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I joined a gym almost 2 years ago.  I attempted a spin class twice.  The first time I didn’t expect to complete much so I did an easy 15 minutes of a 1 hour session.  Months later I decided I had been working hard there and was gonna try another go at it.  I wanted to do like everyone else was, standing, increasing speed, resistance, etc.  Well, I left after 10 minutes almost in tears.  My knees were killing me.  I have bad knees from childhood years being a major tomboy and stuff.  I haven’t been in the spinning room in over a year.  Yesterday I wanted to do something different there as I’m getting bored doing the same things day after day.  I asked honey if he wanted to spin with me so we agreed on a half hour because he had bowling so we still had to shower and go eat.  Well, I almost cried again. This time not because I couldn’t do but becauase I WAS DOING IT!!  Don’t know if it was because they recently got new bikes (seats are nice and comfy, didn’t hurt my butt) or if it’s me.  I was peddling faster, standing, upping the resistence.  I wasn’t doing it as long as everyone else was along with the instructor but I didn’t care I was doing it nonetheless.  I kept my heart rate anywhere between a 133 and 156.  At about the 25 minutes mark honey asked me if I was okay because my face was so red (I suffer from Rosace so my face turns really red when working out) and I didn’t look good.  When 30 minutes had gone by I thought about going longer but decided not to push it as I was getting very wore out and didn’t want to over exert myself.  Maybe next time I decide to spin I’ll add 5 minutes.