I’m in a very foul mood today. You see, I am PMS’ing. And I’m tapering, meaning I am not getting in my endorphin-producing workouts. And it also means that tomorrow I will be bringing an unwelcome visitor along to my race. Blah.
It’s especially bad when my monthly cycle coincides with a reduced training volume. I noticed this back in the spring. For about three months in a row, my PMS was in synch with my recovery weeks. Less workouts + PMS = Carol in a very bad mood. Which is where I am today. WAH!
Here’s one of my favorite movie quotes, from Legally Blonde…
Exercise makes endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t kill their husbands. They just don’t.
Too funny! Been there, done that, still doing that!! I’m in my 30’s so go figure!!
I read your post earlier, then just read something funny in the Ig Nobel awards on National Geographic and had to come back to share — I hope you find it funny! Apparently the same cycle applies to strippers. š
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081003-ignobel-prizes_2.html
“The prize in economics went to Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur, and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, who had discovered that lap dancers’ tip earnings rise and fall with their ovulatory cyclesāfrom an average of U.S. $70 per hour when about to ovulate to just $35 during menstruation.
Previous studies had shown that women in mid-cycle have faces and breasts that are more attractive to men, as well as a more appealing scent, Miller said.
Research also suggests that many women are happier at this time.”
Focus that anger on the run!
Thanks! You know females who live together tend to have their cycles at the same time. That is true with me and one of my teenage daughters. Oh boy, let me tell you it’s not fun!
I feel ya. I really do!