After a couple of months of running most days, I reached that amazing fitness level where I’m beginning run with relative ease again. I celebrated by buying myself a pair of fancy sport headphones. Hopefully I’ll be able to tackle a 10k again by the end of the year. Also, it’s fucking cold outside all of a sudden. What the hell.
No probably not, except inasmuch as hallucinations are a known side effect of exhaustion.
Children for example are known to not have much/any (people who actually know shit step in and select right answer) but aren’t constantly tripping balls.
My understanding of how stuff like hallucinations normally happen is the brain can be though to be a series of networks doing their own thing and relaying information between each other. Some networks try to pattern match: “I just heard something, my name is often a heard thing shaped approximately like this. This is my name!” and others filter the results of these matches for truthiness by synthesis with a bunch of crap: “we’re in the middle of a highway. who the fuck is going to be calling out our name? you misheard the radio”.
those other networks for reasons I don’t know are vulnerable to disruption. Like when we’re tired, or taking psychedelics, or have a brain tumour or whatever.
I mix running and cycling 7 days a week, 30-45 min each day. I do strength 4-6 days a week, 15-30 min each day moving between upper body, lower body, core, body weight, etc. The strength schedule dictates what I do for cardio, for example I’ll typically target a run and legs the same day knowing the next 1-2 days I’ll need to bike to recover my legs.
I always do cardio first, no reason why, just started doing it that way and it’s been working for me so I’m not inclined to change it.
The only exception is I’ll try and do a boot camp style workout 1-2x a week for 45-60 minutes which mixes my strength and cardio.
A fortnight ago I was doing about 60-80km/wk, but then I pushed a bit too hard at the end of a long run and strained a toe. Should be back up to 60 in a couple of weeks again though!
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