Tired

The last two weeks of training have really kicked my ass, and this week, it really caught up with me.  A sixteen miler followed by a half marathon five days later hit me harder than I thought, and this week I have been l-a-m-e at training.  My knee has been playing me up a little bit so I’m guzzling the glucosamine, and one of my toes seems to have committed to a long and rotten battle with my trainers, so there has been a bit more recovery than running this week. 

Last night I got home full of intentions to sneak in a six mile loop and although I can usually “trick” myself into training – head home, get changed into kit and head out the door almost before my inner Gollum (“NO RUNNING EVER AGAIN HOBBIT!”) has kicked in – but I was utterly shattered last night.  My husband came home to find me half asleep on the sofa in my work clothes with the cat at 7pm.  Rock on.  So there’s been little to report.  There was a 4.5 mile uber-run on Wednesday night – we were heading to the theatre at 7pm so I decided it was entirely reasonable to get my run in (9.5 minute miles which presumably didn’t help the overall fatigue), get showered and changed, and get to the theatre (almost) on time.  Unfortunately, I didn’t really factor in dinner.  Oh, I gulped a bottle of chocolate milk and a bottle of water, but there was no real food.  On returning home at 11.30pm, I inhaled a left-over blueberry pancake and then passed out.  Not such a wise move.  I spent all of yesterday feeling like I was underwater and got such a head rush when I headed out at lunchtime that I had to sit down.  Fool.  So, valuable (but fairly obvious…) lesson learned: running = needing to refuel. 

Looking towards the weekend, I’m either planning a five miler tonight (probably not going to happen) or tomorrow morning (more likely) before spending all day doing wedding things with a recently engaged friend and friends, and then a l-o-n-g run on Sunday.  I’m not sure how long (there’s a small part of me whispering *17 miles or more*) but either way, my longest pre-marathon run is scheduled for the weekend of 10/11th March so I know it won’t be 20 miles.  Yet.  Excited?  Maybes….as long as I can shut the inner Gollum up for long enough….