Week 7 Day 1....this is what defeat feels like

W7D1 was absolutely horrible.

I just want to let you all know before hand, I will be sharing way too much info about myself and nature here, so if you don't want to know, you should probably go ahead and stop reading now.

Yesterday's run was the perfect storm of horrible. Let me lay it all out for you. Friday evening I ate at Macaroni Grill, Saturday I had Arby's and Logan's, and yesterday there was a potluck after church, and I didn't make it to the gym til around 5. Oh and the part where I share too much, Aunt Flo came to town Saturday.

There is only one word I can conjure to describe how I felt during/after yesterday's run: MISERABLE.

I really didn't think I was going to make it. It was a struggle to put one foot in front of the other. I did up my speed a little like I told myself I was going to do. I maintained 4.6 mph the whole time for a total of 2.49 miles. That does include my warm up and cool down distance, so really I'm only running about 2 miles. But still, that's better than no miles.

And here's the part where I expand on the TMI from earlier....So, the 5k is October 5. Aunt Flo flew in on Sept 7. Do the math y'all, that's 28 days. I don't think there are enough words in the English language to describe how sad that makes me. I get SO tired the first few days of my period. Tired, bloated, and whiney. Those are my 3 main symptoms. So last night when I got home from the gym, I did not pass Go, I did not collect $200, I went straight to couch jail. When I walked to the kitchen to fix myself a bowl of cereal for dinner, my legs felt like they weighed 1,000 lbs each. After I downed the cereal, I didn't move until I went to bed. It was awful.

I did get up crazy early and go to the gym again this morning though. Proud of me, even if I was 10 min late getting there. I did ok until I got to work. I'm pretty sure I could take a nap at my desk this morning and not even feel bad about it. I'm just hoping my energy level is back up tomorrow. I've got training to do. I can't let this stop me from kicking some 5k bootay.

So anyway, I'm going to speculate that the rest of this week is going to be miserable, so pray for me y'all. I'm going to NEED it something fierce.

I feel like my dog today:

Anyway. Until next time.....!