Fatigue

[Crankin]

Glad you are making progress with the fatigue. I get over training symptoms very easily, so you don't have to be "hard core" to have it.
And Aggie A., I never want to go back to the southwest. Living in the inside of an oven for 16 years was tiresome. I love the change of seasons and everything that goes with it. Endless summer is not all it's cracked up to be!

[firenze11]

Ok, thanks again everyone. I feel like less of a doofus knowing a lower volume can cause overtraining symptoms. I think maybe I am feeling something along the lines of overtraining. I had my last swim class of the semester today, which really bums me out, and I only have 2 more full weeks of spin. I think I'm going to skip it tomorrow and try to go the next two weeks, but take a day or two off if I'm feeling wonky.

Jobob - I did have a physical in August and everything is a-ok. I always go to the doctor in the winter thinking I'm anemic so she always does a full panel on the usual fatigue-causing stuff and I come out fine. That's what made me think of mild SAD this year, actually. . .when I started to wonder if I was becoming anemic.

Oakleaf - I think I'll check my protein out. I know I've built a lot of muscle in my legs the last few months (my legs feel really different, I don't think they've ever been so solid feeling) and I've been craving meat lately. It's hard to get protein when I'm at school, but I'll be more conscious about it. I think this might help quite a bit.

And thanks Crankin! Being out in the sun helps a lot and I feel better, I'm going to try and keep it up (at least until the snow comes!) What region of the SW did you live in? The thing I actually miss most about Albuquerque is the awesome weather. It still has the change of the seasons (even snow sometimes!), but it's milder and sunnier. I'm not sure how I'd take perpetual summer, I say I'd like it but I do love watching the leaves change and the crispness of fall.

And, I've written a book again I must be avoiding work. Thanks again.

[Crankin]

Firenze, I lived in Tempe, which does not have the seasons that ABQ has. The winter was fine, but it still got dark early, so being outside didn't happen much for me. No wonder I became a gym rat! Well, when my 3 and 5 year old ran into the shrub bed in front of my house and said, "We're in the forest," I said enough!
I do miss the smell of pinon in the winter... and of course, my friends.

[Jolt]

Ugh. Sounds like I'm not the only one feeling like crud lately. This semester has been the absolute pits--school is crazy, I have to get up at 3:30 am two days a week to travel to my clinical, I'm working part-time evenings at a nursing home (which is NOT a good fit for me), I started off the semester with a nasty case of IT band syndrome which I am in PT for and is fortunately getting better (though I've also been having other issues--tightness in peroneal muscles, foot pain which I just figured out is from a major knot in my calf muscle--boy does one thing lead to another!) and I just never feel like I'm caught up on my work or on sleep so the upshot of all this is that I have had no energy for the past couple of months which is not like me AT ALL. After talking with my advisor, I think I'm going to switch to part-time school (finish next spring instead of this spring because of when some of the classes are offered), get a better nursing job to get some better experience rather than having all I do be passing out pills and dealing with demented patients' behavoir problems, and hopefully that will help. Now if I could just get back to running, hiking and even feeling like walking as much as I normally do... Starting to wonder if I will ever feel like my real self again it's been so long. Sorry for the whine-fest but I am just frustrated!