Believe to Achieve

Long drive home alone listening to Conference then ENYA.  Not good for lactic acid build-up.  Had a lot of time to think of how I should have picked up the pace the last mile.   C'est la vie.

Soreness improving with movement.  Odd, I wasn't even very sore after the marathon (except for blistered feet) but it hit Sunday morning but only half as bad as last year.  Good sign :D.  No running for a few more days.  Experiencing some intense nausea and facial numbness/burning.  I think I am experiencing some adrenal fatigue.

No appetite.  Facial numbness/burning intense- like an immune reaction.  Went to orthodontist.  The facial numbness has been worsening since the bottom wire of my braces was changed out 6 weeks ago.  It is made of different metal than the last one (nickel, titanium and copper).  Dr. Remington (regular Dr., not ortho) ran a heavy metal test on me last year before my braces and nickel and copper were already high in my system then.  Yikes.  He ran the test due to my intense reaction to perfumes/cleaners.  Six weeks ago was when I noticed a marked change in my sleeping patterns and mood from how bad my pattern was from night shift to begin with.  I have a nurse friend at work who said that when she was a teenager with braces she had to stop going to school due to chronic fatigue symptoms.  Her Dr. noticed a pattern between three of his patients with Chronic Fatigue--- they all had braces.  He advised her to get them taken off.  She did and got better after a few weeks.  Weird.  When I was 14 I had braces for 6 months but got so literally sick of them I ripped them off.  Looking back I was also very depressive, not sleeping then.  Weird.  The answer ?  Endure the last of the 12 months (3 months to go :D), because I am hanging on for dear life to deal with it already.  It is just another Marathon in life.  I feel like ripping them off.  Luckily they just realized they were putting on the latex elastics and changed them back to nonlatex clear elastics.  I questioned the Dr.'s assistant twice on two different change-outs whether they were latex-free because they looked different then the first ones they put on me.  Little did I know I was adding to my chronic fatigue problem with latex in my mouth.  I kept getting sores but thought it was from all my long runs with a dry mouth.  If it gets much worse I may have to go on an immune suppressant.  Off to visit Dr. Remington again to see how I can build up my immune system and any further testing.  He will probably roll his eyes over me having braces.  

Missing running.  Ran an easy two mile loop from home with Troy.  Hamstrings tight otherwise no soreness.  Rode mountain bike on same two mile loop after wards. Felt better on legs.  Pace easy 10:04 first mile, 9:33 second mile.  Bike took 12 minutes.  Nice cool weather.  Work tonight and tomorrow night. 

Slept only three and a half hours today then another 90 minutes before helping kids with piano/homework.  Zombie-like until 10pm when I got a second wind.  Babies are just too cute to hang around with : DDDDD  Picked up a shift for a coworker for 4-6 hours Friday night so that is three in a row.  Sleep is overrated,,,, not!!!

Post night shift shake out cobwebs run in the afternoon--finally cool then.  Ran easy for 3.8.   Off to work for another 4 to 6 hours. 

PM  just got back from work at midnight.  Worked 6 hours for coworker.  Nighty night  ahhhhh. 

Ended up staying at work until 1145pm.  Got to sleep at 115am.  Too cold to run at 7am.  Lately I am ALWAYS cold.  So I waited until 8:40 for the sun to be out for my run. Ran an easy uphill (well the uphill is actually quite steep, but I felt great) run (1100 North) to the canal and over to the Farm Rd as I call it and down to my house.  Right hamstring/hip tight (from taking all the work when I avoided my huge left foot blister at SGM).  Just tried not to overstride, took quick short strides to not stress the muscle.  Otherwise felt great. First mile 9:04.  Last mile 7:44.  Really, really really tired 6 hours later, having cheered my daughters on in their three soccer games today.  Talk about adrenaline depletion.  I get in to soccer games quite a bit.  Who knew?  Getting back to the night shift schedule thing.    Hoping Dr. Remington will have some remedies to help me sleep normally and to get rid of  these allergies to chemicals and this endless  chronic fatigue.  Appt. is Wednesday.    Sleep = Recovery.  Off to take a nap before the BYU football game.