Chain (and Back?) Broken

I’ve been putting this off long enough.  I can’t put it off any longer.  I’m not going to make it through this challenge.  I hate writing this, but it’s only right.

For some reason, my back has decided to hate burpees with an unbelievable passion.  I can do a few right now, but can’t crank them out in any kind of numbers.  It stinks.  I guess that’s what I get for trying to go from a near zero-level of fitness all the way to a pretty serious level of workout in just a few weeks.  In my younger days, that wouldn’t have been a problem, but now, alas, it is.

So, what did I learn from all this?

First of all, I’ve got my eye on another challenge.  It’s not a physical one and should, therefore be more doable. I’ll unveil it in a few days, but I’m pretty sure I’m settled on a rather ambitious (for me) scripture memory plan.  I have to finalize it a bit, but the gist of it is that I’m going to memorize some serious scripture over the next 99 days.

Getting back to the learning thing, I think I learned a little about myself.  The only times I didn’t do my burpees were when something with my body prevented me from doing them – or once or twice when I forgot.  However, that’s really not good enough.  The whole point of the thing is to string together 99 days of perfection.  99 days of absolute perseverance.  That’s a huge growth area for me and I failed miserably.  Yes, I’m having back problems, but still, I need to figure this thing out. I need to reel off 99 days and complete one of these.

Now, just to give myself a break, it was a difficult challenge and, as mentioned previously, it’s not easy to go from zero fitness-wise to a fairly high level workout in that amount of time.  My body just wasn’t ready.

So, then.  We have a 99 Day Challenge rule to live by or something like that here:

Make sure you are as prepared as you can be before taking on a challenge.

Don’t enter into these things lightly.  That’s what I did and it didn’t go too well.  This next one will be different.  Really coach.  I swear.

Thanks for following along and thanks for all the encouragement on Twitter and Facebook.  Especially Jason Williams and Rob Barry.  You guys consistently ask how I’m doing with this thing and I appreciate it.  Sorry to have let you down.  Are you up for another go round?