Sick Days

It's been a sick kinda week. After getting back from New Orleans with grand plans to hit the running trail hard for a scheduled 33 mile week, a nasty head cold took over and squashed that endeavor.

Wednesday was my first run after New Orleans and what started out to be my sorta long run of 9 miles turned into 5 1/4, but I still had plenty of time to get in 9, 5 and 14 on Saturday.

WRONG!

Seems my body had other ideas. I woke up Thursday feeling like crap. Stuffy nose, headache and otherwise lethargic. No running Thursday. Friday was worse, but there was too much to do at the office. What I was hoping for an early day became a late day instead. Satruday's long run was out, too, but I finally started to clear my head yesterday afternoon.

Although I'm still stuffy and have a bit of a headache, I was determined to get out or on the treadmill today. Since we had no plans for the afternoon, why waste a perfectly good morning with a run. I got out for 6 1/3 good miles this afternoon. Not bad considering I was hoping to get in just 5. Even better, the miles were non-stop, a new long for me. Although the pace was a bit slower than I had hoped for, it was good to get it in.

The marathon is just 4 weeks from today and the week to come is scheduled for 40 miles, including a 20 miler on Saturday. If all goes well, I'll slip in an extra run tomorrow, a scheduled off day, to make up some of the lost miles from last week.

Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 368 ft Location: Columbia, MD Elev. Gain: -10 ft Date: 04/06/08 Up/Downhill: [+347/-357] Time: 02:21 PM Difficulty: 2.6 / 5.0 Weather: Overcast 50 F temp; 76% humidity 50 F heat index; winds NE 15 Performance Distance: 6.36 miles Time: 1:10:55 Speed: 5.4 mph Pace: 11' 09 /mi Calories: 1202 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 10' 50 -0' 19 5.5 +0.1 +13 ft 2 11' 01 -0' 08 5.4 +0.1 -4 ft 3 11' 11 +0' 02 5.4 -0.0 -10 ft 4 11' 14 +0' 05 5.3 -0.0 +6 ft 5 11' 15 +0' 06 5.3 -0.1 -9 ft 6 11' 20 +0' 11 5.3 -0.1 -3 ft end 11' 52 +0' 43 5.0 -0.3 -3 ft Versus average of 11' 09 min/mile

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L'Chaim!