Marathon Training: Week 13

This will come as no surprise to those of you who’ve kept track of my rainy runs (two within the last week)…

I’m sick.

I tried to deny it for a while and run in crappy weather anyway, but obviously that didn’t work out. I’d like to blame this on my body and say that my immune system has failed me, but I acknowledge that it has more to do with… user error.

Little sore throat + rainy 12-miler + big party with lots of beer consumed + very little sleep + rainy 5-miler = full-on sickness.

So now I rest and drink huge glasses of ice-cold lemon-lime Nuun and hope for a speedy recovery. I have an 18-mile run on Saturday, people!

I just recapped Marathon Training: Week 13 on Answering Oliver, and it was a great week — but also perhaps an example of a girl packing in too many activities and getting too little sleep when she already didn’t feel 100%. Don’t be like me, kids.