My Journey With Weight Loss – Really Pushing It

I went to take my dog for her morning walk today and had only just passed the next door neighbour’s when I realized I had forgotten poop bags. Being a responsible pet owner I turned around and headed back home to get them. The problem is the dog loves her morning walks so when she realized where I was headed so soon she put the breaks on. I walk her using a hands free leash meaning it wraps around my waist so I put all of my 120lbs into it trying to get her to move. She, all of 25lbs, was having none of it and it took a few treats to get her moving.

A few posts ago I talked about how I felt I wasn’t putting enough into my workouts and for some reason I still feel that way. I know I have been getting more than enough training done and still work out 6 days a week. I really don’t know where that feeling is coming from or how to overcome it.

Today was hill training day so off I went with a jog until I got to the bottom of the hill. Ok, I thought, time to turn this around. Hill training is one of my shorter sessions and I add a bit to the workout by jogging to the starting point and when done jogging back home. Still, the whole thing only takes about an hour. I started my first climb and thought, you really need to push this today and I did. The first 9 intervals I ran pretty hard (quite the change from when I used to do this training). When I got to the 10th interval I was pretty proud as I know my heart had been in my target zone the whole time but I knew this last one needed to be the best one I had ever done and it was. When I say I ran up that segment of the hill I mean really ran, legs and arms pumping, starting to breath heavy, heart rate at the top of the zone.

I got to the top and thought, holy shit, did you just do that? Yes I had. I just felt I needed to really test myself today and apparently I passed. I walked for a block and then did a nice gentle jog back home the whole time with a smile on my face thinking ok, that was a good workout.

The lesson I learned from this is I need to push myself more often. Let’s see what I can do on my 14k tomorrow.