All this climaxed with a trip into hospital early Saturday morning and me getting hooked up with an IV Drip delivering 2L of fluid plus some drugs to get my temperture down. I also had a bunch of tests down to determine that I didn't have anything to sinister, which thankfully I don't. Just a well developed case of Man-flu.
So where does this leave my bid for a new half marathon record with the race in less than 2 weeks?
I suspect that if I'm lucky I'll be able to get out for a light run later on this week, form there it will be a cae of assessing how much form I've lost. The plan now is to can going for a personal record and instead use the half marathon simpl as a training run. This will mean training right into the race and not specifically tappering for it.
Its a little disapointing but life throws these curve balls at you from time to time. The test is in how you react to the trials, and making sure you come back stronger for the experience.
4 comments:
Shame that's bad. Hopefully you'll recover soon enough without messing up your plans!
That's terrible you are sick but you may still pull off a great half. The forced taper sometimes works wonders.
"You'll be well rested" is what I keep telling myself. I'm feeling heaps better now, so concentrating on eating well and will aim for an easy workout in a couple of days to see how the legs are doing. Things may well work out for race day yet!
All the best for the half Kieran. That man-flu was bad luck but I'm sure you'll do fine. Look forward to reading the race report.
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