Push-Update

So you may recall that at the beginning of April I stated I would do at least 2000 push-ups in April. All was going remarkably well. On April 14 I had completed 1455 push-ups. I was pacing to shatter my goal of 2000. Then something happened. I can’t quite put a finger on it.

Oh yeah, I stopped doing push-ups. I did 85 over the next 13 days. So it was April 28 (1540) when I realized I was about to fail a self-imposed challenged not because of injury or conflicting obligations, but because I had given up. It turned to midnight, no push-ups. I now had 48 hours to complete 460 push-ups. Yikes, that was nearly half of my goal for all of March. So I cranked out 90 and went to bed. When I woke up, I was sure I was defeated. I still had 370 push-ups to go. But I did sets of 30 or 40 and busted out another 250 before midnight. So the 24 hours that was April 29 was witness to 340 push-ups. Now I was saved if I wasn’t too sore to do any more.

The next day I was sore, but not too sore. I did 90 before I went to work. That evening I went lawn bowling with Jared and Cora (more on that later) and went home relatively late. Just before 11:30pm, I realized I had a few more to do, so I rolled off 31 so as to exceed my goal.

2001 push-ups in April

(17% of them on April 29)

3451 since March 1

So what about for May? What's my challenge this month? I like the idea of doing two thousand push-ups as I really want to get to ten thousand. However, I feel a bit silly breaking them all up into little sets of 30 or 40. So, I'm going to build push-up endurance by starting in week four of the 100 push-up challenge wildly named onehundredpushups. When I am done, I'm buying a t-shirt. Who wants to do this with me?

PS: After posting with large gaps in between, I posted two in a row here over the weekend. Scroll.