Tired tired tired

The second run of week three is done and it was a tough one. Yesterday's three miles was okay. Steady and not too tiring. I'd say my rate of perceived exertion is still around four out of ten. That's about right to tally with the book. Today was a different story. My legs felt heavy and tired from the get go and that was hard because I knew it was four mikes today. It was hard to remember to say "but it doesn't matter " after thinking, "here comes that steep bit and my legs are so tired!" But I managed it anyway. It took fifty-three minutes, but I got there.

I thought the GPS on my watch was buggered up when it didn't tell me my time after the first kilometer. It beeped after thirteen minutes. Well, I'm slow, but seriously! So I thought the GPS was running wrong. It wasn't till the second alert that I realized it was running in miles rather than km. Somehow it has reset, which makes sense because the key tones came back again too and I had to get rid of them. Phew! I'd hate to have had to return it. It's no good to me without the GPS. That's what I bought it for.

I wonder if my tiredness was related to my dinner last night. Unexpectedly,  I went out after work to an Indian restaurant and I ate white rice, which I'm not used to these days. I will be eating brown and wild rice when I start to increase my carbs. Maybe the rice sapped me in some way because it's quite processed. Or perhaps the chicken jalfrezi? Though it was quite light and tomato based. Food for thought. I will definitely need to experiment with food long before the actual marathon. I'd hate to eat the wrong thing and have a crapper than necessary run that day.