[Gromiaaborn]

To keep things fair, I must post that I had the WORST run this morning. I don't know if it was the cold, or the hills, or low energy, or all of the above. I just moved this past July, so I'm not that familiar with all the neighborhoods around my house yet. On north side, there's a main road with absolutely no shoulder and no sidewalks. On the south side, there's a real hilly neighborhood which I ran this morning. It felt more like a hike than a run (I walked about 2/3rds of the entire run, it was that hilly). On the west side, it's fairly flat, but it's all really narrow streets in a bad neighborhood. On the east side is a river, but not with a path to run along, and I'd have to run on a hilly road with no shoulder to get there. Excuses, Excuses! I know

Yesterday I ate just under 20g of carbs. I didn't eat anything before my run this morning. I did have the carbs on Saturday, plus more on Sunday. I think there were probably enough carbs in my system from the weekend that I should have had plenty of energy stored up. Does anyone know how long it takes for the carbs in your system to burn up? I thought it was 2-3 days, which is why the Atkins Flu happens on day 2-4 of Induction. There's too many factors at play here as to why I had a bad run. I'll just keep experimenting until I find out the perfect combination!