Took today off. Orthopedically, I was fine after yesterday's run, but two and a half hours running in subfreezing weather for the first time in eight months seems to have done a number on my sinuses. I went to bed a little early last night and went straight to sleep, but then the drainage kicked in as my bedroom cooled off (the single HVAC vent in my bedroom is at the other end, and there's a large window by my bed, so we get a lot of solar heating in the summer and the room gets really cold in the winter). Then the drainage triggered my asthma, which has not bothered me for months and months, but I was really having to make extra effort to breathe and I was audibly wheezing. It got a little better when I sat upright, so I spent much of the night on the Internet instead of in bed. When I finally went back to bed at 6:30 a.m., I "napped" until 10:00. But the drainage continued off and on all day, and I just decided not to run today. Maybe I'll make up the 6 miles I had scheduled by spreading them out over the rest of the week, maybe I won't (it is taper time, after all). | 