Go away cold. I have a half marathon to run.

I have been super fortunate to not have gotten sick or injured during the past two race seasons. This year, I wasn’t so lucky. I was doing fine, kicking ass you might say, until this month. A lot went on in February and I will admit, my body could only endure so much.

Last Thursday, I woke up with a sore throat. There were no sniffles that came with it and so I shrugged it off and blamed it on the charred steak I ate the night before. The rest of the day, my skin began to feel clammy and I felt fatigued. Luckily, I made it to end of the work week and rested…sort of. Friday night, I may have driven to LA to attend a friend’s birthday party at GloZone LA and I may have lost the rest of my voice that night, but really, those are just small details. LOL.

Playing mini golf in the dark

On Saturday and Sunday, I basically sounded like a man…or a very seductive raspy sounding woman. I’m not really sure. Anyway, I drank hot lemon water and tea with honey and echinacea all weekend long. Monday flies by and Tuesday morning, I wake up with a lot of phelgm build up. TMI, right? I’ll spare you the details. In short, I haven’t been feeling too well.

Despite being sick, I still have been able to do my daily maintenance runs (averaging 3 miles). Why on earth would I still run, you ask? Well, because I’m sort of a sadist. Kidding. I ran because I had to complete my 100 day run streak. Day 100 fell on Friday and so I ran Thursday and Friday while sick. In all honesty, it wasn’t too bad. And when day 101 came around, I just couldn’t bring myself to stop…damn. What have I gotten myself into? I guess we’ll just see when I finish my streak.

Also, the San Diego half marathon is this Sunday and I’m determined to run it ill or not. I prefer to not be ill, but it will be what it will be. The SD Half is in its 6th year running and I’m excited to run it because I’ve never run it before. If you run this race along with the Mammoth half marathon (in June), you get a special challenge medal too. They’re both very scenic races and unfortunately, I will only be running the SD half this year. There are too many races and not enough time and money. Hashtag runnerproblems, right? The SD half also happens to fall on the day where Daylight Savings Time occurs so it’ll be interesting how my body adjusts to the time change. I, for one, am grateful for the time change. I love being able to run in the evenings without it being super dark out. Woohoo.

So that’s the update with me. How are you doing? Do anything fun last weekend? Looking forward to anything this weekend? And last but not least, wish me a speedy recovery. 🙂