All I can say is I am still very very sick! I think I have had
everything possible this week, sore throat, stuffy nose, head ache,
fever, cough, diarrhea, runny nose, vomiting, etc. I have really
struggled through every run this week, and seem to get more sick
everyday. Diarrhea has been my most recent plague. I went to the
bathroom five times in between when I woke up and left Dan's house to
run. I know that I was super dehydrated, and I felt like death, but I
wanted the miles. Dan and I left his house and ran up TOU
course. Dan wasn't feeling good himself, so the run turned into a
marathon viewing run instead of a marathon pacing run. We had every
wise guy on the course telling us that we were going the wrong way, No
really!!! We went up to about mile 12 before turning around. The
wind was crazy! I bet it was one heck of a tailwind, because it was
standing us in place. We went from a 7:10 pace to a 9:00 pace fighting
that wind! Hobbie came through the half way mark way out in front,
and we stopped to cheer him on. He was flat flying, and looked like
perfection out there! Plus, he had a big grin on his face. The two
Kenyans were a good 3 minutes behind, and Sasha was a couple minutes
back from them. It was quite a while before we ran into the Jon Allen
pace group, and then Cody, Kory, and Bill were an other couple minutes
back. We cheered everyone on and turned around. We headed back into
Millville averaging 6:25- 6:40 pace. The runners around us didn't know
what to think of us running a training run with them. We stopped at
every water stop on the way up and way back to drink, and instruct them
on how to hold the cups. When we hit by Dan's house we wanted to
make it back to the park to see our friend finish, so took every short
cut to get there. All of the volunteers and some of the runners would
freak out that we were going the wrong way. Even Bill Cobler got a
little nervous when we cut through a park in front of him around mile
24! We got back after Sasha had come in and had to sneak in the finish
area to talk to him and the two from Kenya, that is when we found out
that Hobbie had pulled a 2:16. We had to wait for a while to see Steve
come in, he was all alone. Then a couple minutes later Jon, with Paul,
and Logan came in. I started coughing up a lung from yelling so hard
for Jon. It was cool that Paul and Logan stuck with him, and it was
fun to see them all come in together. I was excited to see him break
2:40. Bill, Cody and Kory eventually came in too, with Cody and Kory
both PRing big. Seeing everyone come in so good today made me wish
that I wasn't so sick and that I would have run today and went for my
sub 2:35, but as it was I wouldn't have been able to finish today. We
cooled down with the guys and went and jumped in for a massage, even
though we didn't run. Logan took us back to Dan's afterwards. I slept
for most of the day and missed out on going down to the State fair with
my wife. I am still really bad off, and can't keep anything in my
body. I am a little concerned because I never get sick for more than a
day, (except for when i got Pneumonia),and this has been with me for a
week now and seems to be getting worse. I know if I can get healthy I
can do some good things in 3 weeks, but if I can't it might be another
running season down the drain! (Omni- 160 miles)
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