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Brutal long run

February 4, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: nearly 60, overcasty

Comments:
BRUTAL long run, but "good training".

Worked 7-1 today; SICK. Lifted in the AM and was really tired after that, so I grabbed a coffee (a bad habit developing...)

The "idea" was to run 3-hours today -- just go "shuffle" and put in some foot-time, but from the get-go I felt terrible. Did the first segment with Jeff, so I took him on the Hendricks climb. Felt crappy 'til we started climbing up Birch St; then I felt good -- and really that was the only time. Bombing down to campus I felt like crap and stayed that way. Took some Clif Bloks at UO (and even got Jeff to take 2), then cruised back to the office.

The idea was to drop off Jeff then keep going, but I felt so crappy I decided to bag it at only 10 miles. It took maybe 3min back at the office to decide I needed to get back out there; and "practice feeling like shit". And felt like shit I did!

I tacked on the flat, easy PRE Loop but felt a new level of awfulness -- fatigue + dizzy/lightheaded, even though I'd been fueling and reasonably salting(?). I dissolved an E-Cap into my Powerade bottle, but it wasn't til I took a 100mg caffeine Clif Shot did I snap out of it and get coherent. Even still, I felt awful all the way back.

Wound up being about 16 miles (maybe 17) in 2 hours. It was an awful run but it was good practice to spend some time in that "shitty zone" and do some things, nutritionally, to snap out of it and persist.

I was legitimately sick the rest of the day, so I went home and basically slept the rest of the night.