Week 3: Day 3

2:10:03, 25.52 miles, 1349 kcal

My pace is too fast to make playing a new video game easy without slowing down. This makes the task at hand kind of boring. Boredom is a pain. This is still something I need to do and I will force myself to do it.

I found out I'm 1.4lb behind in the contest and while I could whine about still having to burn the calories to grab the same percentage loss, I'm not going to. I may have to work harder, but so does everyone else who's as overweight as I am. I'm going to have to do this twice, though, since the next round will be hit with freight train momentum already built up--something I didn't have when I started this.

I just have to hold on despite the boredom and aches. I'd rather do this now than when the weather is good outside. No pain and frustration suck as badly as those of failure. Short term success is seductive. The road ahead is about to get a lot more challenging in terms of the psychological side. I have to pay my dues and need to remember I'm working on losing 80lbs and that never comes easy without gastric bypass surgery.