I LIke How It Feels Still

It would seem that I have stopped writing again (if anyone cares) in Mr. Doherty’s blog. Sometimes it comes to pass that a writer needs a summer break a hiatus just like a TV series. I could put up some old posts but even if some of you haven’t read some of the earlier installments I choose to stay current and not repeat.  An old friend told me when I first started blogging with My Life After AA not to post anything a second time and for the most part I have stuck to that premise.  

It is not for lack of afflatus that I can certainly tell you because I love spinning with Tripper and in his inimitable style he has broken the mold of what the stereotypical spin instructor should look and sound like. There are not many that can pull in the numbers he does in all the venues he teaches in. Let’s see if I know them all. There’s Woodbury of course, Roslyn, Great Neck, Scarsdale, Manhattan and his newest club Greenwich. The response to Tripp is pretty near universally the same in that he is a hugely inspirational man and he makes you feel good which to me is a gift more valuable than gold. I love him primarily because he makes me laugh and scratch my head at the same time. He is truly a sentient soul.

Moderation

One of my inspirational friends gave it to me straight today in Tripper’s class. And let me say for the record that she is not the first person that’s mentioned this aberrational part of my personality. I like children have two speeds; fast and off and as an adult and 61 years of age you would think that moderation would be just par for the course. Who else beside me would embark on an insane exercise regimen when I am not in training for anything? Not too many people I would venture and could it be that I finally listen to the PQ and actually try to settle down just a bit?  When I walked into the CS this morning it was my intention to take Kristen’s class at 9:45 but as I unclipped I took the advice I had heard so many times before and I finally decided to take it. And of course my extreme behavior needs an attitude adjustment outside the Lavender Palace too!

Tripper was his usual high-octane self and if class is only going to be 45 minutes long like it is in many other places we can afford to let it all hang out (except yours truly) because it feels like its over in a Woodbury minute.  This class has become hugely popular as well because at 7:15-8:00 members can get an earlier start on their Friday without waking before dawn and yet be ready to carpe diem before the rest of the world starts their day at 9.  

Moderation. I have to see if I can fit this into my nature because it’s a cinch I won’t be doing any ultra-marathons or running up the Empire State Building again anytime soon. I will leave those jaunts for my friend Tripper and some of the more spry members of our class.