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  • Feb. 4th, 2009 at 9:03 PM
happy tea
I'm in a state of total knackeredness. It's all down to this evening's Body Jam class, which was great - but really took it out of me. I suspect I didn't have as much of 'it' in me at the start as I'd thought! I tend to be a little complacent about my fitness, because I've got "an active job" - but it's not so active this time of year; nor am I. Gulp! Must be more active *nods*.

Incidentally, the class is super-popular, to the extent that when booking opens the week prior to a class, it's full up within an hour or so (booking opens at 6.30 am). So until I found the motivation to wake myself up just to book into the class, bang on 6.30, I wasn't able to get on it. I managed it this morning, for next week, so feeling victorious.

I'm sort of pleased about how my report is going at work, in that I've done most of the number-crunching stats stuff, I think, to start on writing up the basic results. Last year was a huge effort, because not only was I working on that year's data, I was also overhauling all the previous surveys' data and compiling lots of new stuff too, so that I ended up pulling really long days - and evenings - in the office. This years is fairly simple, and I now have a template to work from (thanks to last year's slog). So hopefully I'll have time to do some more complex analysis, too. (The report is a stock assessment of the local crab, lobster and velvet crab fisheries, in case it wasn't obvious - which it wasn't :D)

So I may get on to some spatial GIS work soon, which might be fun - cool maps do, at least, look impressive in reports - even if lengthy discussions of intraspecific fisheries interactions and their socio-economics and geography can be pretty dry!

It's Wednesday. Tomorrow is nearly the weekend - yay :)

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[info]kit_the_brave wrote:
Feb. 5th, 2009 02:36 am (UTC)
Wow, that is some amazing class! Our gym can't even get the classes full when they try! What is it, exactly?

And yay for nearly the weekend!
[info]maple_clef wrote:
Feb. 5th, 2009 09:04 pm (UTC)
It is pretty crazy! A lot of the classes are quite popular, but I don't think there's ever the same level of interest as with this one... Body Jam is a dance-based aerobics class, basically. The routine is built up as you go along, and incorporates dance type moves from various styles of dance and music. The great thing about it is that you're so busy trying to get the moves right and do them well that by the time you realise what an intensive workout you're getting, you're already most of the way through the class! Lots of fun :)

(It's actually a sort of franchise - there are Body Jam classes around the world; they have a "new release" (new music and choreography) every three months or so. So, in theory, I could show up to any Jam class around the country and be doing a very similar workout.)
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