View Benchmark solo:
After work I hit up View Benchmark via Ann's trail. This has been a crazy week for me so far. I worked a 16 hour day yesterday and I have been sick since Saturday and today was the worst day by far. My chest is very heavy and I'm plugged up everywhere. I didn't want to miss another day,so I decided to hit the trail. It was stunning out there today and definitely didn't feel like the end of October. Right from the start I felt sluggish and slow (I'm sure the Benadryl didn't help).
I saw a biker about 1/4 of a mile back and my goal was to keep him from passing me. I was so slow that I am not sure how it took him until almost mile 2 to pass. I hiked the connector trail and I had already stopped several times to blow snot-rockets, as I am not skilled enough yet to do them on the run. The higher I went the worse I felt, but I was determined to push through and finish it off. Up to the summit in a dreadful 50 minutes. Slow. I stayed for about 5 seconds and didn't even enjoy the view. Blah.
The run down didn't get any better. I was super slow and it was tough keeping a 9 min pace on the downhills. My chest was so heavy, it felt like I had a yak sitting on me and I tried several times to cough out the crud, but it was too tight in there. Slow. Sick. Farmer-blow. Oh and I saw more bikers out on my way back than ever before (at least 15). That sucks because this has been my personal running trail for a year now and it sucked stopping every minute to let them pass. Whiiiiiiiiiiiiine!
PM update: Weights at the gym for an hour. I had very little energy, but I got it done. | 