Day 60 - Wrecked!

I don’t know what came over me today, but I was completely wrecked, both physically and mentally! I spent the whole day with the worst brain fog, I could barely focus on anything, and I drifted aimlessly from one task to the next. Unfortunately, this coincided with my busiest day of the week, work-wise. I need to upload my chemistry lectures, screencasts and homework before 10am on Tuesdays and, of course, I always leave all of the work to do on Mondays! Some Mondays, I’m like a briar, trying to get it all done, and Peter knows to steer well-clear! Thankfully, today, I managed to get everything done without too much stress, despite my inability to concentrate!

At one point during the day, I also had a massive sugar low and I was feeling light-headed and dizzy. I tried eating fruit to combat it, but it was only when Peter told me to eat one of his massive chocolate bars that I started feeling better! I wonder what caused all of this? Fiona tells me she was feeling similarly wrecked today. I reckon we’re physically tired from the huge amount of running training we’ve been doing, and this is on top of the mental strain caused by the pandemic. I guess it all takes its toll, even without you realising.

At 12pm, I took a bit of time to do a live Yoga flow class through Fiona’s work account. Fiona did it too. It was good to do some gentle stretching, especially given that today is a rest day on my training plan and I’m not doing any running.

After I uploaded all my lessons to our college website, at around 6pm, I went upstairs and did a bit of cleaning. Then, I face planted on my bed for about an hour because I wasn’t physically or mentally able for anything else! Peter arrived up eventually, saying “I thought I might find you here!” He’s very good when I’m in this kind of state! He put rice on for me, then the two of us had dinner and watched a bit of TV. Needless to say, I was in bed by about 10pm!

I wonder what will happen next week, in terms of lifting restrictions. In one way, I’m enjoying having all this time at home. The roads are empty, so I can often run right down the middle of them, to give myself lots of space. Also, when I need to drive right into the city centre to collect my prescription from the pharmacy, it only takes about five minutes and I get parked right outside the door. News is coming through, from other places in Europe, like Germany, that the spread of the virus has started increasing, now that they’ve started lifting restrictions. They’re a little bit ahead of us, so it’s like a view on the future for us.

Another Crusaders virtual challenge starts this week. I was on the winning team in the virtual relay challenge last week. It was lots of fun, especially the team element. The social aspect is nice too, getting to know people in the club that I’d never have spoken to before. Initially I thought we might be doing these virtual challenges for a month or so, but it now looks like they’ll be continuing for a few months before we can get back to training! I hope everyone doesn’t get injured in that time, because lots of people ran their timed mile last week completely downhill, to shave a few seconds off. The downhill running is getting a bit out of hand in the group!Weiterlesen