So this is what I’m thinking I’ve been wrestling with of late: Burnout. I’ve had acting work, a couple of vacations, apartment reorganization, general semantics boxes representing endless hours of work, extreme summer heat, and life going on. It’s been so much that I simply got burned out with all of the goal achievement. Yesterday was part of regrouping, and so was today. Instead of going more than 8 miles, I decided that it’s burnout that I need to guard against, so I did one loop. I’m happy. It was 78 and it felt a bit more humid than I realized (about 53%), and I did the loop in 46:25. That’s 7:18s. I wonder what my pace would be if it were cooler or less humid. Here are today’s deets:
Since yesterday’s long run, I felt the expected bodily tiredness getting out of bed this morning but it was nothing daunting. I had pasta for dinner last night (“homemade”), in hopes of helping with my glycogen stores. I also ate generally better yesterday, and I hope to do the same today. I took ArginMax before bed last night, and this morning I had ArginMax again with quercetin. Chocolate milk was my post-run drink, plus Gatorade and coconut water. Eggs and a bagel for breakfast.
I want to get better. I must stay focused throughout my day.