That has got me motivated. My blood is pumping. If you can read my post above you can see my updates pretty much step by step.
So, my logs below. Just some comments.
I origionally forgot after 3.25 what I was doing. And then I remembered at 4.46. So basically I went on from there. But something bugged me the whole time I was doing this. I wanted to complete it in under 2 hours. So I knew I needed to do 40 more. No big deal right?
Anyway, I thought that would be easy, but then I had to go and eat dinner and it took half an hour. On the good side I had a rest. But really I felt fine even before that.
But at 6.20 when I did my pushups to reach 400 it started hurting. Like a bum. I literally spent about a minute doing the set. All the way to 500 was a struggle. Then I hit 500 with only a few minutes until the 2 hour mark hit. SO I told myself to pump out 40 more. So I added them to my log, but didn't click submit. And I opened up the clock on my computer. I managed to do 15, collapsed then did 5 over 30 seconds. Then I had 2 mins left. I had a minute break, did 10, then I literally felt dead. But I told myself to do more.
I had 30 seconds left and 5 more to do, so I dug in deep. I got to 539, and my arms and chest literally gave in. with 15 seconds left I punched out one more, and then thought "lets do 1 more. just one more". The first attempt left me on the floor. Then in the last second I managed to do one.
Jesus that has got me motivated. I can now feel sweat dripping down my face. From the last 40 pushups. It's never felt so good. It's not the fact I did 500 in 2 hours. Im sure Chillen could. But with the meal times, and my commitment only coming in the last second I learnt that you can make a difference, if you don't break mentally, even right at the end.
*note to self*
total may be 551. I think i miscounted in one of my earlier sets. But that takes the last 5 second story out of it
15.25 1x40 not counted
16.46 1x60
(60)
16.47 1x20
(80)
16.54 1x30
(110)
16.58 1x30
(140)
16.59 1x20
(160)
17.05 1x40
(200) on fists
17.12 1x20
(220)
17.30 1x40
(260) on fists
17.38 1x30
(290)
18.20 1x40
(330)
18.23 1x30
(360)
18.28 1x20
(380)
18.38 1x20
(400)
18.40 1x30
(430)
18.41 1x30
(460)
18.44 1x20
(480)
18.45 1x21
(501)
Total: 501
Total time taken: 1 hour 59 mins
Great test.
Edit
Tomorrow I am planning on doing it in under 1.30. Or attempting because I feel cheated by that meal time and the fact I had to load the dishwasher. We have some pretty heavy plates
