Joy here...After taking Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off running because I was sick, I told myself that no matter what happened on Thursday, I would be out the door with my running shoes on. As luck would have it, I was still feeling sick - coughing, stuffed nose, and scratchy throat - and to make matters worse, it was POURING rain. Apparently the tail end of tropical storm Nicole was raging through my town, and so it was a cold, wet, rainy autumn day, and I was sick. But I just could NOT take yet another day off and end up sabotaging all my months of training. In part it was psychological and in part physiological: Psychologically I knew that if I took yet another "sick day" then I would be on the slippery slope to laziness just as the last two weeks of training before the 1/2 marathon approach and Physiologically I knew that just getting out and turning my legs would be good for me. So I let most of the day pass before I literally pulled myself out the door and into the rain for a short, little run around my neighbourhood. It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing.
My run stats for my sickie-poo run were:
Ran for a total of 16:01:51 for a distance of 3.05km at an average pace of 5:15km/min.
Today the sun is out and I'm hoping for a better, longer, and easier run, but at least I won't be convincing myself to just take another day off!
Over and out,
Joy
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