Week Sixteen: Random Aches

"I've got this pain in my side and it HURTS. Hurts to get up. Hurts to sit down. Hurts to be sitting down. And I'm tired of laying down, too. Boy, am I scroobed." Adrith

"I hurt all over my top. My bottom parts are fine, but my top aches." Cat/Astrophe

"Argh, argh, argh! Still in pain, in random spots that make me afraid to get anywhere near the treadmill. I've gone two days without hurting in my back-right side, which is GREAT, but now my KNEE is starting to do some flaky spasming." Adrith

We sound like creaky, broken people! Our schedule has slowly built us up to longer and more intense sessions over the last four months and we're definitely feeling it. Thoughts of aches and pains crowd our heads.

We're also thinking about our water and food needs though.

"And here's the odd thing too -- even though I haven't run in a week, the scale was down yet ANOTHER notch this morning, to 238. I can't imagine that my metabolism is still on its rocking running high; I know I'm not eating as much, thanks to the heat, but I'm wondering how much that has to do with calorie intake and how much it has to do with inadequate hydration. Let's face it -- I'm parched. Which reminds me, I gotta go refill the water bottle." Adrith

"Updated my Dietwatch stuff. 2 L water yesterday plus some juice, going for 3 L today, no juice. All "green" days this month so far, so I'm hanging in there and trying my best to stick with it." Cat/Asatrophe

We're on the upswing again -- heading into the home stretch for the first schedule!

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