My Calves are Mooing

I was convinced by a co-worker yesterday to go to the gym with her and take a "Boot Camp" class at lunchtime.  It was awesome, if not an enormously high intensity-driven class.  Oy!  But I had a lot of fun, and they apparently have Boot Camp-only packages, but the girl at the front desk quoted me $199 for ten.




Um, no. I had a blast, though.


 My colleague said she believed I was quoted an incorrect price, and that the next time we were there and the owner was free, she would talk to him and see if I could get a better deal.  The girl at the front desk suggested I spend $99 a month to have access to the gym and unlimited Boot Camp classes, but that was also a resounding "no".  I don't need to belong to three gyms, and if it is $199, that's more expensive than CrossFit packages.  I also already have a membership at Bally Total Fitness, which is about $17 a month.


 Besides -- I don't want unlimited Boot Camp classes, just something to do once a week or so in addition to CrossFit, yoga and my regular gym.  I can't imagine doing that Boot Camp all the time, anyway.


I do want to take a couple more CrossFit classes a week, but the issue for me was that they're usually from 6:00pm-7:00pm.  Sorta late, which also means I'd have to hang around the office for 45 minutes after we close at 5.  No, thanks.  They have early morning classes, which I wouldn't mind factoring in -- the only issue was the showering. 

We have a shower room at work for women, but it got turned into a storage room. It still is, and there's books in there, but in thick, cardboard boxes. I just asked the office manager if I could go ahead and use the shower, even though, several years ago, we women all signed a sheet saying we wouldn't use it. She said it should be fine. So I just cleaned it up. Mostly just dust, but whomever it was who used it last (there was a female employee who used it fairly often before it got renovated into the storage facility) never cleaned out the drain, so It was all thick with her long hair.

Barf.

/shudder 

When my hair was long, I didn't even like pulling out my own hair from the drain. Gave me heebie jeebies on par with cockroaches. I used about three paper towels layered together to clean the one here.

I do love a long, hot shower (don't we all?), but I can reserve those for home, and just use the one here once or twice a week so that I'm not sitting at my desk feeling slimy all day. Yeah, I could drive up to the Bally gym that's up the road, but it's not the most convenient solution. And I can just use some old rubber flip flops for shower shoes while in there as well.

So that's solved.  It just means I have to bring breakfast with me.  The class is from 5:45am-6:45, which means I'll be able to get everything done in time to start work at 8:00 am.

I really hope I can get a better deal on the Boot Camp classes; I'd do 20 for $199, but not 10.  That's way too much, considering CrossFit is $128.50 for 10.  We'll see!  I can say that while I was challenged by "The Murph" on Monday, the Boot Camp class thoroughly spanked me.  Awesome.

Moo.  Ow. Mooooo.

So speaketh my calves.  I just hope they don't have a cow, man.