Thursday 17 November 2011

Strange week

I have been strangely ill this week. Yes I know it was only the week before last that I had a little bug and took some days off, but here we are again.

On Saturday I had a bit of a headache, which I put down to red wine on Friday night. On Sunday I had a really bad headache and felt shivery and achey. On Monday Pete had to stay home from work to look after the kids, and I spent the whole day in bed. Whenever I got up my head pounded and I felt dizzy. On Tuesday I threw up before I'd eaten anything, but then felt quite a bit better.

Now I'm feeling almost back to normal, but I just can't get enough sleep, and I'm still getting little headaches. I don't know what it is.

So all this has meant I've done sod all exercise all week. Last week was ok though - up until Friday at least. I ran 8 miles on Monday! I was really happy with my longest run yet this year, and I kept my pace nice and steady (9.27 min/miles ) so it didn't hurt too much.

On Tuesday evening I went out for a 3-mile recovery run, and my legs were obviously feeling it as this turned out to be at 9.37 pace - slower than the 8-miler!

On Thursday I ran with the local group, and we did 400 metre repeats - 4 x 400m with 1 min recovery between each, then a jog round the block. We did this set 3 times, which totalled 12 repeats of 400m! It was hard-going. I ran with 2 women who I felt were both a bit faster than me and I had to keep pushing myself to keep up.

Then on Friday I cycled 10 miles against the wind, so that was quite slow too. Given that I didn't run or cycle at the weekend, I was pleased with 16.2 miles running mileage.

So I might try a little jog tomorrow, and then we're away all weekend, so I might just start again next week. Thank God I haven't got a half marathon or other long race planned - I can do what I want really!

5 comments:

  1. How frustrating for you! But it's just the way it goes sometimes - you catch one thing after the next. And having young children means that you're exposed to any virus doing the rounds. Hope you're feeling better soon.

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  2. Oh yucky, I feel bad for you!!! Hope you're on the mend now and can hit the reset button next week and get back on track!

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  3. Don't beat yourself up for not getting your exercise in - it sounds like you were really fighting some kind of virus or something. I hope the headaches improve and you feel back to normal soon!

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  4. I have red wine EVERY Friday night and it never gives me a headache - but those 12 x 400m repeats might! Well done for those.
    Trust you're now back to running/cycling fitness again.

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