After taking a full week away from the running world...

Hey everyone, it's been awhile, I know but I have a good reason I swear.

Around Sunday, I came down with a heavy cough, this was worse than my usual cough that has been plaguing me for the past month. Monday I awoke to a high fever, and nausea added to this cough, so I spent the day in bed. Tuesday, a severely sniffly nose was added to my list of symptoms and my fever had not gone done. Also, I hadn't been able to sleep that night due to the high fever and much coughing. Off to the doctor I went to find out what exactly was the matter.

Turns out, I have a severe lung infection, similar to pneumonia but quite different. After obtaining some relatively heavy duty medicine, I have been asleep for the past 120 hours, approximately.

After springing from bed this morning at 8:15 I felt well enough to run, and was optimistic about my first run of the week. I put on leggings, long sleeved base layer shirt and headed out the door. Originally, my plan had been to run at the local conservation area, but after much debate about how if I were to fall ill while running and not be able to get help, I decided to stay close to home.

It was much warmer than I had anticipated, and had to roll up my sleeves after stepping out the door.

I could tell after the first step that this run would not be the magnificent comeback that I was hoping for. My lungs constricted quickly, air burned in my throat with each step that I took.

From laying down for an entire week, my back was one spasmic knot, running did not seem to be able to soothe this beast today. After a pitiful 2.5K of strenuous effort, which should have been a simple warm up breeze, I called it a day. Clearly today i was better than I had been earlier in the week, but I'm not fully back to normal.

I'll try again tomorrow.