In all my infinite wisdom I decided to skip lunch so I could make some prints in photography. I was really exited to see how my film came out and get it on paper. Turns out my last 3 or so pictures totally didn't make it and many others had gnarly brown chemical marks- maybe 40% of them are actually useable.
But that's not the important part. Seven miles or so (I mapped this out) in the heat at a "get back into shape right now dammit" pace on an empty stomach is a bad idea. Tack on core afterwards and the fact that I was probably a bit dehydrated to make it even worse.
I'm pretty sure my blood sugar just took a nosedive and couldn't keep up with the exertion I was putting on my body- I remember my barely being able to keep my eyes open for a few minutes, then waking up 2.5 hours later. I ate roughly One Metric Shitload of food afterwards and feel much better now.
All things considered it's good I at least eat breakfast or I swear I might have passed out on the run. Some of you reading this have probably run on an empty stomach before, but it was just the perfect storm: no lunch+long+hot+dehydrated+core+fast pace= lights out.
Moral of the story: Your body needs energy to run and it will be Bad if you don't have that energy.
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