I am trying to step up my workout again. Aiming to get back to the five miles I was able to walk a couple of years ago, as well as losing some weight. Yesterday was an amazing day. I got one of the best workouts in for a long time. During the entire walk I felt strong, I found a pace that was comfortable and I could just keep going. It was awesome. When I came back I realized that I had done a new yearly best with a pace of 14:09 min/mile! That was just so awesome and I was so happy!

As always, I was a little dizzy afterwards but it wasn’t too bad considering the workout I had just done. I could easily keep going with my day and a very satisfied feeling.

Today I wanted to continue this awesome wave. It was a little windy so I decided to put long pants on and a t-shirt and headed out the door. In the beginning it felt really good. Mentally strong as well as physically. But then I came to 1.68 miles and it just stopped. I just stopped. Walked straight into a brick wall. Had to pause the app and breath. What in the world happened? It was like all energy was gone. I have never had that happened to me before. I have become tired but been able to push through but I just couldn’t move. After almost five minutes rest I could keep on going. Heading home. Trying to get some pace that was comfortable. But I couldn’t. I had to stop several times and catch my breath and try to manage the chest pain that occured. Slowly but surely I finally made it home. Sat down and relaxed for a long time.

I just have no clue why this took such a quick turn around. An hour of rest and I was back to “normal”. Dizzy on and off but the chest pain is gone and there is nothing really unusual going on to be me.

Now my thoughts goes spinning. What could I have done to prevent this? What did I do wrong, did I not eat enough, drink enough? Good grief, I ate a lot afterwards yesterday and drank even more. I slept like a rock over night and wasn’t tired.

Well, this is life with blood pressure and heart problems. Tomorrow is another day and we’ll see how that goes. It is always two step forwards, one step back, right? Determined that one day I will be able to do that 5 miles walks without problem and be in that shape I need to be.