11/09/2026
Even though I wasn’t expecting great results, I was ready to run The EQT Pittsburgh 10k this morning.
But then my heart went into afib last night.
I would wake up repeatedly all night and got up at 5:30. Still in afib.
So, I went out for a warmup run to see if it would break me out.
It failed.
So, at this point I had to make the right decision and not go to Pittsburgh.
So, I went to the gym and started very slow and my heart rate kept going higher and higher. Eventually it would hit 161 bpm, which I haven’t worked in the 150s in years.
As a matter of fact I think I’ve only briefly hit 140 a handful of times.
I would keep lowering the pace by .1 and my heart rate was standing at 157bpm for over a mile. Part of me was saying stop. But the other part said although I was going slow and my heart was racing, I was not dying figuratively or literally and I could suddenly breath while I ran (shortness of breath gets me bad when my heart goes psycho). So, I decided for the last 20 minutes, I would increase the sp*ed .1 every 1/10th of a mile, after every song and after the treadmill credited me 100 calories.
Then while singing along to Creed, my heart suddenly dropped down to 120bpm at the 42 minute mark, my heart kicked back into its normal rhythm and was at 118 and it was on.
So on a day where my heart took me out of a race by deciding to go psycho on me, I may have broke through a mental block that wouldn’t allow me to push my heart past 135 bpm.
Now, let’s see if today’s failure possibly leads to tomorrow’s success.
Oh and I’m down 7.3 lbs in 10 days.
