Day 21: Fallout

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 6:00.

And that was pushing it today.

I woke up in pain--not as bad as my first few days of walking, but bad.

I worked for a few hours, then took what I thought would be a reasonable nap.

Six hour later, my husband woke me up so we could figure out dinner.

This is progress, right?!

Right?!?!?!?!?

Walking for less than 15 minutes should NOT be this hard. People around the world are facing much more difficult challenges.  Most of them don't have trouble doing something as basic as walking.

And this line of thinking is not helping me feel any better or be more motivated.

Someone tell me this whole situation gets better...

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0021
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0021
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 142:52
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 2.3
MILES TO GO: 997.7 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 115 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 24 YEARS 343 DAYS 10 HOURS 26 MINUTES 5 SECONDS

Day 20: Wahhh

. . . HOO!!! YIPPEE!!! HOORAY!!!

For the first time since starting this blog, I beat my initial walking time!!! I walked for 0.2 miles for 12:41!!!

At last, something worth celebrating!!!

And here I though I was going to be stuck in the middle, not making much progress, for-ev-er!

And, literally NOTHING indicated that I would be able to do any better.Then, BAM!!!

Tonight, I was so frustrated. I started hurting at 1:37, and then I got mad about that.

My husband was running boring raft races on Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I just kept telling myself, " You can hang in there until the end of this race. . . . You can hang in there until the end of this race. . . ."

And so I did.

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE
NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0020
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0020
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 136:52
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 2.2
MILES TO GO: 997.8 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 13 YEARS 240 DAYS 18 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 24 YEARS 304 DAYS 21 HOURS 49 MINUTES 6 SECONDS

Day 19: Middle

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 7:48.

Here I am, in the middle of the daily grind.

The pain isn't as bad. Walking isn't as bad. I'm not as bad at exercising.

The speed is slightly better (1.2 instead of 1.1). The average time per day is slightly better. I'm feeling slightly better.

Yet, I'm nowhere near where I want or need to be.

I'm just... in the middle.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0019
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0019
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 124:09
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 2.0
MILES TO GO: 998.0 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 118 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 349 DAYS 18 HOURS

Day 18: Cats

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 6:43.

An adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical CATS is planned for release on December 20.  

Not sure what to think of it. 

The trippy plot defies pretty much all logic. 

Hope the big-name actors don't make as big of a mess of it as the bulk of them did with the recent version of Les Miserables.  And Mama Mia!.

I just about went off on a tangent about that, but I realized that I'd be digressing.

Anyway, cats. My mom has two of them.  

Well, maybe, 2.5.

Okay, 3.

She never really liked animals. Then, one day, she got a cat.

Or, more precisely, the cat got her.

But you know what the cat's really got?

My tongue.

Because I don't know what to say about my exercise.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0018
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0018
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 116:21
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.9
MILES TO GO: 998.1 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 119 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 324 DAYS 10 HOURS 25 MINUTES 16 SECONDS

Day 17: Clip

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 7:01.

When we went on a dinner date this evening, I was thinking about how slowly I was moving,

BUT

before I could say anything,

my husband commented that I seemed to be walking at a faster clip than last week.

That'll put a spring in my step and a smile on my face again.

(But *not* thanks to FHP.)

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0017
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0017
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 109:38
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.8
MILES TO GO: 998.2 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 120 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 296 DAYS 4 HOURS 40 MINUTES

Day 16: Hints

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 7:08.

Not as long as yesterday.

However, rather than continuing to deteriorate, I am seeing hints of progress.

Though I have difficulty getting up in the morning, the aches and pains are duller, more tolerable, somehow more manageable.

My average walking times are increasing.

Recovery from exercise is a tad quicker.

I can navigate flights of stairs with greater ease.

I can haul multiple items--not just myself.

I can help pack and unpack the car.

My overall mood is lighter.

My mind is more awake, alert, and active,

which means shutting down for sleep is more difficult.

Insomnia is becoming a problem.

Again.

But

--and here's the kicker--

I can survive with lower sleep

WITHOUT

losing my sanity.

As I said, hints . . .

of progress.

I'll take 'em.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0016
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0016
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 102:37
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.7
MILES TO GO: 998.3 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 121 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 264 DAYS 12 HOURS 21 MINUTES 11 SECONDS

Day 15: Stop

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 9:24.

Today, I was practically delirious when I started walking.

