Zumba and Weight Lifting Woes

I have become a zumba addict and a weight lifting addict.  I think these are very good addictions and do not plan to try to recover from it.  I recently discovered that I can now wear zumba clothes.  I fit into zumba clothes! Zumba clothes run kinda small, so I was not expecting to be able to fit into them yet.  I bought this outfit as something to work toward.  It is an XL (they go up to XXL).  I'm very happy about being able to wear zumba clothes now, but now I have trouble.  My normal zumba class has been canceled and will probably not resume until June.  With it goes my weight lifting (body pump style) class.  I am annoyed to no end.  The contracting company that pays for the class instructors at the base gym used money that was supposed to be for them to pay for other things (refs for games and such) and now they are out of instructor money until the new contracts start June 1.    We asked the instructor if we could pay her and she said that she was told that if she let us do that she would be breaching her contract.  Excuse me?  They already did that by not paying her, how can they tell her that she can't let us pay her?  I have a place I can go to for zumba, but I will have to pay for classes and it won't be my regular teacher.  I also have the Wii zumba game, but while it is fun, that is really not the same.  Plus, I have no way to replace my weight lifting class. The instructor was sweet enough to give me the CD with the class playlist on it and I can use the weights, but it still won't be the same thing.  I need her!  I'm pissed off and very worried that I will lose some of the progress that I have made.

Running

So I have given up on C25K.  I have not, however, given up on running.  I was hating the C25K and I thought that meant I hated running.  I don't hate running, I just hate being told what to do when it comes to my cardio.  I'm now setting my own goals and just listening to normal music while I orbit the track.  Yesterday I ran all the way around the track for 2 separate laps (laps 2 and 9) in lane 8 which is .2779 mile.  I am running something like half of the time I spend on the track through about lap 10, sometimes I can make it to lap 15 before I am full time walking.  I run 1/4 of the track, then walk 1/4, then run, and so on.  I use the markings on the track to tell me when to run and when to walk.  I will keep working to make it more running and less walking.  I tried C25K several times and never got to the point of being able to complete a lap around the track running.  Just a couple weeks into doing it my own way I can do that.  I am working up to doing a track marathon - that's 94.28 laps in lane 8.  Then eventually, a real marathon.  Then a cute little sticker for my car, lol!