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Location:

Draper,UT,

Member Since:

Jun 11, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

5K- 16:37

6K CC - 19:55 

4 miles- 22:10 

10K- 34:38

15K- 49:57 

Half Marathon- 1:12:03

20K - 1:08:38 

Marathon- 2:35:49

Short-Term Running Goals:

Stay fit and have fun doing some local races.

Get my youth cross country team, www.racecats.org off the ground.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Feel energized. Stay healthy and balanced

Personal:

Four awesome kids ages 4, 8, 10, and 12 years old. Love to run, play, and write. Married to entrepreneurial Aaron.

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Fri, Oct 02, 2009
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

8 miles around Standley Lake at 8:00 pace again.

The little germs that have been scaling my body trying to get in as my immune system is still a little supressed from the marathon have officially set up camp in my lungs.  I have this nasty phlegm cough and lightheadedness that started setting in yesterday and is running its course.  At least I don't have any fever or body ache.  Just fatigue and an aggravating cough.  I'm pounding the vitamin C and trying to get extra rest so that those little germ dudes will break down camp and take a hike soon.

I also went to the gym this morning for pilates, stretching, and lifting.  Felt good. 

Comments
From Paul on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 14:47:36 from 76.27.122.123

Hope you get through this bug. I've found that pounding Emergen-C really shortens the duration of a sickness. I thought I was getting sick after the marathon, but it turned out to be allergies. Much better now, especially since it just rained and cleared out the air.

From allie on Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 15:37:29 from 67.177.43.41

interesting article:

http://www.jarcet.com/articles/Vol3Iss4/Uchakin.pdf

these types of studies certainly make valid claims with solid data to back it up, but i wonder how much of a factor our marathon behaviors play in post-marathon sickness. crowded buses, POP visits, standing around in confined spaces with thousands of people, drinking water from cups handled by multiple (presumably unwashed) hands...i always feel rather "germy" after a race. it would just be interesting to know the ratio of cause---immune suppression or marathon germs? or maybe it's the bad combination...exposed to extra germs while immunosuppressed. hmmm....

i hope you can shake this quickly. maybe if you cough super-hard you will blow out the germ dudes' campfire and then they will be forced to leave.

great running today on top of everything else.

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