(Reason: Another member of my family got on the treadmill around 10:00 p.m., right when I arrived home and wanted to get on it. I could literally hear the rapid serious of beeps indicating the start of the treadmill right as I walked in the house. She knew I needed to exercise, too, and she'd been home for HOURS before I was. Then, she FINISHED WATCHING THE REST OF THE MOVIE after the 45 minutes walking, which meant I couldn't get on the machine for almost 2 hours!!! So frustrating!!!  Especially since we were exhausted from traveling over the weekend. Also, everything is worse because I'm tired.)

Needless to say, when I accidentally hit the emergency STOP button at 03:26 into my walk and couldn't resume my stats, I about lost my already fragile grip on my emotions.

Luckily, my husband was willing to text me those stats, and I restarted the treadmill from scratch.

I walked an additional 5:58 and finished my longest walk to date since Day 1.

Stop the presses, folks, we may actually be making some progress.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0015
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0015
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 95:29
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.6
MILES TO GO: 998.4 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 122 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 228 DAYS 18 HOURS

Day 14: Thinking

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:21.

Tonight, we watched the most masterful production of Hamlet I have ever seen and probably ever will see. (Kudos to Quinn Mattfeld for his brilliant, revelatory rendition and to the rest of the cast and crew.)

I do my own share of second-guessing, getting caught up in my head, procrastinating when I should act, wondering whether it's all worth it, thinking...

It's paralyzing.

I also wonder what I'm going to do when I travel somewhere that doesn't have a treadmill. Can I count the walking itself, because that's the ultimate goal, or do I literally count only the stepping on the treadmill?  What right, honest, reasonable...?

"...for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

(Not sure I quite agree with "nothing," but definitely with most things...)

Still pondering the practicalities for how to handle the goal when it's truly not achievable, because I don't want that to become a derailer.

Open to ideas...

As for today, I stepped on the treadmill at the hotel.

But, I did my walking at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0014
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0014
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 86:05
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.5
MILES TO GO: 998.5 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 123 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 188 DAYS 2 HOURS

Day 13: Motivation

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:14.

I did not want to step on the treadmill today. I did not want to walk today. Nothing about either of those things appealed to me.

I did them anyway.

I wanted to stop at 1:27.

I didn't.

At 3:36, I kept asking myself, "Are we there yet?"

Every step was a drudgery.

At 5:14, I finally stopped. 

You know why?

Well, to be honest, because the number of miles read 0.1.

I guilted, shamed, cajoled, wheedled, bribed, and pulled out all the rest of my mental and emotional bag of tricks to just make it to 0.1 miles. I already feel pathetic. I wanted to avoid the black hole of failing to make that milestone.

So I draaaaaaaaagged every part of my spirit, mind, and body through EVERY. SINGLE. STEP.

I thought I'd NEVER finish...

I remembered having a conversation with a friend (different friend from earlier posts, if you must know) about the difference between motivation and determination.

People who work on their goals only when they feel motivated shortchange themselves--they work on their goals less than half the time they could.

People who are determined work on their goals nearly ALL the time.

Today, I definitely was NOT motivated.

Jury's still out on how determined I am.

*crickets*

You want to find out?

Well, so do I...

(To Be Continued...)

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0013
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0013
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 80:44
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.4
MILES TO GO: 998.6 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 124 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 141 DAYS 11 HOURS 8 MINUTES 34 SECONDS

Day 12: Rough

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:16.

Today was a rough day.

I worked 14 hours.

I stayed up too late.

My peeps are going through some crazy cra-zap-ola.

So, I cried, like, a *bazillion* times. (Bazillion--that's a technical term.)

I'm just not up to much that's ambitious right now.

But, I still dragged my sorry boo-tae to the dag-blasted treadmill and did my sweaty business.

Never you fear.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0012
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0012
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 75:30
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.3
MILES TO GO: 998.7 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 125 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 27 DAYS 12 HOURS 27 MINUTES 57 SECONDS

Day 11: Yo-Yo

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 8:14.

Yo, whattup homies??

Hey, hey, word play... Though that wasn't the "yo" I originally had in mind.  Just a riff.

Or maybe a wiff.

"Stop it, I mean it."

"Anybody want a peanut?"

(Movie reference anyone??)

But, I digress.

Nevertheless...

I seriously need to get back on topic.

But, maybe I never was on topic, and therefore that is the topic, and thus going off topic is not going off topic at all...

Okay, okay.

Let's get down to business, and defeat the . . . PUNS! (Another movie reference . . . ?)

(And, true confession: technically, that's a word play, not a pun.)

Alright, alright, alright... (Yet another movie reference?! . . . Apparently, I need help. . .. )

ANYWAY . . .

