"There are no compromises." -Once a runner

Went on a 40 mile bike ride.  I wanted to run later in the day but by 3pm I had a fever and by 8pm I was in bed shaking uncontrollably because of that fever only leaving to have large amounts of watery diarrhea.  So I'm gonna count my 40 miles on the bike as 13 miles easy running because it took longer and it was harder for me because I am not used to it.  The fever and diarrhea were not due to the ride, but a GI bug btw.  I am not that weak.

Although over most of the fever by 7am I was in no shape to run on monday.  I barely managed to walk the 5 minutes to get to my required class.  Still terrible diarrhea and badly dehydrated despite constantly forcing myself to drink electrolyte drinks.

Finally feeling better except slight diarrhea still.  Controllable though.  And I was able to rehydrate (I even felt thirsty which wasn't happening until this morning).  Was able to do the scheduled workout of 5x1km with 400m recovery.  Felt pretty good throughout and didn't push myself anaerobic except on the second one a little bit.  Times were 3:20, 3:18, 3:21, 3:21, 3:25 (I could have hit pace for the last one but didn't want to go anaerobic so I just chilled a bit).

On the plus side, 3 guys and 3 girls came out for the workout (I run a little running club at my school which just started its workouts for the season).  It was a decent turnout considering that it was raining.  And 2 of the guys were a bit slower than me but solid and one guy ran a 2:01 800 in HS.  He just stuck with me until the last one in which he took off with a 3:09.  He isn't in 2:01 shape now, but if he trained seriously he should be able to crack that 2 barrier or at least run some great mile times.

Did the haynes classic with some pretty speedy guys from the running club. The pace started around 8 and slowly dropped until probably about 6:40. Then going up lloyd hill we chilled a bit but not as much as I wanted. My left leg for some reason was feeling yesterday's workout more than I would have liked it to. I was planning on a tempo workout of 4x2km right at 6min pace tomorrow but I might just coach the workout and run easy distance afterwards.

Did a lactate threshold workout today.  4x2km with 400m recovery.  Times were 7:26 7:25 7:21 7:18 So starting at 5:56 pace and ending at 5:50 pace.  Felt good even easy.  The last 400m of the last one we kicked in a bit at 84 nothing crazy.  Had tons left but was happy to be done.  Now I have two easy days and then the 30k road race.  This race will be a real indicator for my marathon.  But I am not going to go 100% because I mean who cares about 30k race times?  I am doing this for a quality long workout.  I wish the marathon was in november though.  I am feeling like I am on the cusp of getting 'it' back but could ride that improvement wave for almost 2 months before really peaking.  Oh well, I will work with what I've got. 

Attempted to find a good 2 bridge run but the dirt road ended sooner than I thought and we ended up running on massive gravel next to the railroad tracks which wasn't fun.

10.5 very slow on the bike path.

 The pre-marathon diet began last friday but I didn't weigh in because my scale was still packed in the trunk of my car.  Today I unpacked it and after lunch today I dialed in at 161!  That means that I am already probably sub 160 in the morning when I would usually weigh myself.  My goal is to be about 155 for the marathon.  That should make 3-5 minutes difference from my summer weight of 165.