It moved into my apartment, filled my trash can with Hall's drops, ran up a huge bill on drugstore dot com, dated my SO, and kept me up all night partying and trashing my body.
I thought I'd managed to kick it out, was back swimming and running... even finally got back to a masters' practice (which I avoided before not wanting either to infect anyone or need to be rescued). All good, right?
Wrong! It sneaked in the back door, just when I thought it had moved out for good. Those muscle aches that signaled fever... and tonight I had to skip my group run... sure it's 18 degrees out and maybe a wise move if just over an illness. But I want my health back!
There's a 5.25 mile swim I was planning on in August, and I'd been on a ROLL at the end of Jan. Then crash! But in the last couple weeks, I was inching back to something like normal. Getting optimistic again. But if I have to lose another week or two of training, I don't know....
Oh and I had thought I'd be good for the (running) half marathon this weekend. That's in question now. Hoping maybe this is just a temporary setback, not a whole 'nother case. :blah:
Get well vibes and suggestions welcome.... will say this bug has endurance. Maybe I should find out its secret for when I'm back swimming for REAL again. And I just bought myself a cool new chlorine resistant poly suit as a consolation gift. Maybe I'll get to use it someday....
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Innerfish:
My condolences on being under the weather; if it's any consolation, I have been sick since Sunday; totally out of the water and I have a 1 mile race next Sunday. This should prove interesting. But don't forget, I don't, that a lot of training has been done prior to being ill and it really doesn't take that much to get it back, unless a person has pneumonia or something really serious.
So I am banking on the fact that last Saturday I did a 3.25 mile swim, and I have only been out of the water for 4 days; sometimes unforeseen forced recoveries help more than we think.
As for your 5 mile swim in August, you HAVE time; don't worry about that; you've got four full months plus some. And I will probably be burned at the stake here, but every single time I have ever had a flu shot, I get the flu. No one believes me except my husband because he sees the terrible pattern. All my doctors told me it was impossible; they are WRONG.
donna
Innerfish:
My condolences on being under the weather; if it's any consolation, I have been sick since Sunday; totally out of the water and I have a 1 mile race next Sunday. This should prove interesting. But don't forget, I don't, that a lot of training has been done prior to being ill and it really doesn't take that much to get it back, unless a person has pneumonia or something really serious.
So I am banking on the fact that last Saturday I did a 3.25 mile swim, and I have only been out of the water for 4 days; sometimes unforeseen forced recoveries help more than we think.
As for your 5 mile swim in August, you HAVE time; don't worry about that; you've got four full months plus some. And I will probably be burned at the stake here, but every single time I have ever had a flu shot, I get the flu. No one believes me except my husband because he sees the terrible pattern. All my doctors told me it was impossible; they are WRONG.
donna
