Meh. That's how I feel right now. Thursday morning I had a bit of a sore throat, Friday I was a bit under the weather and then yesterday (Saturday) was a real struggle, wooly head, blocked nose, poor nights sleep, bit of a wheeze and I should have seen it coming!
I still went out for the 6.5 mile run, time was average, for a couple of weeks ago (66 mins) but it felt heavy all the way around. I was aching in the evening, though it was joints rather than muscles and I collapsed into bed a lot earlier than the norm. And today, in preparation for an 18.4 mile run I had a crap nights sleep, can't breathe at all through my nose and feel as though I have been squeezed through a mangler. It's a cold, but a bit of a brutal one. The run today is out of the question. :-( and in some respects that's not such a bad thing. My training program has been a steady increase of weekly mileage and the Sunday long run getting steadily longer. Many training programs have a dip. Long run distance increases week after week but then once or twice over the period of 16 weeks, the distance drops back, say 14, 15, 17, 13, 17, 20. So in this circumstance, I'm dropping back, enabling my body a slightly longer chance to recover. That's the upside, the downside is, to my OCD mind, I've missed out on 18.4 miles in the total and the equivalent distance on my "Virtual" journey across the South of England.
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