True Grit
If I had started writing this update two weeks ago, it would have been a completely different post.
For those of you following along in-depth, I’ll stick April’s numbers and the running total at the bottom but the numbers are really not what this update it about.
Nope-tivation
So I’ve reached the Long Walk section of this challenge: I’m no longer increasing my distance week upon week, my fitness level is up, and now we’re just steadily adding a bunch of floor every visit. Three months ago I had figured this would sort of be the easiest part, in a sort of “switch your brain off and just do the thing” kind of way.
As it turns out, that’s not at all the way my brain (or my body) works. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had to desperately scrape together motivation and determination for more than a few gym visits. I am still doing the floors, but I am hating some of these sessions, no joke. Adding to all of this is the fact that I have had to stop taking antihistamines for my hay fever, because they make me feel even more tired, heavy and -frankly- like a sweaty heap of trash. I knew this was a risk from taking antihistamines in previous years and it would appear that, this year, I’ll be rawdogging the allergy season. Snif.
Quarter
Even with all the whining and complaining, I’m 25% done! With the May sessions completed so far added to my total, I’ve just surpassed 25 kilometres. This means I have:
- comfortable left the Troposhere behind and entered the Stratosphere
- made my way to the middle of the Ozone Layer
- have passed the equivalent distance from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Mount Everest
- rose above any weather. Clear skies from here on out.
Make me do it
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The Numbers
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ADDED ELEVATION: 9.445 kilometres
TOTAL TIME: 7 hours, 1 minute, 30 seconds
TOTAL FLOORS: 1889 (47,225 steps)
AVERAGE STRAIN: 4.1 out of 5
AVERAGE VIBES: 3.0 out of 5
TOTAL
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CURRENT ELEVATION: 23.235 kilometres above sea level
TOTAL TIME: 17 hours, 44 minutes, 14 seconds
TOTAL FLOORS: 4647 (116,175 steps)
AVERAGE STRAIN: 3.8 out of 5
AVERAGE VIBES: 3.25 out of 5