Time to bring myself back into the RunningBlog community! I was going to go back and fill in the miles from track season and summer running, but instead I'm just going to start over today.
Life has changed a ton over the last few months! My track season had a disappointing ending when, out of nowhere, my mile times slowed down by at least twenty seconds. I was constantly tired and dizzy. I figured it was just burn out and tried to push through it. Finally, Region came and after a horrible mile race, I tried to come back and do well in the two mile but ended up fainting with a lap and a half to go. This led to a series of blood tests. At first, we found that I was low on iron as well as quite a few other essential vitamins and minerals. The plan was that I take a month off of running and take some supplements. When none of this helped, I was given another series of blood tests and on top of the anemia we found a combination of different blood glucose problems. Things still aren't completely sure, but the official diagnosis for now is a mixture of Hypoglycemia and Pre-Diabetes.
This, along with many other discoveries, events, promptings, and gut-feelings led me to decide not to run in college. It's not that I was quitting because I was realizing that it would be hard and that I'd have to be very specific in my new lifestyle to be able to run so much and keep my health in check. It's just that this whole experience finally humbled me enough to listen to my gut that had been warning me for months that running for Dixie State wasn't right for me. I won't go through all the emotions that came with this decision since I posted all about it on www.freshman19.blogspot.com, but I will say that it was unbelievably hard for me since I knew that I could be successful on the team and that it was something I had dreamed of since I was a child.
After deciding not to run, I realized that there really wasn't a whole lot for me at Dixie State and after a lot of pondering, I decided to go to SUU. I ran with the high school team all summer and had a blast. Now, I'm up here in Cedar and really liking it. Until today, I've only been running 3 to 4 miles a day since I got here last Thursday. But with the soft rain and great weather today, I decided to go a little longer and hit 6 miles. 9:31/mile. Nice and slow, but extremely enjoyable. Even though I'm not going to run on a college team, I know that I will always love running and will hopefully have a lot of success in road races, Summer Games, etc! | 