This morning I felt an exhaustion flow through my body that I haven’t felt in a while – it is probably just the iron levels that have dropped to below some acceptable level again. I stood up from my chair at work earlier and my legs felt heavy without me trying to pick them up. At first I thought it was just that I had sat down for too long, but then I felt a dull pain spreading from my feet up into my quads. It only left me once I sat down again … which leads me to ask whether I have actually done too much exercise in the past couple of weeks and need a break from it?
Then I thought again and realised that it was probably just a lack of sleep – I only got to bed around midnight last night and was up again this morning just after six. Andy nudged me at about 6h35 and in return got whapped with Buttons (one of the 101 Dalmation stuffed toys) … he just chuckled as I tried to get some measure of sleepiness out of my body and some life into my thoughts. A cup of coffee would have done me good.
The reason he woke me up was that we were going to go for a run this morning, but … I just wouldn’t have made it past the street in front of our house. I desperately needed that extra hour or two of sleep that I usually manage to get in when I go to bed at normal times.
So this afternoon we’ll try again – I’ll arrive home and he’ll probably ask me when we’re going to run to which I will HAVE to answer “Now.†, or it just won’t be a run.
I’m looking forward to it, don’t get me wrong. After a hard day at work though, the only thing I crave is the couch. Running makes me energetic and I think that’s what my brain fears the most. That it will get out of the state of couch-potato and actually WANT to go to the gym after the run and relax in the pool for a few lengths before hitting the sauna for a good 20-minute sweat.
So it shall be….
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