Bad move, jeans.

Well, it's been two months. Two months since I was attached to multiple wires in the ICU of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, and all things considered, I've had an almost miraculous recovery. I have some difficultly walking, but only rarely does it really interfere with whatever I am doing. I still get headaches, but they are less severe and shorter in duration all the time. I have felt pretty good in the last week, so I thought that I had more than enough energy to go to a "Total Body Workout" class at my gym just down the street.

Bad move, jeans.

Ten minutes into the class my legs started to feel incredibly weak - and not in the "wow this is a great workout" way of feeling week. I've run 20 mile training runs before - I know the "tired" feeling from the "holy crap stop right now before this gets too bad" feeling. This was most definitely not a good feeling. My head felt odd - not really a headache, but something was off. I put away my mat and dumbbells in the middle of the class and quietly slipped out the back.

I picked up an all natural orange and mango juice at the store adjacent to the gym (one of those fancy schmancy all organic and natural 3 dollar single serving juice drinks...) and ate a banana quickly - and I feel some better, but I'm staying in my room for the next few hours. I'll eat some soup and some veggies soon, and I'm keeping my natural sugar levels up with grapes and apples as best as I can. That was a bad move - I'm obviously not ready for rigorous exercise. I'll stick to my leisurely 30 minute stationary bike rides for now.

It's so frustrating. Four months ago, I was running upwards of 40 miles a week. A simple 45 minute workout would have been nothing. Absolutely nothing. And while I've made amazing progress in my recovery thus far, I hate that I've lost massive amounts of muscle and I seem to still need extra hours of sleep at night. I suppose I can't really do anything but keep giving my body good food, letting it sleep as much as it needs to, and taking it easy on the gym side of things.

I suppose I'll get there eventually....