It all started on Tuesday. I was planning my run for the morning but woke up, checked the weather and it was pouring and it didn't seem it's gonna slow down even a bit until like the afternoon. So I went back to bed. To be woken up at 5:30 by Mike that he hit a pothole and his car is f*cked. So I had to go and pick him up and drop him at work, go back home and try to figure out how and where to tow his vehicle. I thought I had Canadian Tire Roadside Assistance but when I called them they said there was a problem with a payment or whatever and that I have to call back when the supervisors/managers are there. So fast forward 2 hours, I checked my email and found the conformation and also checked my bank statements where it also said I paid. It took them almost an hour to get it all fixed and finally dispatch a tow truck. Only to be told by the cops that they already called a tow truck and gonna impound the car if I don't show up there in like 5mins. OMG! Can this get any worse really... anyway. Got it figure it out. Now, to my run, in the afternoon. I was so tired. And I had to do 3mins intervals. Like whyyy. I felt terrible and run those slower than my 5mins intervals couple of weeks ago, disappointed.
I had to drop Mike at work again so couldn't do my run in the morning either. Had stuff to do after work so didn't get out until very very late. Had an hour of easy run but it didn't feel easy at all. It was warm and humid. I'm not enjoying this at all...
Another day, another afternoon run. And in like 30degree weather. Lucky me! So sick of everything. Really hating everything right now. And to top it all of, the weather looks absolutely horrible for the weekend. Pouring rain again. So there is absolutely nothing to look forward to.
I forgot to stop at Strides this week and buy my nutrition. So had to take everything I had at home, all those gels and drinks that I don't really wanna use. But had no other choice. We came pretty late from our anniversary dinner yesterday and I had nothing prepared for today. I had really hard time waking up and got up fairly late. Started getting things ready. Prairie repeats were the plan for today. Couldn't come up with anything else, the weather didn't look good anywhere. I wasn't excited at all. I actually didn't even wanna go and that's probably the first time. I'm always quite excited about my mountain runs even if they are just something stupid and boring. But not today. It was raining on my way out. And very misty when I got there. My stomach was not happy today, again. Surprise. The first way up felt like my third one. It was terrible and I was SO slow. How am I even gonna do another one, let alone two maybe 3 more?! There is no way...it was stupid. Light on your feet...more like mad on my feet. I was pissed and I was seriously thinking if today is the day where I should just say F*ck it and just leave and go home. Don't push it if it feels like this. I was so not into it. Even the way down felt bad. It doesn't always get worse. I was just dragging my feet. No bounce. But with more people on the trail I for whatever reason started to feel better and told myself that I have to do at least two rounds cause otherwise what's the point of even going there. I had hard time eating anything. It doesn't always get worse. The second way up felt bit better. I was getting some extra energy from the other people on the trail I guess. I was still slow but feeling better. Way down was definitely more enjoyable. And after I ran into some familiar faces, I knew I'm gonna go for the 3rd loop. At first I felt good but it went away very soon. I was underfueled but when I tried to eat a gel, it didn't go down at all, I had to force myself and almost threw up few times, it was awful. So the third one was on fumes. I was quite happy when I reached the summit again. I felt like I could do another one if I had proper nutrition. Which is a shame cause it seemed I could've shaved off at least an hour from my previous quad attempt. I was bit tempted to go for one more but my stomach started to hurt again thanks to Naak (I'm for sure not using their drink mix ever again). I pushed hard enough today tho and 3 reps are good. Better than the one...quite satisfied with how it all turned out. It doesn't always get worse.
Recovery shuffle was scheduled only for 45mins. But I thought I should do bit more cause I haven't run as much and I felt like I need to do more. It felt terrible the first 1-2K. Legs sore AF. But I took it really really easy and managed to squeeze out over an hour from myself and I felt like I could even run for bit more, so that was kinda nice.
63.8K / 9:39 TOF
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