Jordan and I are taking purposeful time each day to work on physical strength and endurance.
This means six days a week we have seven planned workouts, plus six daily yoga sessions.
We’re also focused on eating at certain times of the day, and eating foods that help us maintain level blood glucose and not spike it. So there’s a few dietary adjustments we’ve chosen to incorporate as well.
Saturdays are our double days for workouts, and this includes running skill drills and a long hike.
At the end of the week, we’re pretty busted. So when we got a mile into a 7 mile hike yesterday (half directly uphill), we knew our legs weren’t going to handle the rest.
Don’t get me wrong. We could get to the top. It would have taken some time, but we could have gotten there. But we couldn’t have spent the rest of yesterday really recovering and then spending today getting the rest of the way prepared to handle the upcoming week.
My favorite thing to do when working out is to overtrain. Overtraining eventually (quickly) leads to burnout and quitting the plan.
So finishing isn’t the most important thing. Getting out and going is. Not every intermediate goal has to be accomplished. Not every hike has to end at the summit.
What matters most is going. Again and again and again.