75 Hard – Read

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I love reading. Last year I read over 60 books. I always try to read a mixture of genres, authors, etc so I end up reading quite a bit of non-fiction books. So the idea of reading 10 pages daily of non-fiction wasn’t completely outlandish!

Though some days it would’ve been easier not to read. Or it would’ve been more enjoyable to spend my reading time caught up in a fictional world. I was able to get this part done relatively easily.

At the beginning of the challenge I would read my 10 pages and stop. At some point I realized that I could read more than that and actually needed to so that I could keep up with returning the books to the library on time! 

By the end of my 75 days I’ve finished 16 books total and finished my 17th on the 76th day. And 7 of those were non-fiction, finishing the 8th the day after. I’m also about half way through a big 700 page book too.

I’ll follow up with a list of my non-fiction books soon.

75 Hard – Daily Pic

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This was another relatively easy task to complete each day. The tracking app I used helped serve as a reminder in case I forgot. But I tried to take it in the morning before or after my shower. It was nice to mark it off early and be on the way to daily success!

I wrote on one of the first days that I wasn’t a fan of this task and didn’t really see the purpose in it. I’ve seen transformation pics from the 75 hard, but I had no desire to look at the pics daily.

Before writing this, I decided to look at Day 1 and Day 75. You can see some difference in my stomach area. But nothing too dramatic. I also recognize that for me most changes will be incremental since my lifestyle is fairly healthy to begin with.

Alot of challenges have you do a before and after and maybe a weekly. And for some people that’s motivating. Just not my thing!

75 Hard – No Alcohol

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One of the requirements for completing 75 Hard was not drinking any alcohol during the 75 days. For me this wasn’t really a problem. I maybe have a drink or two on the weekends or special occasions.

During January it was really easy as a lot of people celebrate Dry January. It felt a little more challenging after that. But realistically every place serves non-alcoholic drinks, even if it’s just water. Almost every place we went also served some type of non-alcoholic cocktail or beer too.

Sometimes I enjoyed one of those mock-style drinks, but I really stuck to water a lot since I needed to drink a gallon of it and any other liquid was just extra!

Day 75

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Complete!! 75 Hard is done. I’ll plan to write more over the next few days about the different aspects of it.

Today was rather uneventful. I did yoga this morning and then did the Out in the Open 25.3 workout in the afternoon. I also did a 1 mile sandbag carry to get the full 45 minutes done.

Walking the shuttle runs was kinda lame, but that’s still where I’m at.  They were also a little hard to count. On the buy out part I decided to just count each length instead of each lap. The thrusters were hard but I expected that since I did so much upper body yesterday too. I finished in 18:23.

Day 74

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My body wouldn’t really let me sleep in. My Saturday routine lately has been doing my reading then hitting the gym. I was a little tired and slow moving to get out of the house, so I had to mix up the order of my workout. I swam first and then did my lifts. I’ve been doing the bench and shoulder press. The pool was busy but the rest was emptier than usual. Like if I failed a bench rep no one would’ve been around to help!

The morning was warmish but my afternoon ruck was windy and cold again. We didn’t get any of the anticipated snow so that’s good.