You haven’t seen many Fit-to-Fat-to-Fit blogs lately. Want to know why? I haven’t been exercising. Nope. Been sleeping until 5:15 instead of getting up at 4:15 a.m. to run. I’ve been in the middle of a big book push and working past midnight every night.
I’ve run twice since my 17-mile long run two weeks ago.
My legs felt like sponges when I started out. My heart rate was 10 beats per minute higher the whole run. I had lost fitness. It’s amazing, but I was steadily losing all the great side effects you get from running. Why does it take a year to get into shape and a few minutes to lose it? Ugh.
I ran 11.25 miles today. My legs are tired and the rest of me isn’t far behind. But I did it. I’ll run tomorrow morning and then the next day. I have a five-mile race on Thursday and I’ll have fun running it. And I’ll get back into the shape I was in a couple of weeks ago pretty quickly.
I have new goals and will be pushing myself harder again the next few months. So maybe taking a few days off won’t be the worst thing to ever happen to me.
And the good news is that I did not gain a pound. My nightmare of going back to the Fat me didn’t come true.