First of all, I heart the eliptical machine. It's awesome. It gives you a much better workout (in my opinion) than the treadmill.

So, when I started back to the gym, I was disappointed to find that I couldn't do it for more than a few minutes before my legs felt like we were going to fall off before I could go any further. So I retreated to the treadmill and did my workout there.

I made it my goal to conquer this machine. With tons of determination and my music I took to the eliptical machine, set on making it through a 30 minute workout. I set it on level 1 and went to it. To my surprise, I made it through the 30 minutes and the speed for the majority of my workout was 4.5! YAY!

I was exhausted by the time that 30 minutes was up but I moved onto the treadmill. I set out to do another 30 minutes there. I was just going to walk it out but then halfway through, I got the urge to run. So I ran for 1 mile at 4.5.

My legs felt like they were going to fall off for real by the time I finished with that but it was worth it. I haven't felt that good after a workout in... well.. maybe never.

I sit here with sore legs,  typing this feeling victorious!