Project 20 - Week 18 Update | Adjusting the Goal After COVID

Welcome back to Project 20!  Week 18 is done, but it came with some unexpected changes. COVID hit me hard this week, throwing off the original plan to go for my sub-20-minute 5k in two weeks.

After testing positive on Tuesday and negative by Saturday, I’ve realized it makes sense to push the goal out by four weeks, extending the program to 24 weeks. This decision isn’t easy, but with the critical training time I lost, it’s the best path forward.

This journey has become a personal test of tenacity, and I’m determined to see it through. Let’s keep going—more updates and more grit to come!

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Well, I really wasn't expecting that, so the week 18 update just finished week 18, so in two weeks time I was supposed to be doing my, hit out and sub 20. at Parkrun. But Mike Tyson says it best. Everybody has a plan until you get punched in the face and well, COVID punched me in the face. So that's all right. It's, it's one of those, I've been in business for 30 years. You have plans and goals and something new and comes along to change, you know, new data or, or, or an incident, and you have to rejig. And and while you don't want to make those decisions lightly, because I was really attached to, you know, October 26th I was going to run sub 20 minutes of parkrun. And so while it's easy to say, oh, well, you've got COVID now, you need to change that. You need to, you know, Make that decision, because it is a big decision to push that out. If you, if it was an easy decision, you would be flippin about the goal, so, I don't know if that makes sense, in my head it does. I, I, I, if I'm going to ha, you know, move something that I'm very much attached to and focused on, it needs to be in my mind a big decision now to push it back four weeks and go, These are the reasons why, and these, you know, and not bad reasons, like, but this is the thing that's happened, this is the new data, and these are the good reasons, or the reasons that make sense of why it's now going to be a 24 week, you know, program. I'm making a guess there, I haven't spoken to coach about this. I'm assuming because it's been in four week blocks that we'll just extend by four weeks because that makes sense. Coach mathematical sense. I wonder, I'm just going to go with that. I certainly believe we're both on the page that it's not going to be in two weeks time because I just, this was the last four week block where it was going to be three more weeks of training with a rest week. Or just my basic eights in that last week and then hit it. I've just lost over a week of that. So more than a third of what I would have thought is really critical training in this last little bit. So, you know, it make, it certainly makes sense to extend it. So yeah, I tested I tested positive on a Tuesday and by the Saturday I was testing negative again. For me, it just felt like cold and flu with extra tiredness. When I'd go for a run, I felt fine in the cardiovascular and the respiratory, but it was my legs felt super fatigued. And I've never slept so much in my life. So, maybe maybe COVID gave me the, you know Um, so, that's my week out, week 18 update, which is, there's not two more weeks of updates, there's probably six more weeks of updates, so, I've had fun doing these, so why not? It certainly is like my own little journal to my own little, you know, thing that we do to, I guess, in all parts of our lives at some point you've got to have a little bit of something going on that's, For yourself, testing your tenacity and I think I like, I think some people connect with the word grit. I like tenacity. Grit sounds like dirt and something that, you know, the vacuum cleaner's for. So, this is my little, you know, tenacity project to keep me on my toes. Week 18 update. See ya!