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so the bad day continues...

May 2, 2011 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: humid, cloudy, 77

Comments:
i don't know how to deal with all this stress!
usually running helps relieve stress, but i think it just made me too worn out to do any hw by the time i got home...creating yet more stress...and it wasn't till after the work-out that i even realized i'd forgotten to take my meds...

so today the work-out was 3x300 with PLENTY of recovery. altho i had a bad day, thought i could still pull off this work-out...well i thought wrong...
none of the 300s were terrible, just not what's gunna better my 800 time (but i know i don't have to let one work-out affect me). my first one i got out fairly strong. my second i had a good finish (started to turn it on). my last one was the best: got out strong, but faded, but still kept it up ok.
i was way more exhausted than usual after each one. can't believe i actually needed all that recovery time! i just didn't feel light today. and it didn't help that my insides felt like they were gunna explode and my lungs felt so tight. why am i still having lung problems so late in the season?! i don't even have allergies anymore.
i suddenly realized that we were late (and i had to get to the temple) so tried to get back quickly...only, i couldn't. the fastest jog i could manage was so slow! and then came a whole new wave of pain. i can't remember feeling pain quite like that since, well, i can't remember (worse than even that one day back earlier in the season). as my insides got even worse, my shoulders were just screaming! i guess it makes sense, as my shoulders are where most of my stress tends to go to. and then my ears plugged again (third time in the past 5 days!). but this time it wan't due to the weather. first my left shoulder muscle tugged and tugged painfully, and that's when my left ear plugged. as i tried to unplug it, my right shoulder muscle began tugging painfully and before i knew it both ears were plugged. and then came the migraine. and my temples hurt so amazingly bad (felt like a build up of pressure). as i tried to focus on getting up the hill, i got a... asthma attack? whatever it was, lets just say breathing wasn't coming easily (and then the wheezing etc). so i walked the next block until my breathing steading and cautiously finished the the jog back. i couldn't believe i had to walk back from au! its the end of the season!
then, i had go to temple...was so tired, and all i wanted to was collapse and go to bed. or better yet, take an 8 hour car-ride (i love car-rides, not to mention motion puts me to sleep).
tiger balm certainly helped relieve my shoulders, but had to put a lot on...not even a hot bubble bath did the trick. i have no idea how i'm finishing all my work tonight. probably gunna be an all-nighter.
goal for the week: pull myself together by thursday.

(on a good note, happy to see natalie back out running)