Feeling which you feel when you are not able to achieve what is achievable for you.
Many of you don't know that this year on 29 July I took a pledge to myself to run for every single day for a year. And things were going well, I was feeling fine, some days I felt some cramps but foam rolling and massages were there to help me out through these days. And I was quite motivated to do what I had decided and when on 12th October Eluid Kipchoge became the first person to run a marathon under 2 hours, I was like yes I will run for every single day for a year and no one can stop me from doing that.
I was running nice, my form was looking good and days were passing by and I was feeling good.
And then on 22 October my brother messaged me asked me that he will help me run my first sub 30 min 5K on on my 90th day of this running streak which was on 26 October. And I was like YES LETS DO IT.
So I recovered the whole week from 23 October to 25 October.
Me and my brother were coming home from college and job respectively for Diwali and we were so excited to achieve this 5K mark, do some long runs together and enjoy.
And I reached Kota(hometown) completely relaxed and recovered on 25th October and then something happened which I never expected I felt some fever that night so I took some medicine and milk and went to sleep. But the morning of my 90th day wasn't like I wanted it to be, the fever was still there. So I decided to shift my plan to 27 october and just did a light run on my 90th of running streak today thus I went for a run but just after 1.2kms my right knee was paining badly. But I forgot that thought and ran 2.2 kms with my bro.
After the run my brother did some stretching for me and I was fine, now came the I was waiting for last 7–8 days. It was a cold sunday morning and my body was paining like hell I couldn't even move and inside me I was thinking that I have lost everything my 5k record, my 365 day streak everything. And then after sometime the realization came that I have chicken pox and I said no way and that was it I wasn't able to run from my 91st day and thus my streak endend.
THINGS I HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS SITUATION:
1. You need to learn to accept the situation.
2. I win or I learn I never fail. You must try to LEARN TO LEARN.
3. Sometimes it is better to look back in past and see what you have achieved, it will help you feel better. Like in my situation I looked back and saw that I ran for 90 days regularly whatever may be the condition and it helped me feel better.
4. Your body is like a vehicle if you are using it you need to refuel it. This was my major mistake I ran, I worked hard, I used my body to full extent but didn't gave it back the fuel to recover.
This time before coming home for Diwali holidays I was so excited to enjoy the festival with the family but nobody can stand before god's decision and my thus my Diwali didn't went the way I wanted it to be.
This is how my 5 day Diwali break was extended to 10, my parents helped me a lot towards my fast recovery otherwise these 10 day could have easily been converted to 15 or 16. There were times when I was just sitting on my bed and getting everything like food, water, fruits, milk I mean everything, really a big thanks to my parents for all this. Though this break helped my body to recover a lot but on the other hand there will be a lot of academic load on me from now onwards.
My next aim is to train for my first 10K race on 22nd December in Pune and to study hard for my end-sems which are starting from 2nd December.
It's grind season homie.
