Strep!

January 10, 2010

herb mindless dribble, training , 2 Comments

No, that pink line you see there does not mean I’m pregnant. However, I do have strep throat.

Strep Test

My positive strep throat test

It’s good to have a diagnosis, but I feel like I would have been 100% better by tomorrow. Nonetheless, it’s good that I’m on an antibiotic now, not that I’m a fan of antibiotics, but I’m contagious for another 24 hours after first taking it and I don’t want my daughter catching this. Plus, the doctor clued me in on a series of complications that can occur after strep if it’s not treated with an antibiotic. This one is rather ironic given my last post regarding my echocardiogram. Ok, so I won’t be the tough guy and I’ll take the damn antibiotic.

I’ll give it one more day off today, probably run easy tomorrow without any fear now that I’m on medication, and see from there. I have some VO2 max intervals loosely scheduled and I want to get those in sooner than later for Jan 24th.

Shame this has really blown my mileage for January. I have a casual goal of 215 miles per month with 2600 year-round for 2010 and with only 41 miles 10 days in it looks like I’ll already miss it.

climbing the walls

January 10, 2010

herb mindless dribble , , , , 1 Comment

Throughout the night I woke up about once per hour in pain and unable to swallow. I finally got out of bed at 6am. After about 15 minutes or so I noticed my throat losing some of the sticky sore feeling it had throughout the night.

I popped two Tylenol and wasted time online. I noticed the weather was also 10 degrees Fahrenheit!!! I’m almost glad I have the excuse of being sick in order not to run in this temperature.

Before the sun was up I saw a runner doing the lap around my development I usually do; just in reverse. Although I didn’t get a good look, I suspect it was one of the two Japanese women who live near by who I often see and wave to along the Bronx River Pathway. They’re a bit older and very dedicated to running.

For a split moment I thought about going out to do the same and then I remembered that I’m sick.

I’ve since played around with this and have created something pretty cool from my long run in Düsseldorf.

It’s now 10:00am and I’m trying to figure out a strategy to get my wife to allow me to go out for an easy 30 minute run. Yes, she’s the boss.

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