River King moored on the Severn

Life has been quite crazy lately. Weeks back I acquired a pretty bad cold type illness. It knocked me out pretty good and put a stop to training for a week. Nearly 30 days later I still have a slight sniffle and cough. Initially after the 7 days I began running again but just building back up to normal as one does. Then the kids were off school for a week, so as I built back up my time then was limited which was annoying. Finally as soon as the kids went back to school my daughter then went into hospital for testing for her epilepsy for five days, a good thing but very stressful. 

Post flood riverside path in Worcester

Now here I am with a slight sniff and cough attempting to shake off the crazy stress from the hospital attempting to get back on track with training for the Arc of Attrition. But I’m consumed by an odd overall exhaustion. I tried a long run Monday, and was psyched to have the time again, but after a few miles I stopped and walked it in. Just exhausted. The effects of life stress have wiped me out. I’m sleeping well, eating well, things are positive around the house, but it continues to linger. I really want to get back to consistent training! 

Showing off my new test shoes: 361 Lynx

I’m writing this from the airport. I’m flying to Glasgow and tomorrow driving my mother in law and her husband back to Worcestershire as they are moving. Easy 6 hours of driving probably, no big deal. Maybe the downtime of flight travel with help me relax and a shake this exhausted feeling.

Fast forward to returning from Scotland. House moves are never fun. Travel there was alright, trains, plane, taxi, and train all flowed smoothly but did take nearly 6 hours. I slept ok. Then the move commenced. Despite having two hired movers it took from 8am until 7pm. From 7 until 8pm we cleaned, fortunately it wasn’t too bad! From about 830 until 430 am we drove. Yes. It took 8 hours! Of course we stopped a couple times but we also had two highway closures with diversions. Also some pretty dense fog. Traffic flowed and was basically big trucks. But that was one hell of a long day.

Colby running with me

I slept for two hours until the kids woke me, I doubt I’d have slept in anyway, and my day was on. I did have the day off to see my son’s primary school cross country race, but it was still a miserable day. I was hoping for 10 miles, but now, I’m pretty sure it will be zero running today. 

It was fun trucking around watching cross country. It’s through the school PE programs they have this inter school meet. I believe the top 7 go on to the next higher bracket. 

Grades 5 and 6, boys and girls cross country 

Colby

He had fun. I’m not sure he’s truly an endurance kid, which is just fine, you don’t need to be fast to enjoy it!