Distance: 22 miles
Time: 2 hours 49 minutes
Comments: I woke up this morning with every intention of putting in the 18-mile long run and it quickly became apparent that was not gonna happen. I was feeling completely exhausted and my desire to undertake the substantial effort was undercut by that.
I ended up going back to bed for an hour and woke up feeling just as tired. Throughout the day I was completely zapped and an afternoon nap did little to resolve it. Although I really wanted to get back on track mileage-wise, it just didn't make sense to push through this since the only logical reason for it would have to be overtraining.
So it turns into another sub-par week and a slab of meaty anxiety for my ability to be properly prepared for this race. Ugh.
Two months to go and I'm not sure if I am going to be at all ready. My training efforts over the past two weeks have been much less than I could hope and there is only two months left until the start of the race itself.
Moreover I kind of seem to have lost my enthusiasm for the race right now. I have been working toward this for more than ten months and there is little substantive to show for it. The race seems impossibly distant timewise and uncomfortably close in terms of training time. Part of me really feels like giving up on it.
And the pile of work that I have to do before the holidays gets into full swing is overwhelming me as well. So that has dinged my focus as well.
It isn't like I don't want to go put in the runs, I'm just busy with everything else and it often seems a much lesser priority than before. Dunno if that's overtraining or what but I really need to get over it or this qualifying time goal may become nigh impossible.