Shot for the moon, fell in the stars

August 18, 2008 at 8:19 pm · Filed under progress report and tagged: exercise, progress

Today was the day: the first day I would get up early and go work out. 

When I woke up, I was not feeling that great. My knees and back were achy, I was hungry, and well, a little tired as well. I was plagued with thoughts of quitting and pain, but a pep talk eased all those fears.

My goal was a 30 min workout, consisting of some warm up, a 15 min light jog, and a 15 min brisk walk to finish it off, and some stretching. It took some time to find a warm-up pace, but that went okay, but when I began to pick the pace up, things started to fall apart. I couldn’t stay on pace very well–I’d run really hard, then really slow, then really hard again. This only lasted about 8 min.; after that, I had to walk the rest of the half-hour, but at least I did that much.

Upon Nicholas’ suggestion, I also stretched after a cool down. That felt immensely good, and now I don’t ache nearly as much as I thought I would. Overall, I am definitely feeling a lot better than I did previously, or even than I anticipated feeling. I got back in plenty of time to shower and relax before getting started with my day.

Expect another progress report on Wednesday.

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