DUMB Running Mistakes I Make

It's not often that I feel true 'pain' when I run. It's usually soreness or nagging aches that I can work through and then I feel better and I finish the run stronger. Today was not that kind of day.

I had a decent breakfast, had some coffee, had water. About an hour later I put the toddler in the jogger and off we went. Each mile got progressively slower and I felt more and more tired. Eventually (around mile 3) I started to feel some sharp shooting quick pains in my right glute, a little higher than the sit bone. Alternating tightness, then quick pain. DUMMY me "worked through it" and kept going further away from home instead of toward home.

By the time I finished the run 4 miles later, my right glute is throbbing and my body is spent. I think, (and you can say 'duh' after this) that I completely and totally underestimated the kind of toll that running Boston, then an all-out 10K three weeks later, then the Ohlone 50K a week after that, then a 5K 2 weeks after that can do to my body. I don't usually run races close together like that, especially after a goal marathon.

What the hell was I thinking?

I'm feeling negative and wiped out. Just PHYSICALLY wiped out. What was that blog I had a few days ago? The mind is willing but the old body is weak. Yea, it's feelin' weak.