Hope the sore throat and cold shifts soon!

I think you did well to get out and do the race considering. Good job you didn't win today or they might be suspicious of excessive Lemsip consumption! LOL

Best thing is to get better and focus on your next race (the 10K?). Stupid colds!

Hope the cold clears up. Good job getting out and even racing...you can't always have an A day, so this is just one to put in the books and look forward to the next one.

Have a great weekend.

arrghh. Hated dreadful colds! Take it easy - you ran hard with a bad cold, you really need to take care of yourself. Today was a great training day and I am sure you will get a great race in after you are better.

I am sure that neither of your men see it as letting them down. A happy Mommy is a happy home ;).

Great job despite the cold and the medicine head. I can't run 4 miles that fast on my best day. I betcha your next race when you are not sick you will reap the benefits of your training(those killer lungbursting mile repeats).

Nice job Sam! You did well for not being 100%. Hopefully you recover soon!

Great job! I've got to admire your focus and effort. Sick, terrible weather, and you still put in an awesome time! Hope start feeling better.

Considering you had a sore throat I would say 6th place is not too shabby...

Not bad at all, having a cold really makes you appreciate when you don't have one (that's about all I can do for coming up with a bright side). Great job getting out there and doing it!

Great job. Your pace is still faster than I can run one mile.

6th place in only your 2nd X/c of the season is pretty dam good, hang in there with a positive outlook and in a couple more races you should be up there challenging for the top 3.

Hey, nice job despite not feeling great. You'll be that much better at your next race!

Chris LOL at the lemsip consumption ha ha, yeah the 10k Im not sure im gonna do that one lets see how long this head cold last for huh!

Jeff- thanks I have a clearer perspective on it now, I can be hard on myself. thankyou.

Bonnie- No they dont see it like I said, but I do, as I feel so selfish at times, but theyre really good to me, so supportive nowadays, and due to that I feel I need to make more of an effort, but yesterday nothing clicked realy, I didnt get race nerves or adrenaline, so not like me, Im such a nerve BOMB LOL thanks though :)

Vinh- Lyman-Adam, Mark and Burt, thankyou your support has cheered me up allot, I still feel ill but at least I am smiling thanks :-)

Rick Nice to see you yesterday, why didnt you run?? Niz did great. As I said I am hard on myself, I have to accept I am still not race fit, but I am getting there slowly, It seems like a long slog this time round, but I have come back so much slower on purpose from the hammy injury. I start proper training soon for the marathon, I am just trying to get used to training, and being fit enough to embark on the marathon training and doing races again without being a huge nervous wreck LOL yes this is why I didnt race much, I got race shy :-)

Jon thanks, not long and I have another race, but as my coach says I am not really tapering properley for these races, Im using them as training for mental purposes and strength fitness.

Thanks Guys and Girls :-)

I swear Winter racing is so hard on us! Its impossible to get good times in -3 weather also. You did great and get better asap. I dont think you let anyone down! You came and blasted it out and itll make you a better runner.

Sorry about the cold. I think you did awesome at the race because you had a lot of things going against you. Now get some rest....

We take what are body gives us on certain days and that's all you can do. When your sick the body has limits and you did the right thing by not hammering the run.

Look at it this way you did the race got a good tempo run in so no training wasn't lost. Chalk it up as a training run rather than a race.

Families never let each other down even though I've felt the same way at times.