Sluggish

My run wasn't very good today. I felt very slow. My pedometer showed that I wasn't any slower or faster than usual, but for some reason it took a lot more effort than usual to keep putting one foot in front of the other. As I dragged myself around campus I wondered what could be to blame for the sluggish feeling. I came up with two culprits. First, I had a very large lunch today (at a wonderful Mexican restaurant, by the way). I'm not used to eating so much in the middle of the day and a couple of hours later when I hit the pavement I was still quite stuffed. Second, I hadn't had any caffeine before my run. Now I'm not a coffee drinker in the least and I'm not really addicted to caffeine but I like my soda so I usually have one with lunch. However, today I had a non-caffeinated drink with lunch and the lack of this insidious chemical could have been partly to blame for my less-than-energetic state. Whatever the cause, my run was marginal at best. Hopefully tomorrow's will be better.