9.30.2009

Not Exactly a Marathon Taper

Turns out back, is really more like "back" since I because I haven't been running, I haven't been blogging. Why haven't I been running, when here I sit, less than three small weeks away from the Denver Marathon? Well, let me tell you:


Now, while I generally do welcome any and all prescribed
breaks from house/kid duties, this is not exactly the directive you want to
get from your doctor, three weeks out from your (first, for which you
have been training for months) marathon.

While I do still feel pretty much like roadkill, I am hating not being able to run1. Quite honestly, I would be inclinced to ignore the good doc's advice and run anyway, if I thought myself capable of actually completing a decent run without going into respiratory distress. And so the very worst part of the last few days (aside from the crabby repurcussions on my poor family, of course) is that I am physically unable to run, despite the beautiful weather and the strong desire to do so. So, sadly, my new goal for the marathon has simply become to finish it come hell or high water. I don't care how long it takes, because at this point I will be glad to be running again by then. It really sucks to spend months doggedly training for something, a singular goal, only to have it slip through your fingers, just out of reach....sigh.

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1-My last run was last Thursday, a 5-miler. The weather was good and I actually felt ok at the time, except that I felt like I was having a hard time breathing, which was odd. I thought maybe it was just the incredible shrinking sports bra I had worn that day corseting my ribcage. About 4 miles in, I started feeling better and settling into my groove, so I figured I must have just needed a longer warm up for reasons unbeknownst to me (yeah, like perhaps because of the fact that my body was trying to fight of The Consumption). I was feeling good enough that I would have kept going beyond 5 miles, had I had more time. ANYWAY, I proceeded from there to the gym, had a good work out, still felt fine. Woke up Friday with a cough and a little achey, but still sort-of fine. Well, by Friday night, I was wishing I might actually die, rather than continue to feel the way I did then (extreme body aches, bad cough, high fever, exhaustion). The good news is that it isn't H1N1 or even the flu at all...the bad news is it's some other respiratory virus (on top of the sinus infection I was already on antibiotics for) that has lasted muuuuuccchhhh longer and made me feel waaaaaaayyyyy worse than the flu. Suh-weet.

8 comments:

  1. Can I borrow the "no house duties" portion of the prescription?

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  2. Oh no! You should feel tired and crabby during taper, but certainly not "kill me now" tired. Good call on the doctor, and hopefully you're drugged up and will be cured in no time.

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  3. My bet is you'll be feeling better by the end of next week at the latest. You'll have a great time at the race as long as you decide to have a great time at the race!

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  4. uggg that is not fun! hope you are feeling back to normal ASAP!

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  5. A prescription for no running?? How sad! I hope you feel better soon.

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  6. Pfffttt! You cherry-pick and post ONE of your medical records and you expect ME to trust you enough to VOTE for you? Where's your birth certificate?

    Until I see that - and I mean a NOTARIZED copy, sister - you were born in Kenya, as far as I'm concerned.

    And what the Hell do KENYANS know about running marathons?

    Feel better, sister!

    (Hope it's okay with you: I printed out your excused-from-work slip, whited out your name, and wrote mine in because MY doctor wouldn't give me one because he claims I-Don't-Wanna-Go-To-Work-itis is not a REAL disease! Pfffttt! Where'd he get HIS medical degree? Kenya?)

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  7. Yuck! Hope you feel better soon!

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  8. I want a prescription like that!!! Just the excused from house/kid duty part though. The no running sucks :(

    Feel better soon.

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