Some personal milestones achieved

It’s still early in the morning and it’s already been a good day. I’ve achieved some personal milestones today and I thought I would share.

Firstly, I completed day two of week 05 of the C25K program. That means I am officially over the half way point. Today I had to do two runs of eight minutes each with a five minute brisk walk in between. I found this surprisingly easy. The first eight minutes shot by and my heart rate never went higher than 158 the whole time. The second eight minutes the highest my heart rate went was 164 bpm. I’m mighty impressed with how my body has adapted itself. Five short weeks ago my heart rate was up at 172 bpm doing a 60 second run! The last three minutes of the second run was reasonably tough but there was never any doubt in my mind that I would finish it. I gave a loud ‘Hell yeah!’ once I finished. Fortunately nobody seemed to notice.

My first milestone leads into my second milestone as well. One of my goals on 43 things is to be able to run 1km in a row. Well, today I did it. My eight minute runs today both covered 1.3 km. That means I did it twice! Very happy. It’s not much to some but to me it’s fantastic. My next running goal is to be able to do 3km in a row and coincidentally my next session of C25K should see me achieve that goal as well.

My third milestone that I achieved today is also one of my goals on 43 things. It is to be able to do 25 pushups in a row. Well what do you know, I managed to do that before my run this morning. My next goal will to be to do 30 in a row.

It’s amazing how far I’ve come in just a short while. I never thought I’d be able to run but now, after a few short weeks my body has adapted and shown me that all things are possible.

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February 15, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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6 Responses to “Some personal milestones achieved”

  1. MarshmallowNo Gravatar on February 15th, 2008 1:24 pm

    The awesomeness is… awesome! :-D Well done, you!

  2. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 15th, 2008 2:09 pm

    Praise from an athlete. High praise indeed. :)
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  3. SallyNo Gravatar on February 15th, 2008 6:51 pm

    Well done :)
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  4. JohnNo Gravatar on February 18th, 2008 3:21 am

    Great job! Keep looking to stretch those goals out too, as you knock them off your list, add more. Looks like you have been doing that already, so sounds like you are on a great path.
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  5. AndrewNo Gravatar on February 18th, 2008 10:07 am

    Thanks John. I was inspired by your own story of breaking the running milestones. :)
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  6. CynthiaNo Gravatar on February 18th, 2008 1:54 pm

    Well done!

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