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May 16, 2005
Recovery
Today marks day one of the recovery process. All of last week I was feeling a little bit under the weather, but yesterday morning I knew that it was more than just allergies. When I blew my nose before leaving for the race, I blew out a nice solid chunk of green-yellow mucus. Pretty, I know. My throat has been bothering me off and on. With all of this being said, this is probably a good week to lay off.
Yesterday afternoon just got worse and worse. I threw up four times. It was all liquid, which was probably a blessing. I had no appetite, I could not get any food in me. I could hardly drink water. Bad, I know, but it made me feel even worse to put anything in my body. I slept off and on throughout the day. I finally went to bed for good around 8:30. I woke up a few times, including one time at 12:30 when I was hungry. I was craving water ice, but no place was open. Water ice probably would have been good for me with all the liquid and sugar in it. Instead, I had a little bit of lemon sorbet which made me feel like I was going to throw up again. I decided that if I did puke, I was calling out of work right then.
I woke up right before the alarm went off and got ready for work. My legs are definitely sore, especially my quads. My stomach still was not feeling up to par. I managed to eat my oatmeal for breakfast and got a cup of yogurt down for lunch. Eating was a chore. My stomach is starting to feel better and I did have a little bit of an appetite tonight, but I did not want to tax my stomach too much, so I stopped eating before I felt full.
I went to the running store to thank M for carrying me through the race. I also went to the track. I jogged the warm-up. The 2.5 miles felt so hard, I can't believe that I ran so far yesterday! The first M I ran with stopped by with his daughter and congratulated me for a good race. He said that he knew that it was a tough day because in the four years that he has run with me, he has never known me to labor so much to run the pace we were running. Other than that, I got tons of congrats. We also talked about our idiot newspaper, that pretty much ignored the race. The article was about the bagpipe players and the beautiful weather for running a marathon! Even my mom, who was sitting the entire time, commented that it was hot and oppressive. Anyhow, back to running. I ran 2.5 miles and walked a little bit more. I stretched some on the track and then headed home.
I'm calling out sick tomorrow. I probably should have today, but maybe this will make the week go by a little bit faster. I'm not running tomorrow or Wednesday. Thursday I'm going to the track and doing the warm-up plus about another mile. There is not anything to be gained by doing a whole lot this week. I'll go to the gym and get in the pool some this week. No Spinning or anything tough, just some R & R.
I would like to thank everyone for their generous comments on my race. I just got an email from someone about the race that made me tear up. Yesterday was a huge emotional high for our family considering everything that we have gone through in the past six months. Although I would have like things to go a slightly different way, I could not have hoped for anything more than what was accomplished.
Posted by Blondie at May 16, 2005 08:03 PM
Comments
Blondie I really admire your strength and endurance for pulling through all the things going on with your family, work and now this race. It's truly inspiring. Congrats again and get some much needed rest!
Posted by: Nanda at May 17, 2005 11:41 AM
i hope you are feeling better soon and are able to take a day off from work. you defintely deserve a full day (at least) of rest!
Posted by: liz at May 17, 2005 11:35 PM