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CMLXXIII

October 22, 2015 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: 60s

Comments:
Blair with Rock, the two Gregs, Jacob and Hiroshi. We started at a stroll, but probably got to 7:15 by the end. Breathing was far better today, although my quads and hamstrings were trashed for some reason. Did 30 pushups, an indeterminate number of crunches (50?) because I was talking to Zeke, and then 25 more pushups.

Half the annoyance of the illness stems from the fact that the health center is located as far away as possible from every other place I go on campus. So to hear any medical professional's opinion, get any form medicine (which they don't really give anyway), it takes a large time investment. All this is to say, I don't have the x-ray results, and even if I did, how much would it change in terms of Saturday? If I'm feeling well enough to run, I'm going to.

BUT will I be feeling well enough? In a perfect world, I would make a miraculous recovery, have no cough, no congestion, no sore throat, no phlegm and feel as fresh as the morning dew on Saturday. I need to prepare myself, however, for anything but that.

I wonder if I just hadn't done the long run the day after Montreal and gone back to bed until the bus left, would I still be dealing with this 40 days later? If I had made a SERIOUS effort to get better, had admitted from the beginning, "Wait, I'm actually not well," could the past five weeks have gone differently? Who can quantify the extent to which it's really affecting training though? Sure, I feel bad in the mornings and evenings and yet I have had plenty of runs and even workouts that have felt great, with cold medicine and without. Have I been doing all these thinking I'm feeling good when in reality--I could be at a higher level now if I'd made slightly better decisions in the past? Zeke? Anthony? Mark? Thoughts?