I might be sick
No pun or double meaning, I really think I might be ill. I’ve been very fatigued for many days. More tired and more sore, generally, than I’ve ever remembered myself being. Totally bonked again during a relatively short run. No injuries, not much more stress than normal. Just something is sucking all my energy away from me. I think I’m eating enough (although I was just able to do my first food diary entry in days, and I did eat more today than I have been). Definitely been drinking enough water. So I’m starting to think I might have come down with something. It doesn’t help that I’ve been getting eaten alive by mosquitoes the last few nights.
I finally have real internet today. Well, it’s the mifi device I have been using in Italy. I keep getting apartments without internet, next time I need to find a place to live it’ll be at the top of my list. So I’m sorting out the last few little things, hopefully. I’m glad I got into town early enough to iron out some of the finer points. Even though it created a few extra problems. But that’s the thing, it’s give and take.
Meanwhile, the world needs America to knock it off with the conman, fascist Drumpf. Clinton needs to wipe the floor with him in the commercialized advertising events, I mean debates. They’re not real debates anymore. Which is both good and bad I suppose. Also, America, could you stop shooting unarmed peoples please. While some people will say stupid things like, “more white people get killed by police” the fact is, proportional to how much of the population each group makes up, you are much more likely to be unarmed and murdered by police the darker your skin gets. This is irrefutable fact. Knock it off. Speaking of guns, it seems less people own more guns now, and about 50% of all guns are owner by about 3% of the US population. To that 3% of the population, I think you need help. I’m sorry, but that sounds like a sickness. What’s wrong with you?
My absentee ballot came this week though, and I will mail it back by the end of the week. The only other thing I have to sort is my running shoes. It seems New Balance has discontinued my model in Europe is what it comes down to. I can stay with the same shoe, if I want to pay for the shoe, plus the shipping, plus the import tax. Making it twice as expensive. Of course, I should have just got a new pair when I was back in the States for the Summer and brought them back with me that way. But the other models New Balance (I use them exclusively) suggests are lighter, have a lower drop and are still rated highly for overpronators. The irony in it is, one of the models the 860v6 is already being replaced in the US by the 860v7! They make this more difficult than it needs to be I think. So I have lots to think about on the shoe front. My first pair of NB was actually a 1080v4 I think, v4 or v3. Then I switched to the 940v2 when I started using my running club’s shoe store. I don’t even know how many pairs of the 940s I’ve been through. It’s been a few years, and about 3 pairs of shoes a year, so maybe 9? 10? It’s been a lot.
I worry about things like this, because of my severe overpronation and the amount of miles I do. I don’t want to have to deal with injury and such. Although, there will surely be some discomfort with any shoe change. The big problem is that my current pair should be out of useful miles by mid-October. I will, of course, stretch that until the end of October; but still. At this point, I’m hoping the fatigue goes away and I’m all better by then. Tomorrow morning I will get up and go out for another few miles and see how it goes. I may shorten my weekend runs and see if that helps next week. I’m doing well so far this month on goals and mileage. Not that I have any definite goals. But I am going to see if I can manage 1500 miles again this year, since a sub 20 5k is not going to happen. I don’t even have anymore 5ks on the schedule, in fact only one more definite race, the Puglia Marathon.
Have fun, keep running, and remember; if Gil can run then so can you!
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