Training for a Belt Buckle

Had to go in to work to finish a project that had to be done for a client after EOD Friday. 2.5 miles each way.

Still no energy this morning.  Tried to push my pace, but my lungs and throat just wanted to make me puke.  I really hate the gaggy feeling I have between snot running down the back of my throat and mucus coming back out.  

Enjoying some lovely butter pecan Ensure on the rocks and then off to work.

PM - ran to the gym, did a chest, triceps and core workout. Ran home. 10 x around the world core workout.

Tuna fish is calling my name.

Too lazy to get out of bed today.  

For the first time in a week and a half I am starting to feel better today.  Still have lots of mucus and crud coming out of me - but I don't feel horrible all the time today. Yay!

I will fit in a workout this afternoon if I can and then am going to see Hello Dolly at Hale Center Theater tonight.

PM - Did Back and Biceps lifting tonight.  3 miles running on the treadmill.

Met Leslie and walked the first 2 miles uphill on the Little Cottonwood Trail this afternoon. Between the uphill and the heat, it was toasty.  Les turned around at mile 2 and I continued to the top - running as much of it as I could (about 2/3 of the remaining trail). Ran the entire 3.25 miles down and then walked the little side trail as a cooldown/stretching period.

Around the world core x 10.

Just ran 3 miles with the dog this morning.  

I don't know whether to be concerned about my lungs or not.  The past three days have been 'different'.  I go to bed at night with high expectations for my workout in the morning. Then I wake up and my lungs feel 'tired'.  I can't explain it - but I can really feel my lungs when I wake up and they are not happy.  They don't bother me later in the day, but take away my motivation for working out in the morning.

Also, I have had the ball of my right foot hurt for the past 2-3 weeks.  It is most sensitive when I walk barefoot, but I can also feel it when I am running.  Strangely enough, it hurts less running in the FiveFingers than in padded shoes.  I felt the ball of the foot several times on my trail run yesterday.  It is not a painful hurt, but feels like a bruised foot would - however, it doesn't get better or worse and it does not stop me from working out.

Maybe I'm just getting old and falling apart.  Any thoughts?

Update: Went to the doctor who says my lungs are clear - no sign of infection or asthma.  However, considering the amount of training I do and my fitness level, she says that maybe there is some kind of upper respiratory infection/inflammation, so we are trying a combination of antibiotics and inhaler to see if they help.

PM - 2 miles with the dog.  We headed down to a snowcone shack and shared a sugar free snowcone.

2 miles running with Twilight, then another 8.4 on my own.

Too tired to do an early morning run.  After 15 hours of work yesterday in an office building with a dead air conditioner, I got home after midnight and didn't fall asleep until 1 a.m.  Got up with enough time to do a quick puppy walk and back in the office by 6:45 a.m.  

Maybe later????