Ugh Ms. Manners needs to visit the gym!

Today was a pretty speedy day and it was jam packed...my alarm went off at 5:15 this morning and I hit snooze till about 5:45! I had planned to go to bed at midnight but I lay in bed for hours reading b/c I couldn't fall asleep. Well I got some reading done this morning (my two favorite morning activities are either studying or working out...both require a lot of energy and I have a lot when I wake up) and was off to class by 7:30. Well I got out at 9:30 and I was pooped...the lack of sleep was definitely showing so I just came home and CRASHED for an hour before my 11 am class. Fast forward through classes, meetings, work and its 6pm and I decided to hit the gym early today. Usually on Mondays I go to a cardio kickboxing class that is AWESOME at around 8 so I usually hit the gym at 7, do a little cardio, lift some weights before the class.

Well going to the gym early was a bad idea.
There were SO MANY people there...did EVERYONE within a 100 mile radius decide to start working out today...seriously, the people to cardio machine ratio was like 10:1. Anyway, so at a time like this when people are literally circling the gym for ellipticals and treadmills, common courtesy advises that you limit your workouts to 30 mins...heck, I don't even care if you do 60 minutes and if you do 90 minutes, well Hallelujah! You are doing what I can't do everyday. What AGGRAVATES me is when you do finish your run and you stand on your treadmill to stretch for FIFTEEN minutes! I mean, clearly there are mats all over the gym for you to do that and if you need the treadmill type bars, we have that too! Heck we have a whole "system" (I have no idea what the technical name is for it!) for stretching. Okay, even this I was ready to forgive...maybe she did a REALLY hard run today...its okay, cut her some slack. What aggravates me to no friggin end is when you finish your damn stretching and you are watching a show on the tv in front of your treadmill (we have those personal TV's per treadmill/elliptical type setup) and you put in a 1.0 mph pace on the treadmill just so you can continue watching the show. So there you are virtually standing still, watching your TV show for 25 minutes. This now totals your use of the treadmill for purposes other than walking or running to FORTY MINUTES...that makes for ONE really great workout or two short workout session...I mean REALLY!
I was about to get off my elliptical and tell her to get her ass off the treadmill so the other 4 people that were eyeing it could use it but luckily I got a treadmill that was open just as I was heading over there...she was saved from my angry ranting...I was going to politely inform her that there were THREE perfectly comfortable couches and lounges in our 4 floored gym that could accommodate her TV watching to her heart's content (though it was so ridiculous that it was a little funny at the time)
I did 3 sets of 3 min runs with 3 minutes walks in between. Its a little more than Week 3 of C25k but little less than week 4 b/c I wasn't up for starting that today.
I followed that up with a butts and guts class for 30 minutes that KILLED ME...I hobbled all the way out of that class and to my car and theres a dull aching building up in my lower body right now which promises to turn into full blown hellish pain tomorrow.

Well anyway, I have an International Finance Exam to study for and a 7 am staff meeting tomorrow morning! See ya then :)