had never heard of it, but it kept me interested for all 6 miles. I even wanted to stay longer to see how it ended, but Eric and Elliott were waiting for me at Eric's sister's house. I did ballroom dance while I was at BYU and sometimes I miss it. Eric says he'll go with me but we haven't made it happen yet. 

And...this week was my highest mileage week of 2011.