Today was a tough one. I found myself up late again tossing and turning and I decided to turn my alarm off and get the proper sleep last night. I couldn’t do another two and a half hour night of sleep. I did, I slept well and I went outside about 1pm today. It was a little warm but I didn’t check to see how warm because I didn’t want to put the temperature in my head. I started and by the end of the first lap I was pretty sore already. The bottom of my right foot was killing me and my left shin was getting sore. By the start of my second lap I decided to walk a bit so this would hopefully go away. By the middle of this second lap the pain was getting worse and I thought it might be a short day for me today. I didn’t like that feeling. Throughout the rest of the second lap I did a lot of soul searching and I told myself that maybe to make the progress I am trying to make there has to be a little pain and if the pain hasn’t put me on the ground then I can still go, so I did. I kept on and by the fourth lap of five I felt like I was 20 pounds lighter on my feet. I finished up, dead tired and totally pleased with the way my day ended up. Tomorrow is a day off from the cardio but it is back to the gym I go. I know the physical progress is being made but today there was a big step in my mental progress.