The WALL

BEFORE watching the movie "Run Fatboy, Run!" I had no word for that fight your body gives when you first start eating right and working out properly. When your body just wants to quit and is letting you know it in ALL KINDS OF WAYS. Fatigue, panting like Fido, limbs won't move,etc. There was a part in the movie where the main character just COULDN'T go on and they showed him standing in front of a brick wall 10 miles from the finish line. He had to break through this wall (mentally) before he could continue on to the end of the race. And thus mustering all his might, he did just that.

I hit my wall yesterday at 29:38 on the treadmill. After doing the Couch to 5k Training (my warm-up) I was at about a 2.5 Incline going only about 3.0 (treadmill speak). It was that exact time that I wanted to quit. My body realized what I was trying to do and it was going to sabotage any effort I made to keep going lol. I stopped breathing correctly, my legs hurt, arms hurt, hell my ENTIRE BODY WAS ON FIRE. SO I paused the workout, took a sip of water, thought about this dress I have to wear for my friend's wedding in October, took a BIGGER sip of water and started that damn thing RIGHT BACK UP! \o/ Victory is MINE!!

NOW this is what "the wall" really is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon#Glycogen_and_.22the_wall.22