I am behind on my blog posting. Last week I reached a point where the FMC were not feeling right. Having taken them for five months I seemed to have reached a fitness optima for me. So I took the last week off from the capsules and have had a fantastic week. Not sure how long I can hold the gains but it feels like whatever I have restored has "taken" and adding more is not resulting in any noticeable gains in inflammation, metabolic performance, food cravings or anxiety reduction.

I ran just a tick under 70 miles last week which is enormous increase from where I was five months ago. This was my last nine mile run from this week. At the end of a long mileage week I knocked out my fastest 15K in a more than a decade (maybe more I don't have any training records past my early twenties and middle-age me is not as fast as twenty-something me).

My inflammation looks really good. I feel good and plan to see how long I can keep improving with just diet and lifestyle. My plan is to run as much as my body will let me and work on getting the last of the sugar and caffeine out of my diet. If I feel any increase in anxiety or notice my old injuries starting to return I will add the capsules back in, but for now I am just going to see how things go. The last time I did this I made it two weeks before I started slipping back (this summer at Mt. Whitney). Hopefully, this will last longer this time.