Did I say difficult? I meant extremely hard!

I have been through my first week and a half of boxing class. The instructors are awesome! They are these young guys who like to have a good time while putting through some painful circuits, runs, and heavy bag punches! On the upside...they put on some practice gloves and you get to take out some aggression on them too! Ha.
The low down is that the actual class starts at 7:45pm....BUT if you want to then you can come at 7 and get in some extra cardio. A 35 minute run before class on the treadmill or outside (weather permitting) is optional, and to make matters even more enticing it is supposed to be 4.5 miles! For those of you out there not mathematically inclined, like myself- that is less than a 10 minute mile! I personally like to sprint more than staying in it for the long haul...so I find it a bit difficult to not become ADD on long runs which makes me want to stop walk, and look at the flowers. I don't do it on purpose...this upsets me because it isn't that I cant run for 35 straight minutes, its that I don't want to! Therein lies my problem- it becomes a mental challenge when all I want to do is not think about running while I am running. Does that make any sense? My solution? I turn my IPod up way past the recommended decibel range and huff it out. Who needs eardrums when you could have a six-pack and look amazing at 40 or 50?? If I know I look good- I don't need to hear other people say it!!!
OK, back to my class...so optional 35 minute runs before the actual class begins- then we jump rope to warm up (3 sets of 2 minute continuous jumping, because that is how long a 'round' is in amateur boxing.) I thought this would be easy cause I can jump rope all day long- the next day I wanted to cut-off my calves and feed them to the dogs, because that would have been less painful than trying to walk through Target to get some IcyHot. After that we begin the legs circuit of just body weight squats, lunges, jumping lunges (or scissors), and squat jumps. Yeah- I played the tough girl pretty well during the workout, however, it took me 3 days to recover.

So that has been my first week and half of boxing...did I mention that I will be doing this until April??? Pray...or at least think of me.