The Mongoose

Last night I started to get an itch in my throat and I knew a sickness was coming on, because that's generally the first sign for when I start to get sick. So I made sure to load up the vitamin c but it didn't help as much as I'd wanted it to. Woke up this morning and the itch was now pretty painful and my whole head just hurt. 3 miles easy and I started to feel a little better. 

In the afternoon I was a little better, but I was just plain tired. I felt like a dementor sucked all the happiness out of me and I was stiff as a board. 8.5 miles what should have been easy but totally drained me. Hopefully I can kick this soon because I hate not being able to run my best.

I was feeling really crappy last night and had a lot of schoolwork to do so I decided not to go to practice this morning. I felt a lot better when I got up but as school went on I just kept feeling worse and got more fatigued with each class period. This afternoon was supposed to be 1000m repeats but I knew that if I tried to do them I wouldn't be able to hit my times and would probably negatively affect me more than it would positively. So I just did the warm up and cool down and jogged around the track while the guys did their workout. Pretty bummed about missing a quality workout like this one, but I think I already hit the peak of my sickness and I should be better soon. This sickness has been pretty frustrating because every morning before I got sick I drank orange juice and took a multivitamin so I don't understand why I even got sick in the first place. Oh well.

I was still feeling pretty bad last night so I slept in to get some more sleep. I didn't feel a whole lot better when I woke up. At practice I ran 4 miles easy, but it felt hard. It was hard to breathe. 

No morning practice again today. I slept in to get some extra sleep so I can get over this sickness faster. In the afternoon I felt okay enough to go the full mileage with the guys so 7 easy out on the trails. Still kind of hard to breathe but I can tell that it's getting better. My nose was pretty stuffed up too. Some more easy mileage tomorrow and hopefully I will be able to do the power run on Saturday.

Coach moved the afternoon practice Kenyan run to this morning. I was planning on going but I kept waking up throughout the night and would have these kind of cough-attack things, so I tried to get as much sleep as I could and did the run after school instead. I actually felt pretty good for probably the first time this week which is a good sign going into tomorrow's workout. I'm pretty bummed that I missed some quality mileage this week due to being sick, but that means that I'm going to have to work really hard these next couple of weeks in order to catch up to where I'm supposed to be. One thing that this sickness actually helped me with was that it got me back into the groove of taking care of myself the best that I can. I went to bed at a pretty good time everyday this week, started taking a water bottle to school again, and made sure that I was taking my vitamin everyday. I think these little things will really propel me forward this season and avoid injury or another sickness if I'm able to be consistent with them.

I warmed up 2 miles before starting the 2 mile power run. The power run didn't go exactly as planned, I was a little slow on my times, but it's kind of what I expected after missing a whole week of workouts and being sick. Finished the run with a 5.7 mile cool down. I felt pretty good for most of the run so I know I'll be able to get the workouts done next week. Big week before the first meet on Friday. Excited to see what I can do.