I'm finally wearing out

BIKE: abt 35 miles in 2hrs
RUN: 9.6 miles in 1.5 hrs

I woke up to dark skies and red-yellow-green masses on the weather radar. This caused some schedule reworking--ride indoors? Ride later, run now? Do both later? Knowing how tired I get at the end of the day, I chose the longer workout first--ride indoors, run later. Ride indoors, I couldnt' believe it.

2 hours of indoors, ugh, but it wasn't all bad. I did 3x20 mins at HR of 125-130 and felt surprisingly great afterwards. I got to thinking that a 2hr indoors ride just wasn't much of a workout--no hills or wind to get the HR really up. But, I was wrong there. I drank only 1 water bottle in that 2 hours, and I didn't drink much right away afterwards. So a few hours later, after breakfast and shower and at work, I was dehydrated. And I've been struggling to drink enough at the new job. The water bottle is kept down the hall and I don't go to it much.

So by the time the run rolled around at 5:30 or so, I was still dehydrated. I was almost dreading the run knowing it was going to be a struggle. This time I was right, but it got better about 4 miles in. I had a gel and the fuelbelt of cytomax, just barely enough to get through this run. I left work, spun around FP, then ran home. Early after starting the run, I wanted to walk a bit, but wouldn't let myself do it. Especially after I passed another club member (who was walking) and was passed by a coworked on the way home (who was biking) I realized that if I walked I would be seen. What a motivator. So I didn't walk much at all, just at the 1hr mark.

I was dripping lots of water, my clothes was soggy and I felt like I just got out of a shower. By the time I reached home, I could feel the effect of dehydration. Fuzzy thinking, tight/crampy legs, dry mouth. I set to drinking lots of water with cytomax, frozen fruit bars, and an orange. I kept at it the rest of the night with lemon ice water. At 9pm, I realized I hadn't peed since I came home around 7! More water, finally overnight I seemed to catch up. But I know better, I need to work on this more now, and keep this in mind for the next 7 weeks. Dehydration has got to be the stupidist thing to mess up right now!