My Journey With Weight Loss – Today Was Harder Than I Expected

I keep seeing pictures of our resort where we keep our trailer and it doesn’t look good for a lot of people. From the overhead pictures we believe there is a small chance that the water did not get in the trailer (and I do mean small chance) but we know all of the items stored under trailer and stored in the outside counter are toast. The positive to this is if the water got high enough to get in the trailer it likely has ruined the outdoor patio furniture which I was trying to find an excuse to replace anyways. Here’s hoping the next big storm they are predicting for early next week doesn’t make things worse.

Today was my hill interval training. I had to do 10 intervals running up a hill and I picked a pretty steep one. I haven’t done any hill training for several months and even then I think the most intervals I did was 6. Further, before I would slow down the more intervals I did. This time I decided I was going to keep a good pace going each time I ran up the hill.

I could not believe how difficult this was. By time I hit the 6th interval I had decided get to 8 and then quit or maybe take the pace down a little. Of course when I hit interval 8 I decided screw it, you have come this far you can get to the end. I also opted to keep up that brutal pace on each and every interval just so I could say I had done it.

The end result is I made it. I found even walking (gently) down the hill each time my heart was pounding though it would slow a little by time I was ready to start the next climb. For some reason I also decided to run the last 3 blocks home just to get the extra kick in. The end result was I did a 50 minute full cardio workout. I thought this would be pretty easy since it was only 2 minute intervals and really I run 11-12 minute intervals now but no, that steep hill was a real bitch.

I will say that I am pretty impressed that I didn’t give into that urge to quit. Instead, I thought I want to do this a few more times until I can start doing them longer and faster. When I have those kind of thoughts I think just who the hell have you become? Apparently I have become a runner.