Elixir to stay awake- coffee

The past 2 days have been a daze for me.

 

Work is seriously piling up and the stress levels have affected me to the point that I not only feel exhausted mentally, but physically.  My run yesterday evening perfectly illustrated that. 

 

I planned to leave the office on the dot yesterday but was given some last minute work at about 4:00pm that required completion. 

 

I only managed to leave the office at 730pm and started my run at 745pm.  My legs felt stiff from the hours under the air con.  I started my run at KLCC park feeling tired, and hoped that by the 3^rd round or so I would feel better, but I didn’t.  I started out at 6:35 per lap, but as the laps progressed my times worsened, to the point of 7:05 per lap.  Nonetheless I plodded on and managed to complete 8 laps.

 

Breakfast this morning was with Jamie- over our Chapattis, we groaned about how little sleep we were getting because of where we stay- him at Puchong and me at Subang.  I am pretty tired from lack of sleep.  Every weekday that I wake up (at 6:10am), I always feel I could do with at least 2 extra hours of sleep.  I’m not a Steve Prefontaine or Dean Karnazes, both of whom are elite runners who reputedly survive(d) on 5 hours of sleep or less.   As I’m typing this, I feel so sleepy- I think my head might just hit the keyboard anytime soon.  Reading Azwar’s blog, I can deduce that he can survive on little sleep.  He is sometimes blogging in the wee hours of the morning and still manages to go for an early morning run.  Dunno how he does that.

 

My running in the weeks after NB 15k has reduced.  Generally, I run about 70k a week.

 

Lunch was with Jamie and Newton.  But such was the stress levels this morning that I was left wondering where on earth the morning went.  It certainly didn't drrraaaaag by.

 

The sun and heat are absolutely ferocious.  Won’t be heading to track today, but will be at KLCC park.  It will be an oven today.