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.