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October 17, 2005
(Not) Exercising While Sick
I haven’t been sick in a good long while and I could feel this illness coming on. It’s not too bad at all but I have a slightly stuffy nose, I lost my voice, my throat hurts, and I’m coughing up some phlegm (sorry for the details). I was SO hot this morning when I woke up but I don’t know if I have a fever or if my apartment was just disgustingly hot which it sometimes gets in the winter. (During the blizzards last winter I had the windows open). I just feel yucky. I haven’t mentioned it, but I have also been sleeping so much over the past week. I have been getting a pretty normal amount of sleep at night-maybe a tad less than usual-but I have been taking a nap or two a day. I just woke up from a two hour nap for example so these are no baby naps either.
I think the sleeping may be from working out hard. Tufts was last week and I have been playing soccer/sprinting. But now that I know I am sick that probably has the most to do with it. It’s kind of scary how tired I’ve been. Also, I am getting leg bruises again (even before I started playing soccer) so I know I have to be more diligent about taking my multi-vitamin and eating red meat.
With all this in mind I decided not to go to the gym today, even if I don’t feel that bad. I had originally planned on swimming but then I slept in after the late night of soccer. Then I was going to elliptical and lift but I just feel so disgusting. I figure I will take advantage of this opportunity of not training for anything in particular to take it easy. I clearly need the rest and I am sure my gymmates will appreciate me staying home. Maybe if I rest I will kick this thing sooner? What's annoying is if I rest today-but am even sicker tomorrow. Oh well, c'est la vie.
Thanks for all your kind comments and e-mails re: my grandpa.
Posted by Audrey at October 17, 2005 04:39 PM
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I hope you feel better. Get lots of sleep. I'm sorry to hear about your grandfather.
Posted by: Caitlin at October 17, 2005 07:18 PM
Prend soins et repose toi!!
Posted by: ML at October 18, 2005 06:36 AM
You poor thing. You're having quite the rough week. Well, I hope your sickness is brief and I hope your trip south is nice in a family-bonding kind of way. It's strange to say, but I really enjoyed my grandparents' funerals because they lived long, interesting lives and it was nice to get the whole family together to remember them.
I saw your comment on Dianna's blog about mileage and injury. I used to say for YEARS that I couldn't run over 40/week without getting injured, but that seems to have changed. I think for two reasons. One...how INTENSELY do you train? I started doing a lot of my mileage at a really, really easy pace and that seemed to help a LOT with the wear and tear on my body, while still giving me the benefits of the higher mileage. And two...which is something you can't really do much about...grow up! (just kidding) But really, something about aging seems to make women's bodies a little sturdier and more capable of handling the higher mileage, at least it's worked out that way for me. Something to do with childbearing years probably...I guess nature is under the mistaken belief that I'm actually chasing around 10 little ones instead of training for marathons!
Posted by: chelle at October 18, 2005 05:15 PM