Caution

It's been a few days since my last post and there's a story behind that............

Last time I posted I had been sick with the flu, not the FLU, just a light version of the flu. This hadn't gotten to me enough to keep me from work but made me a bit miserable. I missed 3 days of workouts and was planning on going in friday morning and getting back at it. After dealing with work stuff and definetly feeling much better I went in at 11am. I was kind of hoping for a short but intense workout and planned on taking it kind of easy, using some caution.

When I got there I noticed the workout was anything but short. Some of the times already on the board were over 40 minutes. I got started thinking of going slow and using caution. Of coarse, once I got going, I pushed real hard and through caution out the window. When I finally finished, with a very mediocre time, I had Pukie beating on me and trying to get the best of me. I suffered through it and took off to go back to work. Unfortunatly about an hour and a half later I was crawling into bed. Melanie placed a bucket next me with only minutes to spare and I was offically sick with the FLU.

The big mistake here was not using enough caution. I didn't listen to my own good sence or, the smarter thing to listen to, my wife. I knew I needed to start slow and kidded myself that I was cleared to go. I probably could have gotten off with the "flu lite" and instead went three days with a fever and no appitite. My competitive spirit got me in trouble. I didn't want to fall behind in my training progress and instead am now having to suffer a larger set-back. Such is life.

So what is there to be learned from this. How about caution, meaning: it's better to be safe that sorry. One step forward isn't worth two steps back, not if you can take a quarter step forward and no steps back. That being said, I am going to wait until latter this week to work-out and my first few workouts are going to be walk-throughs.

I hate taking a setback on my work-out progress, but I really hate laying sick in bed.............Caution.