BFL has helped improve my thinking.

If the ladder is not leaning up against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
-- Stephen Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Yesterday I got all carried away with a long-winded post about my borrowing power tools and building two shelves in our garage to store all our ’stuff’. But I’m still pondering the question, "If you’ve gotta store that stuff in the garage and it takes a ladder to go retrieve it, then just how important can all that stuff be?"

This morning while pondering this very question, I opted to crank up the percent incline on the treadmill to 3-percent. This was my first cardio session on my current challenge (BFL C#10, Day 2). Followed the prescribed 20-MAS and HIIT a "10" on my last sprint cycle. My heart was pounding, the lungs were burning, and my legs had a tough time keeping up with that rubberized, rotating track.

Damn it felt good to quit! But then I realized that for the first time in quite some time, I hadn't.

I was huff'n and puff'n all the way up the stairs as I went to take in my juice, vitamins, CLA, and creatine punch. The heart was still working at an elevated rate as I stepped into the shower.

Now I need to do that at least 35 more times before the end of this challenge. Thirty-five ain't so big a number. Cardio doesn't need to suck. I've got to keep reminding myself that now I'm training for a 5K race. This is my new "ladder" and climbing it won't take long. I've gotta make every workout count. There can be no easy days if I'm to re-discover what I'm truly capable of.