Day 5 - Making it through the shit day

Have you ever had a total shit day?  I have, and oddly enough it usually starts from the moment I wake up.  Yesterday was a total shit day, and from what I've heard it was a total shit day for a few others too.

For me it absolutely started when I got out of bed.  My legs hurt so bad I felt like I could barely stand,

I woke up late and slept right through my alarm. Which, by the way, is instant stress.  I continued to push through and even convinced myself to show up to work.  But being at work was no treat either, I've been struggling at work also, my OKR's (Objective Key Results) don't make any sense, I can't seem to get a good understanding of some of the specifications I'm supposed to write and for the life of me I can't seem to find the data that I need to make good decisions.  I kinda felt totally useless yesterday and frankly I'm glad it is over.  Needless to say, I used yesterday as my rest day, which is a bummer because I was going to use the weekend as my resting days off.  So now I have to do a run on Saturday to really achieve what I set out to do.

But today is a new day,  I am refreshed, and this morning I woke up and I knew I needed to do the work.  That is life, it knocks you down and you have to roll with the punches.  Shit days are inevitable.  That is just how it goes, but I have to pick myself up and dust off all yesterdays bull shit and rock on into today. 

My sister once gave me a huge compliment.  She said "I admire your ability to never give up".  I also agree that is one of my best qualities.  We can't give up on things we believe in, and sometimes when things are not going your way it seems like the right thing to do is to give up.  I just can't do that, I have to see things through.  Even my company Hashbang Games, which constantly struggles.  I don't give up on that either as much as I want to.  It is a cockroach that won't die, but it's because I don't give up on it.

I'm not giving up on my fitness, even a total shit day won't keep me down.  And today's endurance workout at Orange Theory was just what I needed to set my mind right.  I pushed hard today,  I bumped up my pace.

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Okay, on Day 3 I gave some misinformation.  Apparently the  Base pace is 4.5-5.5 for runners, it's still +1-2 for each stage after that for Push and All Out.   And the numbers do represent miles per hour.  I think I was just even amazed that I run 5.5 miles per hours.  To me that is crazy!  Thanks Beth & Kevin for pointing that out! ;-)

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As I was saying, I bumped up my pace to an 8.0 All Out!  I increased my push to 5.8 and I slayed the workout earning 45 splat points!  995 Calories burned and I'm feeling proud that I bounced back and didn't give up after a shit day.  Special thanks go out to people that support me, Jen (Wifey), my friends and family for their great words of encouragement on Facebook!  It means a lot!

So I will keep rockin on!  One day at a time!