Lazy Summer Days...

Ok fine, my calendar may say it is fall, but my thermometer sure doesn't!

Yesterday I took my dogs out at 0700 and it was already 85 degrees with 90% humidity. Let me tell you how great that felt...NOT! I had planned to go for a run, but...well, I just KNEW that I couldn't do it in that kind of weather, with the addition of the sun beating down on my back. There are certain times when I can push through things(like my 5 mile run at 1200 in 96 degree weather) but this wasn't one of them.

So, I told myself, I'll run tonight when I get out of clinic, even though it's my late night at clinic. Hubby doesn't let me run at night after dark when he's home, but it just so happened that he was off at the Panthers/Senators game so I knew I would be in the clear to run at night(I always stay in lighted, very safe neighborhoods at night). However, when I got home from clinic I was EXHAUSTED. Way more exhausted than your typical after a long hard day exhausted. I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt there was no way I'd have the energy to even put my running clothes on and stretch, let alone go for a 4 mile run. So, I went to bed at 2100.

I felt so lazy, hence the title of my post . This week has been kind of a down week for me, exercise wise. I'm kind of in limbo land with fitness because I know I'm leaving next week and my workout schedule's going to change in a major way. Plus I'm fed up with all the extremely hot days and running in this weather is really getting to me. And I'm bored of all my running routes. I have a limited number of ways I can start a run(about three different directions) and I'm frankly just BORED!

I've realized something important...I need to make it a priority to get up in the morning and do my runs or my workouts before clinic because often things happen that prevent me from getting my workouts done in the evening(for example, getting invited out to do something) OR I am so tired from a rough day that I just dont' have the energy. Or I need to study or work on a project.

What can I do to make the mornings easier for me to get up and workout? Well, I can make my lunch ahead of time. I can lay out both my workout clothes and my clinic clothes. I can pre-make a morning snack. I can ask hubby to take care of the dogs for me(for the next 6 days anyway until I leave..lol).

So, of course you want to know...did I do this for this morning? Yes, I did, but I didn't get up to run. WHAT?!! I had a bad stomach ache/nausea/acid indigestion last night when I got woken up when hubby got home from the game(and I was awake for HOURS in pain). I'm not 100% certain what caused it. I have two theories. 1. the cake I ate yesterday afternoon. I don't really know why this would make me have indigestion and stomach problems but it's possible my tummy didn't like all that sugar, refined flour and butter. 2. I had dairy yesterday after 10 days of no dairy(other than a little bit of goat cheese on my wraps). I had a big ol' bowl of cottage cheese for breakfast.

So, to test this theory I had cottage cheese again for breakfast today. We'll see how I feel later today. If I have stomach issues again, then I'll unequivocally know to blame the dairy and then I"ll just cut it out of my life. If not, then I'll take last night's issue as a fluke a move on.

Can dairy problems manifest themselves 10-12 hours after consumption?