Mel On...Hill Repeats (and being really, really tired)

So...after the other day's "Training Update (and reaching my 750th mile this year)," I thought I had my training plan down (yet again) but then I decide I should throw in some hill repeat sessions once a week.  I really need to stop thinking...

...cause a 40 ft. increase in a tenth of a mile is about ridiculous....

It doesn't look like much of a hill but I promise half-way up that sucker your opinion changes very quickly.

 

There I was at the bottom thinking of how 30 minutes prior I was dressed up in heels in a warm auditorium watching my son's Christmas program and how I was now in the cold, sweating on my third repeat and how I wished my house was not at the TOP of the hill because now I had to run up it again....and basically rethinking every life decision I have ever made...

(It was nice having the family rooting for me out the window though,  
I needed all encouragement I could get!)

Let me tell you, it wore me out.  Then again, I feel like I have been in a constant state of "worn out" for about 2 months now.  A couple weeks before the marathon I was feeling really, really tired/exhausted.  I thought maybe I was just overtraining.  Then, I got sick and thought the feeling was in combination with that.  Then, I run the marathon and am EXHAUSTED the first week or so afterwards (go figure, I just ran 26.2 miles).  But, I really thought the feeling would have gone away by now and it hasn't.  

It's like I am exhausted ALL THE TIME.  From the moment I wake up I feel tired (not muscle tired but body tired, if that makes any sense??).  I get dizzy when I stand up and most of the time I feel like I can pass out at any second.  Probably not a good thing to have go on for so long (and it's really affecting my ability to finish a long run) so I finally made an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow.

And, NO, I am not pregnant.  Let's just get that out there.

Now, I am off to ice my feet and lay on the couch because I am tired and I can.  Take that laundry.