Gloomy day?

I started to write a "gloomy day" post about how my sunglasses haven't come out of their case in almost two weeks. (It's amazing how much of a difference sunlight makes in my energy level. I should never try to live in Alaska in December...)

Yellowstone Lake on a cloudy morning (2010).

And it's mid-semester. The 12-hour teaching days are finally taking their toll...

Plus it's taper-week, which usually makes me a little crazy anyway...

How Peanut gets to spend the day. / How I want to spend the day!

But I figured that was all just going to sound whiny.
Because it IS whiny.

"Wah! I'm tired!"

So I poured a second cup of coffee and started re-writing:

• Cloudy days mean cooler weather for running.
• 12-hour days mean I have a job (two, actually - and most days I enjoy both of them).
• Taper week means my body gets to rebuild for the race. I should embrace this, instead of being bummed that I miss a 2-fer Tuesday. At this point, no additional training will make my 13.1 any better, but I sure as hell can screw it up royally if I try to run like it's not a race week.

So I'm going out for a walk.
Maybe some sunlight is filtering through the fog...

How do you deal with low energy days?