The journey to find a pocket of contentedness - Realizing I am experiencing burn out.
It has been 8 days since I recognized that I was exhibiting the physical and mental signs of burnout. As I look back now it is clear it has been building. I haven’t been sleeping well, I haven’t been able to focus, I have had minimal to no ability to take action on anything I need to do other than go through the motions. I think the impending winter and shorter days kicked it to a new level and so I found myself in this place less than 2 weeks after the time change, mourning the loss of that extra hour of daylight. Another catalyst was two runs in a row with hamstring pain. I have been dealing with hamstring pain in some way since July. I just kept going. After my race I sought out PT and have been going since early October. And I was mostly running pain free. But two runs in a row with pain resulted in me in tears of frustration at my inability to do this thing I “needed” to do. When I told my PT about this, and mentioned a lot of stress at work, she said our stress shows ...