The Fatigue

I feel like my schedule right now is a complete beating.  I've been wearing a Jawbone Up since about Labor Day, and I have my "sleep" goal set at 7.5 hours per night. 

With my yoga challenge schedule that basically means every weekday is a 4:40 or 5:00 wake-up, then a workout, then a full day at work, then straight to yoga from 6:30 until 8:00, then home, dinner and to bed as quickly as possible, I'm feeling oppressively tired. 

Most nights, I'm getting about 45 minutes less sleep than usual (by usual, I mean non-yoga challenge months). 

It's catching up with me.  My eyes and face just look tired.  I feel like I would love a nap at any given moment (usually at work, it's all a-mile-a-minute, and I never stop to feel tired).  More espresso in the morning is not helping.  It's totally unprofessional, but I'm not washing my hair every day and I'm just sporting a ponytail at work sometimes.  But 15 minutes of hair washing-drying-styling is 15 more minutes at my desk or in my bed...

At least the end is in sight.  The last day of the challenge will be April 30.  May 1 is going to be a yoga-free day, with my after work hours filled with an alumni happy hour instead.  May 2 will be another yoga-free day, with my after work hours filled with a happy hour for a running buddy who moved away and will be back in town for a wedding.  And then I have a law school happy hour the following Tuesday.  Hmm... maybe my plan of deferring all events until after my yoga challenge is over means that I'm going to be sleep-deprived even after the challenge ends...

What am I doing to myself??  Haha, all good, and all my own choices, I know.  But my goal may be to get the social back-up cleared within a couple weeks and then have very limited social plans starting on about May 12. 

Then it will be sleep, glorious sleep for a week, then I think fall marathon training will begin.  Unfortunately, training for what is to-be-determined.  My rough idea was Milwaukee, but it filled up without me!