think about how fast 3 minutes is. it is not even the length of an average song on the radio. seems like if asked to get something done in 3 minutes it would be over before you knew it. well that is all except running for 3 minutes straight. today i started week 3 of my couch to 5k training and i had to run 2x's for 3 minutes. heavens it seemed like 3 hours! the first time i so wanted to quit and almost did but pulled it out. i am proud of myself and i know that i can do this even though i sound like a freight train and am slow :)
heading to a lake with my peers tomorrow to hangout on a house boat and speed boat then spend the night at a resort and hit the town - super fun but also full of crazy temptations - tons of booze, bad food and temptation. i really have not had anything to drink in 3 weeks and think it is helping with me not making bad food choices. this will be followed up by a 4 day sales meeting next week which is always a crazy party of constant alcohol and bad food. i know that if i can make it through the next 8 days i am on a good trend.
here goes...
I have written a lot about the clock over the years. I have been in my current free weights class, with NO clock, for well over a year now. It was very hard for me to let go of the clock and just do whatever she (instructor) said, for however long she said and not think about time.
ReplyDeleteSo, as you can imagine, I REALLY understand the three minute thing.
Not saying you should not look at the clock. I am saying for those 3 minutes the clock for you is like the instructor for me. Have to just do it.
Sabrina has been suggesting (for as long as I have known her) that people pick something like telephone poles or mail boxes and then run between every other one. so fast paced walk to first one, then have to make oneself run fast to the next one, and then recover while walk to the next one, etc. I realize you are beyond this as it takes a lot longer then 3 minutes to run to the next one. but your post made me think of it, because it is the same idea, an outside force making us push ourselves.