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August 25, 2005
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It's official. I'm in significantly worse condition today than I was over a year ago, despite, or perhaps partially because of, my training.
This was for the old 14 km run out to the bridge and back. I held back a little going out, but not much. It took about 31 minutes. That was so distraughtening, it took me about 2 km to recover emotionally enough to stop my thoughts of giving up completely and walking back to work. The trick that worked for me in the end was mentally to dissociate myself from running, and think about something even more irritating.
That helped me get back to pushing it. I was looking for that feeling I used to have of being tightly focused holding a fast pace all the way back. It felt very rough today. I couldn't remember having worked that hard, but I guess I did. Now I'm running like a jogger.
A kilometer away from work, I bonked. A few hundred meters later I looked at my watch, which said my heart was still pumping away at 178 bpm, although I seemed to be moving like a dehydrated snail with a sprained back.
This "workout" completely deflated me. I stood under a cold shower for 5 minutes in an attempt to recover, but I still haven't come back to normal. Either I'm coming down with something like mononucleosis, or I'm overtraining.
Posted by Mark at August 25, 2005 08:46 PM