Correction re yesterday's post. LM did not launch RPM 51 - LM "released" RPM 51. That's one of the things I quite enjoy about RPM - the new language, other than good RPM exercise, it has introduced me to. I'll give the language and "key messages" a separate posting.
Today being Wednesday - although because my settings still need fiddling with, this may come up as Tuesday when posted was the session with "Hutt girl". I call her that in a Hutt way. Even though if we were the alphabet I'd be an A and she'd be a Z in personality, I enjoy her classes. The Hutt girl talks non stop (non stop), and often makes references to the Hutt "eh"? Like you can take the Hutt girl out of the Hutt but you can't take the Hutt out of the girl. I guess I kind of enjoy that as it reminds me - surprisingly enough of: - the Hutt!
Today in one of the hill tracks (and I think it was track 5) she suddenly said "imagine you are going up the Wainuiomata Hill". That's the first time she has said that since I've been going to her classes. Usually she makes references to Makara. When she makes the visual reference, I usually in my mind find a couple of the hill climbs that I find hard on my Martinborough route. But today, I felt a bit like one of Pavlov's dogs. I heard the word Wainuiomata and suddenly I was there in my mind on the Wainuiomata Hill. I suspect (I maybe wrong) that I was the only one in the room who considers they know every bend and turn on the Wainuiomata Hill road. It was weird because I haven't been over that Hill for about at least 4 years, but I have been over it hundreds if not thousands of times. I've even walked over and back a couple of times. In some ways it was good to have that brief few minutes on the Wainui Hill in the RPM room for no particular reason - just because I could go to that space if I wanted to. Although, I'm clear in my heart that it's the 'rapa ones I want to explore more and get to know as well if not better than I know the Wainui Hill. I did think after class though, one day near Taupo, I'd quite like to ride on my bike the Wainui Hill just to prove I can. I acttually think I could ride it at my current level of fitness based on some of the hill climbs I've done. That though may just be a delusion!
At the end of the class the Hutt girl asked me my name. We missed the introduction thing when I first started going to going to her classes. Maybe she thought I wouldn't become a regular.
Aside from her being from the Hutt, I respond quite well to her "motivational lines':
Do you want to get meaner? - YES
Do you want to get leaner? -YES
Do you want to get faster? - YES
Do you want hot legs for Summer - YES
Why are you here?
What is your goal?
It's about determination
Of course, because I'm like the silent Speaker of the House - referred to in a previous posting, I never actually call out YES - (noone does!) but I do think YES, and it's good to be reminded.
The Hutt girl gets a "shout out"for all of the above, but also because a few sessions ago, she made a random comment about keeping a journal or mapping your rides and heartbeats. I'm not in to checking my calories I've burned or what my heart beat is - although once I get my new watch I may be. The comment though did prompt me to finally get around to getting this blog going.
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