I still got some life in me
You can try to shake me
I still got some fight in me
But you can never break me

-Skillet, Standing in the Storm

I close out my resistance week with a strong showing. Unfortunately, yesterday must'a beat me down, 'cause I slept in to 3:33 AM. Nevertheless, I tore through my 38-minute Arms day, stripping out half of my rest being sets in order to make up time.

I rolled into the gym parking lot a few minutes off my pace and did the following:

• 15 minutes on the Arc Trainer
• 26 minutes of my run/walk program
• 10 minutes with my 1:1 minute spin bike
• 29 minutes on the BRC outdoor loop

I was stoked with that last segment because my walking pace was more than a minute faster than yesterday and beat my best on that course 47 seconds. As to my overall best in 2023, I was 51 seconds slower than that target, so it is something I am gunning to accomplish next week.

As I do every morning as I refuel, I watched the Duck Call Room. They were closing with viewers' emails when they read how a woman mention she accomplished her goal: along with dropping 200-somethng lbs in 2 years, she also hit 10,000 steps every day for a year. I thought to myself, "I could do that step goal. I just need focus and consistency." Even yesterday, I was lamenting that I break my Garmin goal streak every week because I shut things down every Sunday. Once upon a time in 2020, my goal was 20K a day which I hit ALL the time.

And thus, starting back on Tuesday, May 16, I am kicking off a 10K steps a day for a year challenge! Why backdate it? I have been doing just that lately:

• Tuesday: 13,145
• Wednesday: 13,685
• Thursday: 14,041
• Today @ 9AM: 10,030

This has been my most successful week in 2023. Screw 2021, I am coming for you, 1995. As it is, my Xero Prio's remind me of my old, black, wrestling shoes (and I jogged everywhere in those things, cotton field ruts and all). And I'm still the same me as I was then. I take the same amount of medication as I did then (0). I have that same fire inside of me as then. The world's gone crazy, but She Couldn't Change Me.