First Bike Training: Take Two After failing to wake up in time for my coached bike training on Saturday morning, I decided to try it again with an afternoon ride over the George Washington Bridge with Allan. Failing to train as planned ignited a strange motivation to do the following: 11am: Acupuncture 12pm: Lunch and stop at the bike shop for water bottles and gels 1pm: Meet Allan at the West Side Highway to start our ride 3pm: Shower 4pm: Bar Method 9pm: Dinner 11pm: Dancing It was only while laying on the acupuncture table that I started to think that I may have bitten off more than I could chew. It was at 3:30pm when I was unable to carry my 17lb bike up 5 flights of stairs to my apartment that I was convinced that this was an ambitious plan. But not wanting to be the difficult client who cancels Bar Method at the last minute, I went. I walk into the Bar Method studios at 4:03pm. Tim, the owner tells me to go into studio A. Amy is teaching the class. Amy is one of the owners of Bar Method Soho and is also the hardest instructor as well. Her classes are hard without a pre-class bike ride. As I walk into the studio, Amy greets me and says: “Esther, today I’ll be teaching an advanced class. If you want to join the normal class, it’s in studio B.” Normally, I don’t bow down from a challenge but this time, I knew my limits and proceeded to walk out. Amy called out, in front of the entire class, and asked if I was sure. It was at this point that my pride got the best of me, and fearing the judgement of others in the class who may be thinking that I’m just a weak newbie, I stayed. Take that Week 1 of training! Bring it on Week 2!
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First Bike Training: Take Two

After failing to wake up in time for my coached bike training on Saturday morning, I decided to try it again with an afternoon ride over the George Washington Bridge with Allan. Failing to train as planned ignited a strange motivation to do the following:

11am: Acupuncture

12pm: Lunch and stop at the bike shop for water bottles and gels

1pm: Meet Allan at the West Side Highway to start our ride

3pm: Shower

4pm: Bar Method

9pm: Dinner

11pm: Dancing

It was only while laying on the acupuncture table that I started to think that I may have bitten off more than I could chew. It was at 3:30pm when I was unable to carry my 17lb bike up 5 flights of stairs to my apartment that I was convinced that this was an ambitious plan. But not wanting to be the difficult client who cancels Bar Method at the last minute, I went.

I walk into the Bar Method studios at 4:03pm. Tim, the owner tells me to go into studio A. Amy is teaching the class. Amy is one of the owners of Bar Method Soho and is also the hardest instructor as well. Her classes are hard without a pre-class bike ride. As I walk into the studio, Amy greets me and says: “Esther, today I’ll be teaching an advanced class. If you want to join the normal class, it’s in studio B.” Normally, I don’t bow down from a challenge but this time, I knew my limits and proceeded to walk out. Amy called out, in front of the entire class, and asked if I was sure. It was at this point that my pride got the best of me, and fearing the judgement of others in the class who may be thinking that I’m just a weak newbie, I stayed.

Take that Week 1 of training! Bring it on Week 2!