dedication, perseverance, self-discipline

I have been sick the last few days and I started feeling a lot worse last night.  I woke up fairly regularly throughout the night and there was about a half hour stretch where I couldn't sleep at all.  My skin was warm to the touch and I was even sweating a little bit while I slept but I had the chills and I felt cold, which is partly why I couldn't sleep.  So, I didn't run in the morning and I only went to school to work on a group project for a class.  After that I came home and went back to bed until 2:30pm.  I wasn't asleep the whole time but I didn't move or eat much during that entire time period.  I also took my resting heart rate on Thursday and on Friday morning and both times I checked it my resting heart rate was about 84bpm which is incredibly fast.  I checked it one more time a little before 3pm and it had gone down to 66 which is closer to normal for me (54-60 is normal for me).  When I got up at 2:30 I was feeling a lot better so I decided to go to work for a while and I stayed until 6:00pm.  After that I came home and went running with Sasha at about 7:00pm.  So, the mileage is lower than normal and the run was later in the evening but I am feeling better.  Still not 100% but a lot better than I was.  I am just glad the fever broke when it did otherwise I would be wasting the 26 dollars I spent on the 5k I am running tomorrow.  Hopefully I can run well despite getting sick yet again.  It has been one heck of a winter for me.  I don't think I have gotten sick this often in years.