This might work after all
Sep. 14th, 2014 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21So, today I walked 4 miles to make sure I could actually walk 4 miles since I'm registered for a 4 mile race next Sunday. My original goals have gone all out the window, because my lungs decided this would be an excellent year to stop functioning at the level at which they have functioned for the past, oh, I don't know, 6-7 years? As of last week, I wasn't even sure I could manage to do the race at all. Today, I'm pretty sure I'm just scared and being scared isn't a reason not to do things (there's a difference between "scared" and "panicked". Panic is a good reason not to do something. But if I accepted scared as a reason, I'd only get out of bed about two days a week, because I'm a fundamentally anxious person).
In other words, yes, I can actually walk 4 miles. In about an hour and twenty-five minutes and I'm pretty sure it would have been closer to 1:15 if I hadn't totally bonked around mile 3.5. As in, had to stop and strip a layer and give myself a pep talk to trudge the last half mile to the car because I ran out of sufficient levels of blood glucose to keep going at the pace I had been going at (I wasn't dizzy, so not actually in a crisis. It was more that I was overwhelmingly hungry and ran out of energy. I also didn't have much of an option but to keep going, because the car was a half mile away and that's where my protein bar was. I can't eat that while actively walking because my stomach will pitch a fit). I'd eaten before I'd left the house- I had a bowl of cereal before going to church and then a banana and yogurt before going to the park. But I started to get hungry around mile 2.5, which means I need to have either eaten something more before getting started and/or that the water bottle needs to have Gatorade and not water in it (for the sugar). I'm thinking peanut butter crackers before race time- it has to be something without a lot of fiber, because fiber + walking quickly usually equals my needing a restroom in short order. Crackers should fit the bill.
I did crash out hard late this afternoon, but I don't feel bad now. Not even sore, which I figured I would be. I'm not going to work out this week- I usually don't when I have a race- so even if I'm sore tomorrow, I'll be fine by Sunday.
In other words, yes, I can actually walk 4 miles. In about an hour and twenty-five minutes and I'm pretty sure it would have been closer to 1:15 if I hadn't totally bonked around mile 3.5. As in, had to stop and strip a layer and give myself a pep talk to trudge the last half mile to the car because I ran out of sufficient levels of blood glucose to keep going at the pace I had been going at (I wasn't dizzy, so not actually in a crisis. It was more that I was overwhelmingly hungry and ran out of energy. I also didn't have much of an option but to keep going, because the car was a half mile away and that's where my protein bar was. I can't eat that while actively walking because my stomach will pitch a fit). I'd eaten before I'd left the house- I had a bowl of cereal before going to church and then a banana and yogurt before going to the park. But I started to get hungry around mile 2.5, which means I need to have either eaten something more before getting started and/or that the water bottle needs to have Gatorade and not water in it (for the sugar). I'm thinking peanut butter crackers before race time- it has to be something without a lot of fiber, because fiber + walking quickly usually equals my needing a restroom in short order. Crackers should fit the bill.
I did crash out hard late this afternoon, but I don't feel bad now. Not even sore, which I figured I would be. I'm not going to work out this week- I usually don't when I have a race- so even if I'm sore tomorrow, I'll be fine by Sunday.