So yesterday I am on the treadmill doing WK9/Day3 of the 10K program and my ipad that I am watching keeps wanting to fall off of the treadmill. I have never had this problem, ever! But I just could not get the thing to say up there and I couldn't figure out why. Anyway - I am about 1 min from the half way point and it finally falls, hits the treadmill belt and shoots like a rocket between my legs. So I have to stop the treadmill and pick my ipad up. Some of you may read this and think "ok - whats the big deal", right?

But for me mentally it was a huge deal. I tried to get back on, but mentally I just couldn't get back into it. My time was now messed up since I technically didn't run the full 10mins stretch and I was going to have to redo wk9/day3. I know it seems a bit extreme, but I am a perfectionist and this is the way my mind works. I tried to reason with myself that I knew I could do it, I had done it twice before during wk9/day1 & 2, but to me that felt like cheating. That the 19mins that I had done was a waist. I finally gave up and left the gym and I was so mad and upset with myself....until.

It finally hit me on the way home. I had just ran 19mins! That in itself was an accomplishment, hell a workout even! Nine weeks ago I couldn't run 3mins. My running mishap and not being able to finish didn't define me! The fact that I had just ran 19mins should be what defines me.

I guess my point is that I think sometimes we are so busy being hard on our-selves that we don't take the time to appreciate and even Celebrate our accomplishments! That instead of finding things to use as our reason to quit or give up we need to look for reasons to keep going! Celebrate even the small stuff. The positive is there we just need to look for it sometimes.

What an accomplishment thanks for sharing!

Im the same way, petty to most, but if Im not on track my whole work out gets blown , congratulations though 19 minutes is awesome!

You are doing GREAT! Congrats on the run....but more importantly, for the great attitude. Keep on keepin on!

Girlfriend, you are rockin' it! Keep up the great work!!

If you ran 19 minutes today, there is absolutely no reason you cannot run 19 minutes tomorrow, then the next day, and so on...then 30 minutes and so forth.....

That is how I motivated myself....I built off of previous accomplishments...do it once, can do it again, no reason I cannot....

I now run 5 miles a day in 45 minutes as a routine...I kept telling myself I did it yesterday, I can surely do it today..... .tell myself that everyday and now, it is as natural and routine as can be.....I could do more but I get bored after 45 minutes....so I stop there....but I have been increasing my speed, staying within the 45 minutes = using the speed setting as my new motivation and goals...again, I ran at 8mph yesterday, can do it today...right? And if I do it today, which I will because I know I can, no reason I can't do it tomorrow....

When I was doing the program you are doing, I always had to stop and start over from the beginning if I got interrupted....and if I could not finish the day/session, I would go back and start over at the beginning of the week and work back to the day I had a problem with.

I wanted to be sure that when I finished the program, I was actually trained and in shape to do it everyday, not to say I completed it as in a competition....

Thanks everyone! Encouraging to know its not just me.