Day Fifteen

I'm not sure I even want to say much more than...

I DID IT!

This might seem overdramatic as I did not yet complete my goal, however, this might have been harder. Twenty whole minutes. Twenty.

I went to the gym as usual. I dreaded it all day. It makes me sad that I dreaded it and I cursed the Plan Gods. How am I supposed to make running stick when they jump too fast?! I trudged over there and tried to convince myself that I could do it. I had downloaded some new songs and arranged them just right. I did everything I could to be prepared. I even went during the Superbowl to ensure I was alone in the gym (it worked).

I turned on the game on mute (trying to act like I cared), covered up the treadmill display and started my music. I didn't use my iPhone app as it was a fairly easy one to remember... twenty minutes in case you've forgotten. I told myself I would not even move the papertowel from the display until after three whole songs. I loosely knew the songs were about 4 or 5 minutes long. This was a lofty goal. I had anticipated getting to 10 minutes and walking for one minute and going for 10 again. This was defying the gods, but come on... twenty.

First song up? "Fighter" by Christina Aguilera... starting out strong "'Cause if it wasn't all that you tried to do I wouldn't know just how capable I am to pull through". Little winded but ok. Next up was "Yeah!" by Usher. Little harder to get through but do-able. And then the kicker... "100% Pure Love" by um who knows really?! This classic 90's hit was a long lost love and I smiled right away. "From the back to the middle and around again, I'm gonna be there till the end, 100% pure love" Oh how I missed you! This is where I thought I'd look at the display, but for some reaon I didn't. Maybe it was because the next song was "Sexy Chick" and I wanted to hear if they really did say "neighborhood whore" or if Carissa was pulling my leg. Turns out they say "hoe" but close enough... however I personally like the following lyrics "Yes I can see her, cause every girl in here wanna be her, oh she's a diva, I feel the same and I want to meet her". So I jogged right through that song too.

Next up was Tik Tok... my good old Mick Jagger admirer I spoke about in a previous post. I looked at the display anticipating something like 12 minutes... Holy Crap, I'd gone over 15! I put the paper towel back on the display and spent the next minute trying to make sure my math was right... 20 minus 5 warmup mins equals 15... check. Wow. Shut Up. Now I figured I didn't have a choice but to keep going. How good would it feel to be able to say I actually did it?! So Tik Tok kept me going, but towards the end it was getting really, really rough. My right foot started falling asleep and I was getting a little light headed. By the time Fergalicious came on I was so ready to be done. I started leaning on the panel and probably looking like I was possessed. I threw the papertowel from the display and stared at that damn time keeper. I couldn't push slower fast enough when it turned 25:00 and I just chose to throw my ear buds out and get off the thing. Ugh.

I thought for sure I was going to either pass out or throw up. Thank God no one was in there. I sat on the weight bench for what I can figure no more than 2 minutes as when I got back Fergalicious was still on. I then did the 5 minute cooldown and wanted to stop every minute of it. I won't even try to describe how long it took me to recover, it's embarrassing. However, I did have some wonderful chocolate milk.

It can only get easier from here right?! Say I'm right!

For the record: 2.22 miles in 30 minutes