dice and rollerblading

[indigo_rose99]

When I was a kid, we played a dice game called Zilch.  In a Zilch turn you try to make as many points as possible.  You keep building up points until... either you stop or a roll with no points makes you lose it all.  Luck helps in winning but ultimately the key is knowing when to stop. 

Today I applied that knowledge to rollerblading.

I have been managing my fear of downhills pretty well.  The fear-adrenaline rushes are less frequent.  I am up to 9-12 miles every Saturday. 

But today...  I found myself phasing out about mile 5.  The world did not quite narrow to a pinpoint (one of the warnings of fainting), but I found that I was spending every bit of my mental energy staying upright and aware of my location.  I felt draggingly tired, thirsty and almost dizzy.  The world felt... Unreal.  Distant. 

I cut my losses at the next chance.  Gave T the water and told him to go on without me.  Better to sit down now than wake up bloody somewhere on the track.  As I type this, I am putting my head between my knees every few minutes.

I still feel like a loser at Zilch. "I could have done 6 more laps..." 

Later note:  We think it was low blood pressure, brought on by my old nemesis: dehydration.  

Comments

[pamwheatfree.livejournal.com]

It might also be a vitamin deficiency brought on by exercise. Sometimes I feel really washed out but it usually turns out to be lack of red meat in my diet or lack of green vegetables. Sometimes it is hard to remember that everything has to make it into your diet sometime in a four day period.