Day 34

Today was not good at all. You probably can tell because I am posting this update at 8:30 in the evening. Normally I do my posts right after my run/walk in the mornings, but today I was pretty sick all day. My energy was low and I felt like I was carrying a fifty-pound bag on my shoulders.

I went to bed pretty late last night. It was a very long day. I hate to admit it, but I think I allowed myself to get dehydrated. The sad thing is, I did not realize until after I tried to run/walk at the track this morning. As I said, I went to bed late and then I got up early, which I do often and thought nothing of it. I let the dogs out for a while and headed to the track. I was a little late getting there and the sun was blazing. I thought nothing of that either, as I have run/walked later in the morning when the sun was fully out before and there wasn’t a problem.

I ran the first lap around and was pretty good up until about the third lap. I then got really, really tired. I tried telling myself it was the devil lying but I knew that it was more than that. I pushed myself as long as I could but then started feeling light-headed. I finished up the last lap (of course walking) and headed to my car. Can I tell you that it was the longest walk EVER in the history of all walks. I ran/walked a total of 1.5 miles this morning and I felt like I walked to Africa and back.

When I finally made it to my truck, I had to sit there for a minute with my head tilted back before I headed home. I immediately went upstairs, took a shower and got into bed. There I stayed for the better part of the day. When I finally did come back downstairs, I only did it to venture to the sofa so that I could see my puppies. I remained there until about an hour ago when I finally started to feel like myself again. I have been drinking water all day and only wanted fruit to eat. 

I really have to make sure I eat and drink properly if I’m going to get up and run/walk everyday. My diet was fine for what I did prior to run/walking but I have to remember that I am burning a lot more energy and must properly refuel or I’m going to crash like I did today. That was not a good feeling.

Well hopefully, I will be at 100% by tomorrow. If not, I will just walk the track instead of walk/run. I refuse to take the day off. I just took a day off two days ago. Besides, walking never killed anyone. Unless whilst walking, they tripped on a curb, fell and hit their head on a random rock and then got run over buy the number 42 bus because the bus driver didn’t see them lying in the street due to the fact that he was flirting with a female passenger wearing a tight red dress.

Anyway folks until tomorrow…

Ms. P.