Today was a very strange day. I woke up this morning and opted to get some more rest because I just didn't feel 100% yet. So I get up a bit later and my wife is sick. Not just sniffles, but she's throwing up on and off an d feeling like crap. Well she says she's not feeling that bad so I run into work to get something done with the caveat that I'll come home early if needed. Well about 3 hours later my wife calls me and has been throwing up even more and can't hold anything down. So she heads to the Clinic and takes the kid with her and I leave work to meet them there. Well from that point on I'm on babysitter duties as my wife sits in the clinic getting IVs of fluid and anti-nausea medicine. So the kid and I fend our ourselves until we pick her up a few hours later. Get some prescriptions stop by and grab some food and home we go. The wife is exhausted so I'm on babysitter duty until the kids konks out and THEN I have time to work out.
With all that keep in mind that I've spent at least 4 hours trying to talk myself out of working out. Not the casual mental games, I mean serious "come on, you can take a day off" anti-motivation. Then I start the bargaining, do plyo or running, move the running to tomorrow what's it matter. Blah blah blah.
The wife fed the kid to put her down at 7:45pm. I started Plyometrics and busted my butt doing it, then when it was over and it was time to cooldown and stretch, I paused the DVD, laced up my shoes and went for a mile run in the cold, cold, blackness of 9pm night. I got it in, got home, unpaused and did the cooldown and stretch and took a shower. So now it's 9:30 and I'm just getting to blogging and TV. I feel really good about getting everything done that I wrote down and didn't allow myself to make workout excuses. I wish my eating had been a little better today, but I'll make progress over perfection.
So today was my first run since right around the time change. My legs felt really good but my lungs sucked it. I can't tell if it was the cold, the first run back, the fact that I just busted my butt with an hour of jump training, or some mixture of the above. It's going to be a long road to trying to do a marathon in late October, but I think I'm ready for it. My first 5k of the year is mid April of this year. I'm hoping with the training and this additional working out that I'll be able to put in my first sub 30 min performance. We'll see. My "natural" pace isn't that quick so I'm going to have to push myself that's for certain. I'm going to get a mile in today, thursday, and saturday this week and I think I'll bump it to 1.5 next week and just go up .5 a week until I'm at 3 miles.
Anyways, alot going on today but despite all the obstacles I was able to do what I wrote down on the schedule. I'm not going to allow my mental weaknesses to contribute to my physical weakness. That is what got me where I was.
Back and biceps tomorrow. I'm looking forward to pushing play on this. The new workouts for this new phase are pretty interesting.
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