Push through failure

Wow. I don't know where to start. Monday was fine. Wednesday was really hard and today was near impossible. The lactic acid in my calves is off the chart. I spent a good chunk of time this afternoon looking up how to get rid of lactic acid. Apparently you can't. There are bogus ways reduce it - eating bananas, stretching, drinking water etc.... but nothing to rid yourself of it except to not work out as hard. It won't build up if you build up a tolerance. Great.

There was a point tonight that after running, I was in so much pain that 2.0 was tough. That's slow in case you are unaware. I know that without pain there can be no muscle growth but there is a pain threshold that you can or can't tolerate something. This pushed mine and I don't want injury so I took it slower. So it looks like I will be going back to either week 1 or doing week 2 over. I'm hoping for a re-do of week 2. Disappointing. And for the first time, I don't feel good after working out. I can't figure out if it's because I failed c25k, day 3, week 2 or because I am hurting.

But the important thing is I did NOT quit. I am a was quitter (with certain things). This is normally one of them. If exercise gets too hard, I'm done. But instead of wussing out after 10 minutes, I kept going and finish the remaining 9.5 minutes on the first week schedule- 60 seconds of running followed by 90 seconds of walking. 


Marking off my progress is going well... well the fact that I am doing it is going well. I am not however doing a great job of doing all of these things but I am aware of them. For example, I hit snooze every. single. day. this week.

I did not exercise on off C25K days when I should be weight lifting. I did drink a lot of water and NO soda. But I did have alcohol. I also did not act energetic once and every time I said I was tired, I cringed. I will work on this one next week - it'll be my focus. Listening to music does make me feel more awake and in a better mood. We cooked in bulk one night. I made my own lunch and breakfast every single day and practiced the one minute rule. I also did not allow myself any excuses. I either did something or I didn't but I didn't make myself feel better for not doing something.