Check-in & January mileage challenge

[blnchflr]

If you're not participating in the January mileage challenge, you are still very much encouraged to check in :)

January mileage challenge - post updated mileage in the comments:

cadenzamuse: 20 miles. Status: 5.1 mile = 25.5 %
ell: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %
gnomad: ??? miles. Status: 15.1 miles = ??? %
ilanarama: 200 miles. Status: 133 miles = 66,5 %
nanila: 20 km. Status: 4 km = 20 %
semielliptical: 40 miles. Status: 26 miles = 65 %
silveraspen: 40 miles. Status: 13.5 miles = 33.6 %
blnchflr: 50 km. Status: 46.4 km = 92.7 %
temve: 100 miles. Status: 71 miles = 71 %

Comments

[gnomad]

Only ran once last week (4 miles) as it was a recovery week. That was probably for the best as I spent most of the week exhausted.

[ilanarama]

Oof. What were you exhausted from?

[gnomad]

It's unclear. My hope is that the exhaustion is merely from the 3 previous weeks of training & coming back from a *ahem* slightly extended off season. At the beginning of December I was basically doing nothing but running short, short runs (like, easy aimless 30 minute jogs) 2-3 days a week and being a slug. Then, starting on the 23rd, I bounced right back into swim/bike/run/yoga for 5.5-6 hours a week and growing.

I also have a theory that it's nutrition related. Starting training again always gives me nutritional whiplash and it takes me a few weeks to figure out how not to accidentally starve myself. It doesn't matter how many times I've come back to training and have had to change how it eat. It catches me by surprise every. single. time. And every single time I have to remember to eat ALL of the Hobbit meals and not just second breakfast.

[blnchflr]

I have a day off tomorrow, which means I get to have SECOND BREAKFAST \o/ (I can't quite bring myself to eat second breakfast in front of my colleagues, so it only happens when I'm home).

My silliness aside, I hope your recovery week has done you good!