Hypoglycemia Shmypoglycemia

The mileage is bumping up little by little. My long run for last week was seven miles. I haven't run seven consecutive miles in a long time. I decided the best thing to do was have my wife drop me off seven miles from home. As I watched her taillights grow smaller in the dusk of a small country road it dawned on me that there was no stop button for this run. I couldn't call it quits early and turn around. I was seven miles from home with a wife headed out of town. It was me and my feet.

So I started running (which would seem obvious since that is why I had her drop me off in the first place). I felt good throughout the entire run. The iPod played LCD Soundsystem's All My Friends (my favorite running song) twice. The weather was cool. The sun was setting. Everything was adding up to a great run. I made it home in just over an hour (1:05 and some change). This is where my troubles started.

Let me rewind the day so you know how I prepared for my run. Breakfast was two cups of coffee and a bowl of cheerios. Brunch was a piece of this amazing tarte tatin. Lunch was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That was my prerun energy load. No water and not much else in the scheme of having to run seven miles. When I came in the door I was hoping that dinner would be done, but it was running about an hour behind schedule. "No worries," I thought and proceeded to walk the dog, shower, do laundry and check e-mails. While I was checking e-mails the wave of nausea slammed into me. I went from feeling great and getting chores done to lying in bed nibbling triscuits and sipping water. My father-in-law (an ER Dr.) thinks I was hypoglycemic and after some research I think that could definitely be the case. So my solution to this is to eat more and eat smarter. I knew I had a long run, but the food part never really occurred to me. While I never did vomit, I did take a nice little knowledge nugget away from the experience. I need to eat better. So today I'm off to the store to pick up some margarita shotblocks (another favorite) for my long run this weekend.

Day 17 - Four miles

Total Mileage - 37.87