Woke up with a sore throat and a bad bloody nose, but it went away after a while, my throat still is having problems, so with the workout today my throat started getting in the way of my breathing and so mt lungs weren't getting enough oxygen, but when I tried coughing the mucous out of my throat, I lost even more oxygen and had to keep breathing through the mucous, so as a result, the more I tried to clear it up, the worse it got. I ran 6 400s of the 8-10 I was supposed to do and then didn't finish the 7th. I nailed my splits up to the 6th one, 70, 68, 66, 65, 65, they were starting to get unusually hard, I'd been feeling quite a bit worse than usual since the start but at that point it was feeling really bad, on the 6th I really started having some problems, I ran the lap perfect until I slowed before the line so it ended up being 67 or 68 even though I'd been on 66 or 65 pace the whole lap. I had started having a lot of trouble on the last couple and I just wasn't getting oxygen during the reps or recovery, I felt like I was going to suffocate after every rep, but I pushed through up until the 7th rep, I started it out but after only 150 meters I was out, no oxygen, so I went off the the side and hacked up for a while before walking back to the start. After resting 5 minutes or so I joined Zach and chase for the last 5 minutes of their 20 minute run, it wasn't super easy but wasn't that hard either, I was still having trouble breathing, and my calves were starting to cramp up because there wasn't enough oxygen, but I got through it and then ran a few hundred meters to my car. I'm proud of my effort though, I didn't finish, but for being sick I pushed through well and gave the limit that my body could give today. I think I overestimated my health, but I am feeling a lot better than I was earlier, hopefully by Friday I will be back to full health for an 800m. Also Coach Murphy told me about the Leadville Marathon yesterday, I am so excited!!! Its such an awesome race, and its such an extreme marathon, the elevation and elevation gain make it a highly difficult trail race, its like Jupiter Peak Steeplechase but bigger! So I'm really excited about getting to run that, looking at past results I know its an ambitious goal but I want to break 4 hours, and hopefully be up near the leaders! I'm in better shape than I was last August, and although I've never run that long, I'm going to try and get as close to winning it as I can! I'm grateful that Murphy introduced me to mountain running, its a lot of fun and its one of the things I'm better at in running! |