My adventures in trying to reclaim my life continue.
Finally strangely even though I have been under insane amounts of stress lately, I feel more balanced and more productive. In the last two weeks I have been working out about 4 times a week better than I have been doing in years. My professional life is doing better too.
I went to the gym on Friday afternoon last week after a long meeting and saw a team of personal trainers training for THE MUD RUN. I took a photo but it doesn't capture at all the intensity of their workout. Each one was at a station and after 3 minutes they would change. They were bench pressing crazy amounts of weight, doing this weird variation on burpees, lifting medicine balls, and all of them were in great shape & were dripping in sweat.
I was on the treadmill alternating between jogging and walking quickly up steep hills (6 to 10% incline). I had been proud of myself and then when I saw them working out, I got freaked.
My brother, the great motivator that he is, has been yelling at me to run more dammit cause he wants to do well. At one point in February I thought I can get back into shape by June, maybe I can do well in this race.
Then somewhere in March I decided that I just want to finish without throwing up.
Now I don't care if I throw up on myself or on an innocent bystander or two, I just want to finish.
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It sounds like they were doing CrossFit (http://www.crossfit.com/). I've done some of their daily workouts and they're great. It frightens me that they were using this for the Mud Run, though... I thought it was basically a cross country run. Now I'm frightened. I think we'll do fine. We can always wimp out and "break our wrists" if we want to stop running (haha)!
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