I'm procrastinating. 

Last night--ray of sunshine, beacon of hope.

Subsumed by . . .

This morning--all encompassing black abyss of misery and endless woe.

COULD NOT MOVE. 

Could not wake up. Could not get out of bed. Could not think. Could not walk. Could not. . . .

Yet, somehow, did all of those things. Not very well, but did them.

And worked a full day.

And walked longer tonight.

Who knows what tomorrow brings?? (Song reference??)

Regret?

Or Satisfaction? (As in . . . I can't get no . . .)

Optimism?

Or Dispair?

Pain?

Or Pride?

Or maybe all of the above.

I get knocked down, but I get up again... (Oh, come on. I couldn't help myself.)

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0011
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0011
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 70:14
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.2
MILES TO GO: 998.8 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 126 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 25 YEARS 24 DAYS 10 HOURS

I will survive!  I will survi-ive!! Hey-hey! (Eh? Eh?)

(Made you look.)

Day 10: Signs

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 7:16.

Today, as we headed toward the freeway, we saw two advertisements for health product companies with similar images of lush lavender fields, obviously competing for market supremacy. They leverage the potent images of nature to offer viewers an ideal vision of attaining health naturally, via their supplements.

Like those seemingly innocuous signs warring for domination of public investment, the twin combatants for my personal investment are sleep and exercise. 

For many folks, the two work together. 

For me, they are locked in a bloody battle to the death. 

The more I exercise, the more I need sleep to recover, the less I am able to sleep because my mind is alert and my body is in pain. The more sleep I get, the more my body heals, the more lethargic I feel, and the less I want to exercise.

Add in a dash of iron-deficiency anemia and lack of sunlight, and all signs point to unmitigated disaster.

All signs, that is, except one.

Today, I walked for longer than I did on any one of the previous eight days.

The day that I surpass my Day 1 time?

Well, that will be worthy of celebration...

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0010
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0010
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 62:00
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.1
MILES TO GO: 998.9 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 127 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 24 YEARS 314 DAYS 21 HOURS 49 MINUTES 5 SECONDS

Day 9: Hurts

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 4:33.

So, I showed my mom this blog for the first time today, and she read through it and laughed.

Not sure how I feel about that.

Granted, she's been on her own exercise journey. . . .

She also asked me where it hurts.

My response?

Where doesn't it hurt?!

Oh, you mean my toes that rub against my shoes, the little muscles in my feet, the constant charley horses cramping my calves (not sure if it's the gastrocnemius or the soleus, but somewhere in there), the burning in my thighs, the pinching in my hips, the rocks in my core, the tightening in my shoulders and upper arms, and the tension in my neck, jaw, forearms, and hands. Plus, the muscles I didn't know I used when walking... Sure there's the gluteus maximus and medius muscles and the hamstrings... but the gluteus minimus??? I swear that hurts the worst, and it's so, so, small, but unnervingly vertical.

Her reply?

So, you're saying it hurts everywhere. . . .

Yup, Mom. Pretty much. 

Pretty. 

Much.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0009
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0009
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 54:44
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 1.0
MILES TO GO: 999.0 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 128 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 24 YEARS 224 DAYS 23 HOURS 59 MINUTES 59 SECONDS

Day 8: Slow

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:13.

Today, I knew that we would be out of commission for most of the day, so I faced my trial early--before noon. 

That cost us five minutes 13 seconds of walking, plus some recovery time before we could leave the house.

In addition, due to the events of the prior week and how thrashed my body has been, I was slow preparing for the day, which cost us an extra 2 hours (doubling our preparation time).

I feel like everything takes me SO LONG to do...

And I spend most of that time thinking and agonizing about how long it will take and how tough it will be instead of doing it.

Argh!
NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0008
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0008
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 50:11
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.9
MILES TO GO: 999.1 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 129 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 24 YEARS 114 DAYS 21 HOURS 19 MINUTES 59 SECONDS

Day 7: Resigned

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:31.

I am resigned to stepping on the treadmill every day.

I am resigned to walking until I can't stand the pain.

I am resigned to the muscle cramps and whole-body aches.

I am resigned to working at my job with these distractions.

I am resigned to never feeling better.

I am resigned to the full-day tiredness, the exhaustion.

At last, I am resigned to sleep.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0007
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0007
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 44:58
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.8
MILES TO GO: 999.2 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 130 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 23 YEARS 342 DAYS 6 HOURS

Day 6: Wasted

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 6:25.

All day, I combatted my pain by thinking of pithy quips to post.

