It pays to push!

The other day I wrote about me not pushing myself enough and how I constantly wuss out on things.

 

Before I started running, I thought, well there's no use doing on 3 or 4 kilometers if you've already done 6 or 7. That's just going backwards. I thought I needed to constantly be pushing the kilometers up to get better.

Well, I changed that thinking.

 

Last night, I set myself on a quick route around my neighbourhood. I'd played softball Wednesday night and usually my legs are a mess. Since, I didn't run much during softball (not a great hitting night) my legs were feeling a little tired but decent. No shin soreness, just a little fatigued.

 

I decided that I want to do the 4K route right around where my house is and that it each kilometer had to be under 6:30 and I wanted to be 25:00 minutes.

 

Well, for the most part I did it.

 

My km times were as follows

 

1: 6:17

2: 6:08

3: 6:23

4: 6:11

 

I managed to complete it in 25:00 minutes.

 

I probably could have gone a bit faster at the end, but I was distracted by my husband and kids sitting out on the lawn watching the construction vehicles.

 

I wouldn't say I was completely out of my comfort zone the entire time, but by the end I was really pushing myself. My brain even tried to adjust my goal, or be alright with something other than what I set out to do, but I shut that down quite quickly and said "Nope. We're doing what we set out to do!

 

And I did it!!

As an added bonus, my husband mentioned that my legs were more toned and a lot better!!

 

Linking up over at Running Bloggers for Fitness Friday!!