I felt like crap on this run. I planned on going up to flag rock but 2 minutes into this run I realized that wasn't going to happen. I couldn't figure out why I was so tired. It was more than just physical tired, it was all-the-way-to-the-bone tired. I could barely talk myself into turning up the cemetery road to climb up to the firebreak. by the time I made it there I realized something was wrong and took the short cut back down. After I got home and sat on my but for a bit I decided to shower and get ready for the day. In the process of that I weighed myself and discovered that I had lost a bunch of weight over the week. That put to rest my concerns that I was maybe getting sick. I think the problem is that I ran more distance this week than I have in years, and I didn't eat accordingly. While my overall milage is just over 40 this week, one of those runs was 25 miles and most of the rest of them were 7+. I decided I should take the rest of the weekend to eat and recover before venturing out again. No reason to push it and end up hurt, or worse than that hating running. |