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A week, ladies and gentlemen, a week. Normally, breaks in training for me have been caused by overtraining. I train too hard just one time too many and get whistled into the penalty box until my body can catch up. During these times, when I am good, I can cross train. Abdominal work, some biking, swimming, etc. But last week I was introduced to a whole new world of hiatus. No running. No training. No walking. No sort of exertion at all.
Salmonella.
I don't know for sure where it came from. But it made its presence known quickly and painfully. It started with my run last week. For the first time I can remember, I was forced into an unceremonious pit-stop. Thank Jeebus the merciful Park Rangers had opened the facilities at Haines Point. I'll spare you all the most gory details. But a 104 degree temperature, several pints of blood, and an entire week of no-training later, I was finally able to run this morning. For the (almost) 2 months of training before this past week, I kept wondering when I'd be writing my first had-to-take-a-day-off blog post. Everything had just been going so well. I hadn't missed a single workout. The good news though, is that I still haven't missed one due to injury. I've got my fingers crossed that the week off also gave my muscles and connective tissues time to do some repairing of their own. Although I am sure that most of my body's resouces were occupied with repairing my woebegone intestinal tract. I was tentative this morning. But once the rust got busted, the legs felt great and a quicker pace felt easy. I am very interested to see how both my legs and my gut react to running a full-effort 5k this coming Saturday. I'm a little behind schedule miles-wise but I'm gonna tell myself not to worry about that. It's beyond my control and I can't go and try to play catch-up and turn this into an injury. I'm just gonna be a week behind. Who cares? I'm already in great shape (unless I've lost a lot over the last week - I don't think so). It actually looks like I should be able to hop right back in on pace for correct mileage. We'll see. Later, Kids.