Minute by Minute

Happy November! I hope everyone had an excellent Halloween and that all the law students out there are ready to sacrifice all the hours of their day on the altar of productivity. I also hope everyone remembered to say 'rabbit, rabbit' first thing this morning for good luck. (Don't give me that look, its a real thing.)

Today's run was 5 minutes running, 2.5 minutes walking. It was harddd. Mostly because it was tacking on 2 minutes and decreasing my rest time. Obvi. Anyway, the first two segments were ok, I got through them feeling pretty good. The third segment was the tough one - my shins started hurting a LOT and I had to pause to rest and stretch them out. Then the motivation was sapped and I was feeling all "can I even do this?" and I even considered just stopping.

BUT.

I stuck it out for another minute, rested again, and then convinced myself that even if I had to take a break every single minute, not finishing was not an option. So I finished the third segment. Then I took my 2.5 minute walk, and was feeling much better by the time the last 5 minutes rolled around. I completed that all in one go - I coxed myself through the last minute by counting out an imaginary power 20 in my head.

And now I feel good! I'm at home, icing my shins with a bag of frozen peas. It's not even 6pm so I've got plenty of time to have dinner and then head back to put some hours in at the library. Eggggsellent.