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XTERRA 5K :)

Plan: Plain and simple - pace Sophers for roughly 2 miles and then encourage her to leave.

Execution: NO BUENO!!! Could barely stay with Sophers for a little more than a mile. My body was seriously angry at me. My calf was killing, I couldn't breath and I felt plain awful. It didn't help that the race was 1/2 mile long when you feel so crappy. I wasn't even running that fast but I felt like I was going to stinkin' drop over!

Result: Sophia did AMAZING!!! She came in a little under a minute before me taking 2nd place overall woman, and 1st in her division. She was also 11th overall combined men and women. She got some fun prizes, which was super fun. That girl is on fire!!! :)

FUNNY STORY:

So during the award ceremony for age divisions they decided to start with the oldest and end with the youngest. I was patiently awaiting to be called in the 35-39 division because they started oldest to youngest. However, when they did the 40-44 year olds they called my name as placing first! WHAT!!! I am not 40!!! I politely told them this when they said, "Hey Sweetie, it says here that you turn 40 this year. That's how we do it here." WOW!!! Was not expecting that!!!!! I felt kind of numb and still haven't decided what to do with the feelings that came a little later. :)

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No way I want to run a marathon feeling like I felt during this race. Sigh. What to do? (Not a real question, just thinking out loud.) :)

60 minutes elliptical - not feeling well at all (both calf-wise and whole body-wise). What is going on.

45 minutes doing aquatic rehab during a neuro lab (I happened to be the one pretending to be the patient and got put through the ringer). Feeling lousy.

60 minutes elliptical including 8 x 3 minutes hard, 2 minutes easy

* Shouldn't have done the on:offs. I feel like poo! Thought the harder effort would boost my immune system some. Not so much! Felt like I had been hit by a dump trunk all day.

Calf doesn't hurt at all on the elliptical. But does hurt when walking/stairs/etc. My stomach won't let me take any ibuprofen or any other meds. What is going on with me?

50 minutes elliptical, easy.

I feel about the same.

30 minutes elliptical

30 minutes bike

* If I don't start feeling better today I am taking tomorrow off.

8 miles, AP 8:24, just to see if I could do it. Decided that if there was too much pain that I was going to call SGM off. It was kind of mediocre so I still am unsure as to what to do.

Couldn't sleep last night. Woke up about every 90 minutes in horrible pain: mostly head, left eye, nose, left jaw and left sided teeth pain. Felt like my head was going to blow up. Almost went to the ER (but that is because I can be overly dramatic sometimes). Decided to go to the InstaCare and wait in the parking lot for it to open so that I could be the first one there: which I was.

Had a slight fever and my blood pressure was much higher than usual. Pretty bad sinus infection that seems to have irritated the trigeminal nerve (hence all of the horrible face pain). Am presently on an antibiotic and pain meds. Just knowing what is going on made me feel somewhat better even though I still hurt and my stomach doesn't like the medicine. The doctor I saw is running SGM and has run over 70 marathons. He was very nice and told me that it wouldn't hurt to try and run today because my lungs sounded good (that's shocking ... that's usually the first thing I have problems with). He said once the congestion reduces a little that hopefully the nerve will settle down. I hope that is VERY VERY VERY soon. It has been a rougher week for me.

BUT ... I feel like things are going to really turn around now! One bad week every now and then really isn't too bad at all. :)