my marathon training is done over winter, and you’re just more likely to get sick then, or that pushing my body too hard makes me run down, it just always happens and i have to work around it.
as you can tell from my last post this illness hit 5 weeks out from the marathon.
despite my best bargaining with the gods nothing helped – after that last post i got home from work so exhausted i could barely undress myself, so needless to say the next few days were spent being a grump and resting some more.
it was a very chunky sounding cough; impossible to run with and causing me to 