Set-to-tember

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

My New Running Coach, Kierkegaard... and a little bit of Eeyore.
 
It was Kierkegaard, apparently, who said that success comes from starting over and over again in order to break new ground. The Soviet leader, V. I. Lenin expanded on this idea when he said that to conquer an unclimbable mountain you need periodic strategic retreats down the mountain in order to better reassess a successful approach to the summit.
 
I am, therefore, on such a strategic retreat and should take heart from knowing that, according to those supreme athletes Kierkegaard and Lenin,  even with my current stop/start (but mostly 'stop') state of training I am still on the road to success. However, this would be somewhat delusional. My recent long break from running would be called a winter layoff by some, but it has rather extended well into spring and already encompassed (and thereby eliminated any chance of entering) the main races I had planned and trained for earlier in the year.
 
The truth is that shift work has really exhausted me, and I am very, very tired nearly all of the time these days. The best way to cope with the continuously changing and cyclic nature of the shifts is of course by drinking myself into oblivion each night through general fitness and especially running, but being too exhausted most of the time to even think about it, my running shoes lay undisturbed and the training log grows at the pace of an elderly arthritic snail. And so my inertia becomes ever more difficult to overcome. Pathetic, isn't it?
 
Somehow I'll find a way to get back to a fair level of running fitness again, but thus far it's in mere fits and starts with no great signs of roaring into life. It's a bit of 'meh' situation, but I'll work through it - I owe it to myself!

Eeyore  MLCMM.