By the time I needed to head to the treadmill, I was practically delirious with whole-body tiredness... You know, the kind of tiredness that causes you to feel like you may not even have the energy to put one foot in front of the other, and that it wouldn't matter anyway, because you can't see your toes? The kind of tiredness that makes you feel like you are mentally wasted, dizzy, and on the brink of losing consciousness? The kind of tiredness that makes you feel like you want to fall into blissful slumber and never have to wake up?

Well, I walked anyway.

Then, I weaved up the stairs and passed out.

Without writing my blog post first.

Morning came too early.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0006
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0006
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 39:27
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.7
MILES TO GO: 999.3 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 131 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 23 YEARS 164 DAYS 16 HOURS 17 MINUTES 10 SECONDS

(Good thing blog post times can be set retroactively.)

Day 5: Wiped

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:10.

I originally thought I'd continue riffing about the aches and pains and ailments and other sundry intricacies of how I'm feeling, but I'm too tired.

My body is DESPERATE for sleep.

I walked anyway.

Desperation will have the last word on the day.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0005
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0005
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 33:02
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.6
MILES TO GO: 999.4 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 132 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE: 22 YEARS 292 DAYS 20 HOURS

Despera . . . ZZZ . . .

Day 4: Agony

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 6:45.

To the humiliation, sweat, perpetual aching whole-body soreness, drudgery, and dispair, we now add agony. 

Twelve- to fourteen-hour workdays without breaks have become writhing eternities of unending torment.

Now, I not only eliminate copious amounts of fluid when I'm on the treadmill, but I've started breaking out in cold sweats and chills whenever I think about the treadmill. 

Which happens two or three or fifty times a minute.

I've resigned myself to the task, but it nevertheless consumes every spare thought and intrudes on the not-so-spare ones.

Has anyone developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) about exercise?!  Not making light of PTSD or those who suffer due to facing much more serious threats--just trying to grapple with a much-less serious issue that is nevertheless causing me to seriously re-evaluate my life and my choices.

I'm wondering whether it ever gets better.

Seriously, does it EVER get better?!!!

The only glint of silver lining in this ominous, looming, ever-present cloud of darkness is that I walked more than a whole minute longer than yesterday.

Then, I drowned my sorrows in a bowl of cookie dough. 

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0004
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0004
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 27:52
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.5
MILES TO GO: 999.5 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 133 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT AVERAGE PACE:21 YEARS 325 DAYS 18 HOURS

Day 3: Pit

GOAL: STEP ON THE TREADMILL
STATUS: COMPLETE

I walked for 0.1 miles for 5:44.

If yesterday felt like the aftermath of a run-in with a Mack truck, today was the fallout of a brutal collision with a freight train.

Every fiber of my body felt torn, swollen, achy, crampy, and badly in need of rest.

I pushed fluids. I had vegetables and vitamins. I took a small amount of over-the-counter pain medication. I stretched.

My body and I are not in good shape, people. That much is clear.

I'm curious, does anyone else have spectral visions of Count Roogan seated nearby, intoning, "I just sucked one year of your life away. Tell me, how does it feel?"

True confessions, I took a nap. 

For an hour. 

In the middle of the day. 

Wrapped in a heated blanket.

And... I woke up feeling worse than I had before.

"Remember, this is for posterity, so, please, be honest."

I ranted to anyone who would listen about how utterly crappy I felt. I told my husband I didn't want to do this anymore... I give up... I quit.

Folks, the PIT OF DISPAIR is real!!!

After listening to me exhaust myself with complaining and whining and wanting to run away, he reminded me how much I wanted to keep my commitment to myself, and that all I need to do to be successful is to take one step on the treadmill.

Just one teensy itty bitty step.

I thought maybe I could do that. 

This once.

So, I put on my big girl gear, stepped in some tenny runners, and trudged my way begrudgingly to the infernal recesses of the downstairs to meet my adversary.

I stepped on him.

And I kept on walking. 

All. 

          Over. 

                    His.

                              Trash.

For 22 more seconds than yesterday.

Gotta celebrate the little victories.

NUMBER OF CONSECUTIVE DAYS WALKED: 0003
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS WALKED: 0003
TOTAL TIME WALKED: 21:07
TOTAL MILES WALKED: 0.4
MILES TO GO: 999.6 OUT OF 1000
TIME TO GOAL AT CURRENT PACE: 27 YEARS 134 DAYS 6 HOURS
TIME TO GOAL AT CUMULATIVE AVERAGE PACE: 20 YEARS 192 DAYS