What the difference a few days make. If I had written a entry in the middle of the week I would have reported how happy I was with the way my training was coming along. My mileage was heading back towards where it should be, around the 50 miles a week plus area and as an added bonus my times were starting to see an improvement as well. The midweek medium/long run was starting to develop, this week was 10 miles in the next month or so I hope to build this up to half marathon distance. My training was leaving me tired but it was a happy kind of tired with the knowledge that everything was coming together.

So what has changed? The dreaded lurgy has attacked. I awoke this morning with a sore throat and a blocked up nose. Being ill is not something that I do that well, I get too restless to be able to just take it easy and let my body recover. Then I will start thinking have I pushed myself too hard over the last week or so, I have increased the pace after all, and therefore brought the cold upon myself? Maybe, but its more likely because my wife has had a cold all week, I live in a country were minus temperatures are the norm and instead of a nice cosy office I work in a constant 4 degrees warehouse.

So I just have to accept it. I will probably end up loading myself full of fruit this week and multi vitamin drinks to try and help the bugs on there way. I will try and keep the routine up in the coming months as well to try and keep on the right side of the healthy/ill line. If I can keep it up who knows, until recently fruit and myself were usual companions, but it has to be better than being ill.

In reality I guess its not that bad, all going well I should be shot of the sniffes in a few days. I will miss a long run, I had planned my second 20 miler this weekend, but I am ahead of schedule for this marathon so its bearable. It could have been worse a cold is much better than a injury. So no more feeling sorry for myself, I will be back out there running soon and on the right side at least it meant I had the time to blog!