May 4, 2011

Day 124: Bring on the Pain!

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong


TRAINING

HIIT - Run:
a. 4 min jogging
b. 12 x 20 sec sprint/10 sec easy
c. 10 min jogging

Stretch 41 min.


COMMENTS

Sleep - Time and Quality: ~8 hours. Broken, on and off sleep.

Mood/Aggression: Finding the positivity and something to smile about, keeping the amusement.

Joints: I woke with pain in the superio-medial aspect of my right knee - pain has lingered all day, but surprisingly, the least noticeable when I was sprinting.

Endurance: Good.

Quality of Training: HIIT was great. My sprints were all explosive - right up until the last three, where I felt myself slowing down. Continued on. Spent a long time stretching afterwards. I WAS going to do an Upper Body resistance session after my stretching, but by the time I had finished, still sore, I decided to do it tomorrow instead, let my body recover from the last two days in the gym.

Recovery: My body is one big painful bruise. The pain is fine though - I love it. It reminds me of why this is my lifestyle, why I can never give it up. Lance is right - pain is only temporary; it passes, and if you do it right, leaves something great behind!