Exercise and tiredness

Looking back on the past seven days I’ve been to the gym twice, jogging three times, swimming once, circuit exercises three times, cycling once, and push ups before bed. It’s possibly a bit too much, though I do enjoy getting out, and much of this is now habit/routine. One worrying thing though is that my jogging performance, particularly at weekends when I try to go a bit farther, is seemingly getting worst. The fact is that I keep stopping for walks.

This is worrying, and I’m trying to work out the issue. It could point to an underlying injury, illness or exhaustion, but I don’t think that’s the case. I get inordinate amounts of sleep, don’t feel twinges, and don’t feel that tired once I’ve immediately recovered from the sport.

It could be that I’m too heavy – that probably is true, though I’m not really much heavier than when I arrived or when I ran the marathon.

I put more store by the fact that it’s incredibly humid at the moment. I come back from runs totally soaked. So even when I walk for sections, I feel like I’ve had a good work out when I get back. My running performance has always felt poor back in Abidjan, where humidity is even higher, while in England I often feel comfortable going for miles because of the cool weather which means you’re sometimes not even sweating.

A fourth possibility though, and the one that worries me the most, is that I’m losing a mental game, and giving up, creating neural pathways to stop running whenever I feel like it, because I’ve done this before. Have I just made it acceptable to give up?

In six months I plan to run a triathlon. I tell myself that’s the last great sporting thing I’ll ever do, so maybe after I’ll really reign the exercise in.

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