My Journey With Weight Loss – Pushing Myself A Little

I spent most of last night listening to the current storm that blew threw last night. The wind was pretty strong and the rain was heavy. I lay awake just dreading the fact that I would have to do my 8 km run this morning on the treadmill and you know how much I hate that.

I got up early as there was plenty to do this morning. Of course it was still stormy out so headed down to the garage. After my 5 minute walk to warm up I started running and since I notice my usual pace is no longer keeping me in the cardio zone I decided to do 40 minutes of my workout at a much faster pace than I am used to. Yes, this was tough but as I neared the 40 minute mark I thought, what the hell, if you hold out for another 20 minutes you will have done 1 hour at this pace. Of course then I convinced myself I could do another 15 minutes to get me to my 5 minute cool down walk.

I got through of 1 hour 15 minutes of running at a pretty good pace. So, how did I feel afterwards? Well, at my normal pace I would have run 8 km but today in that timeframe I ran 10 km. Much to my surprise my legs had not turned to jelly and though I was sweating pretty profusely I never got really winded at all. According to my Fitbit, I had done a good cardio workout throughout that run. I will admit a while later when I was doing my squats my quads were complaining a bit but not too much.

Will I set that as my new pace? Not for every run but I think I’ll give it a try once a week and for the other runs pump it up a little for my normal pace or alternate the normal pace with intervals of the more intense running. It still amazes me that even after having met the original goal of being able to run 10 km I am still finding ways to get even more fit.

I think that pushing myself a little is just going to help me get to that 20 km run.