Feeling Gr8

I am feeling great again today.   I think my slump was caused by a combination of things.  Here they are, in bullet points…

• I had a mild cold, which made me feel run down
• I overdid it on the P90X stuff, as a reader named Katie suggested.  I approached that with an “I am an Ironman” attitude, and just overtrained.   I’m still very excited about that, and I will do it,  I just need to figure out how to do so without toasting myself.
• cold, crappy weather – as Kevin said, maybe it’s a bit of Seasonal Affective Depression Disorder.
• still having trouble balancing working full time with life and training.
• stressful stuff going on at home.  teenagers tend to have that affect on life.

I was seriously considering just going back to being a couch potato.  But, yesterday two things happened.

1. I was wearing a sleeveless sweater and looked in the mirror.  I saw my shoulders and arms.     I can’t do a frickin chin up, but my tri lifestyle has given my pretty buff arms.  And biking gives me awesome quads.     I don’t want to lose that.    Gosh, that sounds so narcissistic.
2. I went grocery shopping last night.  It was freezing cold outside and I had a ton of bags to carry in from the car.  I was so cold, that I ran in and out of the house a bunch of times as fast as I could, to get it over with.   I enjoyed those little sprints very much, and it reminded me that I like to run.

Last night at bedtime, I was still feeling crappy and went to bed with no plan in mind for a workout.

I woke up late this morning, scrambled to get ready for work, got a crockpot meal going.  At that point, it was 7:30am.  I really should head out the door by then.   I thought, hell, I’m just going pack some running gear just in case I feel like running at lunch.  I really need to get some endorphins and burn some calories!

I started packing things up in my gear bag.   The weather forecast was 45 with a wind chill of 35, and my best cold weather running gear was in the dirty laundry pile.   There’s just so much to remember  to bring along, and I couldn’t find this or that, and started making excuses why I should just bag the idea of a lunchtime run.  Then I decided to “man up” and just pack what I could and hope for the best.

At 1pm, I walked outside to test the air.  It was sunny and not too cold and I was stoked for a good run.  And a very good run I had.  This is what I wrote in my BT log…

Had a great run to lake crabtree from work. Finally a nice sunny day. Wiped out at the very beginning while trying to get the Pose leaning gravity thing working. Haha, got some gravity anyway.

And of course, I twitpic’d it. You know, I read once that people who tweet tend to be narcissistic. oops. Should I seek therapy?