So last night before going to bed, my wife gave me an incredible leg rub. I owe her big on that one because it was wake up and repeat. As I put in day 3's DVD, I felt my feet ache under every jump. They hurt worse than my legs, my but, or my back. I didn't realize how much strain would go on them. I'm trying to find out the best way to help my feet heal.
Through the workout I realized that as I kept going, my excitement was dropping in the middle of the set. This is likely do to two factors:
- The idea of something is usually glorified, but in the trenches it's vilified.
- I was too dang tired to feel like I was giving 100%.
For the second point, I want to let everyone know that I really was giving 100%, but I couldn't do the dang push-ups like I know I could have if I started cold and not in the middle of a set. I hated that and I felt weak again. I pushed through and did what I could, but I wasn't meeting my own standard. The thing is, I don't do the squats and jumps that are stressed in these videos, so in that sense, I've exceeded my expectations. I've got to see the up side if I'm going to see my downside.
For the first point though, this is something that I'm learning more and more. I often get psyched up about something, super excited, energetic, and hit the ground running only to trip, fall, and hobble the rest of the race. When we start something, we know we want to finish it, but we don't always know how bad it will be until we get there.
It's not the physical strain that is the hardest to overcome, it's the mental strain. It's doing what you know you're going to hate, not because you want to love it, but because you want to love having done it. It's the 20-20 hindsight that comes after completing the challenge that will make it all worth it in the end.
This is me, scraping myself against the wetstone, hoping to get sharper.
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