Only 10 miles for me today. We are going to Fort Worth later this afternoon to run the marathon on Sunday.

Shawn, that sounds like and incredible run, I am so jealous!

I fell apart big time on my run today. This week I have been totally exhausted. On Wed there was a really pathetic moment where I was in my office and thirsty. A liter of water was within arms reach but I was so tired I honestly couldn't get myself to move my arm to get the water. And I sat there thinking "I'm so thirsty. But I'm so tired. But I'm so thirsty." Yesterday I took a 2 hour nap then slept for 10 hours. I think my peak running weekend plus Halloween plus submitting a major manuscript and leading a three hour graduate seminar this week totally took it out of me. My goal was to run 5 today but I ran 2, walking at least a half a mile. No energy. I actually contemplated sitting on the sidewalk for a bit around mile 1.5 and only didn't because it was really cold out. Thankfully I'm working from home today so I want to get some neuroscience done and then hopefully I can rest the rest of the day. I hope everyone has better runs than I did!

Rest today.  I am driving over to the western part of the state for my daughter's last High School Cross Country meet (State Championship).  I am starting to get sad realizing she is close to being done with high school and off to college.  She is ranked 3rd, I just hope she runs up to her potential.  Both boys and girls teams are ranked 3rd also.  My son is the teams 4th or 5th runner.  Hope everyone has a great week-end, sorry for venting above.

Kat, I'm going to sound like your mom, but will you please, please look after yourself.  That means - take a break from exercising, maybe a day or two, sleep a lot, eat really really really healthy, sleep some more, read a trashy book, sit on your couch and have a good glass of wine.  I think after a day or two of this you should be back to your normal self.  You can't drive yourself this hard without running yourself down.  Remember H1N1, your immune system will weaken with your going this hard.

Thanks guys. I am so on the same page. I can feel myself on the verve of crashing so I'm trying to take care of myself. Ben made me chicken soup from scratch two nights ago- this recipe is amazing and it takes HOURS- because I told him how beat to he!! I was a few days ago. He is a saint, my best friend, and knows me way better than I know myself. I'm about to hit happy hour but the plan is to make it an early night. I'm supposed to run 14 with my friend tomorrow and I'm going to tell him that I'm going to bag it early if I'm not feeling it. I just hate being so close to JFK and blowing my taper after so many months of training.

Late post, for some reason my computer at home isn't letting me post anything on the board.  Ran 4 miles for first run since the marathon. Felt good to be back out on the road. Between recovering from the marathon and recovering from illness life sucked for a couple of weeks there.