I'm so tired, I'm Kokoda tired.

[luckycanuck]

Today my neck hasn't given me much grief aside from a little tweaking feeling at the base of my head when I turn my head too far or too fast.

But I have been tired.  Oh man have I been tired.

I've not felt this way in two years.  Two years back I hiked the Kokoda Track.  It was 120-130km of going up and down mountains in the jungles of Papua New Guinea which we did in nine days with up to 20kg of gear on our backs.  Plenty of things were a struggle, but at no time was I tired.

When we arrived in Kokoda, the fatigue kicked in.

I wrote this in my diary (I'll send you the link if you like):

I find myself far more tired than I was at any stop before, even when I'd had a very tough day.  It's as though the need to keep moving keeps you from feeling too run down.  Once your work is done there is no need for your body to maintain itself in a heightened state of readiness, and my body seems to have figured out that it will not be called upon to trek tomorrow.  If I had to go back by foot I'm entirely confident that I could do so, and that I would still have some adrenaline left in my system.  As it is, I need a nap for the first time ever on this trip.

Tomorrow I have no job to go to.  It's not as though I've been working to the point of exhaustion, but for a long time I've had somewhere to go and something to do every Monday morning.  Now that I have no work to keep me ready for anything, I am just exhausted.  I went to the shops today and picked up a few things, but other than that I did nothing but lie around the house and constantly feel tired.

After Kokoda I also got sick.  I wonder if the same thing will happen over the next few days.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe it's from finishing the job? I'd say take it easy for a few days, but I have a hard time picturing you on a lawn chair or a beach somewhere, relaxing. :)

Heather

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

Yeah I don't really do "relaxing". Not in the conventional ways. If my neck wasn't giving me any grief I would go and flip some tyres at the local gym.

This shouldn't last too long.

[yurusumaji.livejournal.com]

A sedentary lifestyle does definitely tend to bring on a bit of a "cool down" period for the body. When I was a housewife who sat at home all day I needed 10-12 hours of sleep to feel rested. Now that I work constantly and am always moving around, I make it on 6-8 hours of sleep a night.

I don't think you will get sick. After Kokoda you dropped from constant adrenaline to a flatline. This is likely why your body went ill, kind of like dropping steroids instead of weaning off of them.

[luckycanuck.livejournal.com]

Sickness isn't happening, and the fatigue wasn't as bad yesterday.