Aww, I hear you! I don't know if my situation is exactly the same, but I'm having at least a similar issue. When I started exercising, I was walking like 2.5 to 3.5 miles at a time at a brisk pace. Then my fitness level just seemed to snowball so that I kept adding intensity, either in terms of milage or speed or hills or sprinting. And then after adding something in or making it longer or whatever, it would feel like it still wasn't enough pretty soon after. But I cannot exercise like 2 hours a day. I've got other commitments.
So, I've been having a particularly hard time this summer since kids are out of school fitting in my 2 hours workouts and I've been doing less of them and shorter ones. I try to make my shorter workouts as intense as possible, though. And then a couple of days this week I did have time for a longer workout and I ended up doing 20 miles over two days and now I've got some pain in my big toes from the overuse, I think. Ugh. But the workout itself felt sooooo good. Like, I just felt like my body was needing that. I had been hoping that having worked out less over last six weeks or so would reel things in so I didn't need as much.
Well, okay, so this isn't what you're talking about at all. lol But I'm frustrated bc I just cannot have everything revolving around exercise! And I do feel you about both needing to do less and fearing getting lazier. I was really afraid that this six weeks would never end and I would just do less and less till I wasn't doing it at all and then it'd be impossible to get back to it.
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