Thursday, July 28, 2011

From excuse to progress

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson

Over the past week my calves & Achilles have been really painful so I have had to back off on my training a bit.  I can't blame anyone but myself, I decided to increase my mileage more than the recommended 10% and now know why they say not to.

During my "down time" I started to feel like this was one more thing that I started & couldn't finish.  I finally decided that I'm not going to get anywhere if I keep making excuses, so enough is enough.  Yes I'm slow, have you ever tried to move 204lbs on your own?  It's not easy, but I'm doing it.  I've gone from a pace of 20 min/mile to somewhere around 16:30.  That's better progress than no progress.

In short, "I didn't come here & I ain't leaving." -Willie

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