Half life
So I’ve been sick for days now and have missed 8 miles of running this week. It’s the first time I’ve been really ill since Christmas (literally - sick. on. Christmas). I distinctly remember being robbed of running on the beach on Christmas day, my family was staying on the Washington coast and I was so looking forward to running with ocean at my side. But I had to respect my body or run the risk of being ill for my whole visit, and so I accepted reality for what it was and moved on.
Now I’m wondering if I’m in a similar situation. I’ve been upping my mileage from 10-20 miles a week (using a program in The Runner’s Handbook) so that I can start my official half marathon training program mid July - using a 12-week half program from Cool Running that starts at 21 miles a week. I’m on week 7 of the build up phase, and should have run 17 miles this week over 5 days (4 days of 3 miles, 1 long run of 5 miles). I missed 8 of those miles. Next week is supposed to jump to 18.
Having recently started working full time again (between 3 part time jobs) I’m starting to wonder if perhaps this is all too much, especially since I’m currently sick; I always tend to get sick when I’m stressed or overdoing it. The half marathon is on 10/9 but unfortunately I didn’t build in any grace period to my training - I can’t make this week up later, I just have to keep going.
Maybe this week I’ll get my strength back and can pick up where I left off and right now I just sick of being sick, or maybe I’ll need to cut back. However, right now I also have the momentum and the desire so I can’t say I won’t be disappointed if it’s the latter.
