Couch potato zero to 10k anything physicality has to have a noticeable impact, and I am inspired. I like that even though you had multiple low times, there is still enough buffer in the year to hit the goal without having super saiyan discipline.
And yes agreed about the importance of continuing through the multiple lows! Sometimes the motivation just wasn't there but I kept plugging along and then suddenly everything came together.
To me it seems a lot of healthy people end up not needing discipline because they find healthy things they enjoy and want to do.
Like I wondered if someone copying this would be better off targeting 1000 air squats instead. But maybe that’s not as “cool” and wouldn’t have brought as much intrinsic motivation.
As someone with horrible back pain issues after a very intense block of training for a 1/2 marathon at the beginning of this year, I do hope you'll reconsider that first part of the quote above, since it's probably one of the causes of the latter. Took me a while to internalize the "run slow to run fast", but it does make a huge difference for injury prevention.
Do you have any concerns that you're only doing push movements? My physiotherapist told me that it's quite easy to build imbalanced muscles by excessively doing only push ups, without incorporating "pull" movements in my exercises too. It seems like you would've come across this in your research but don't think it's an issue seeing as you seem very healthy and happy with your current shape?