Check out my face. This is what you look like when you haven't run for 2+ weeks and you decide to go smack-dab in the middle of a hot & humid day.
So, can your muscles and your body be ready to run, but just be out of energy? That is what I felt like today. Like I had the strength to keep going, but not enough gas in the tank. I have not run in over 2 weeks. Not since the last time I posted. What has happened in between is basically a bit of an illness morphing into laziness. I got used to being tired.
Apparently I brought back a souvenir from Costa Rica that I am not entirely happy with. Turns out I had a bacterial issue. I felt the weirdest I have ever felt. Hot and cold, stomach felt tight, swollen, gross, but not nauseous. In fact it hit me like a ton of bricks the same night as my last post. I ended up in urgent care, got antibiotics, and then after I saw my own doctor, he recommended probiotics and said it would probably take a good couple of weeks before this really went away. And reallly it IS taking that long. The terrible feeling only lasted for that day and part of the next, but I there are lingering side effects. Basically I cannot eat very much at once, but I can eat normal foods that I always do, and I am hungry more often (due to not eating much at once, obviously.) Good news is that I am down 8 lbs. Yay. Bad news is that if I overdo it with food I FEEL it. Not yay. Soooo...this is a long way of explaining that until now I have been able to do most things I am used to. But I have not quite felt up to running until now.
Today I felt like this is it. Time to get going again. I had a lazy morning (up late the night before - kids were at grandma's!), and by noon I had the urge to just get out there and GO. It is was a bit cooler than it has been, with a touch of a breeze. So I laced up and went. Starting out I was fine, it was not so hard as last time - I didn't feel like I was dragging a huge weight behind me. But about 2/3 through my run I just ran out of energy. My body, my muscles, all felt fine - totally capable of continuing. But I had NO energy. No gas in the tank. (As I explained above I can't eat a lot at once. I had a yogurt for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. I left to run about 30 minutes after eating the sandwich.) I ended up running, then walking for a minute or so, then running again. I tried to run as much as I could.
The long and short of it is that excuses are over. Time to get back on track. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I will be out there, pounding the pavement, or asphalt, or gravel, or whatever. Moving. Getting back to where I was. Yes, I will have to build back up my endurance. But I did it before and I can do it again. I was able to do 2.6 miles comfortably. That is only .5 away from the 3.1/5k. I can get there. I WILL get there.
Oddly enough, even though I had zero energy left, I still felt that elation you feel when you finish. And I am thankful for that. That is what will get me out the door come Wednesday morning.
So, can your muscles and your body be ready to run, but just be out of energy? That is what I felt like today. Like I had the strength to keep going, but not enough gas in the tank. I have not run in over 2 weeks. Not since the last time I posted. What has happened in between is basically a bit of an illness morphing into laziness. I got used to being tired.
Apparently I brought back a souvenir from Costa Rica that I am not entirely happy with. Turns out I had a bacterial issue. I felt the weirdest I have ever felt. Hot and cold, stomach felt tight, swollen, gross, but not nauseous. In fact it hit me like a ton of bricks the same night as my last post. I ended up in urgent care, got antibiotics, and then after I saw my own doctor, he recommended probiotics and said it would probably take a good couple of weeks before this really went away. And reallly it IS taking that long. The terrible feeling only lasted for that day and part of the next, but I there are lingering side effects. Basically I cannot eat very much at once, but I can eat normal foods that I always do, and I am hungry more often (due to not eating much at once, obviously.) Good news is that I am down 8 lbs. Yay. Bad news is that if I overdo it with food I FEEL it. Not yay. Soooo...this is a long way of explaining that until now I have been able to do most things I am used to. But I have not quite felt up to running until now.
Today I felt like this is it. Time to get going again. I had a lazy morning (up late the night before - kids were at grandma's!), and by noon I had the urge to just get out there and GO. It is was a bit cooler than it has been, with a touch of a breeze. So I laced up and went. Starting out I was fine, it was not so hard as last time - I didn't feel like I was dragging a huge weight behind me. But about 2/3 through my run I just ran out of energy. My body, my muscles, all felt fine - totally capable of continuing. But I had NO energy. No gas in the tank. (As I explained above I can't eat a lot at once. I had a yogurt for breakfast and a sandwich for lunch. I left to run about 30 minutes after eating the sandwich.) I ended up running, then walking for a minute or so, then running again. I tried to run as much as I could.
The long and short of it is that excuses are over. Time to get back on track. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I will be out there, pounding the pavement, or asphalt, or gravel, or whatever. Moving. Getting back to where I was. Yes, I will have to build back up my endurance. But I did it before and I can do it again. I was able to do 2.6 miles comfortably. That is only .5 away from the 3.1/5k. I can get there. I WILL get there.
Oddly enough, even though I had zero energy left, I still felt that elation you feel when you finish. And I am thankful for that. That is what will get me out the door come Wednesday morning.
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