P90x Day 41 - Kenpo X, 1 mile run

"I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I'm happy again"

There is nothing like Kenpo to start you back in the right direction. I got a great workout today and it was absolutely everything that I needed. I really worked it about as hard as I have during Kenpo and I was soaked when it finished. Soaked in sweat but if felt great.

So then rather than just shut it down I decided to lace up my shoes and go for a run. It was raining and I almost didn't run but I figured that I was already sweaty and I wanted to run so screw it. I actually got a great run in and running in the rain was really calming and relaxing. There wasn't anyone outside and it was really quiet and peaceful. I got alot of thinking done out in the rain and I really felt like the rain was washing away the last week and putting all of the obstacles in my way behind me. I could have ran the whole run with my arms out like Andy in Shawshank just letting it was away everything. The run overall was really good. My legs continue to feel great while I'm running and I think my lungs are coming around. I just got a mile in today and it was by far the best run since the time change. I think next week I'm going to bump to to 1.5 miles and see how it goes.

I'm going to stretch tomorrow instead of resting I think. I've rested enough recently and I think I should get stretched out in anticipation of what I hope is going to be a great week of workouts. I'm tempted to add one more workout week into this phase because of all the sub-par workouts that I got in this week but I'm not going to. This is a marathon and not a sprint so I don't need to get bogged down in the fact that I didn't get 100% out of this last week. I'm trying to focus on the fact that tomorrow will be 6 weeks of continuous non-missed workouts and not on the fact that some of them haven't been my best effort.

Only two weeks left until my next weigh-in. I'm really hoping that I can put up at least the same numbers as last time. But if I can't I'm hoping to be under 240. I feel like I can see a change in the mirror so maybe once I take some pictures I'll be able to see the progress in them if I don't see it on the scale.

I hope everybody reading this has a great rest of the weekend.