What’s a training plan without bronchitis?

Outsider — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:43:52 +0000

I’m in the last few weeks before Ragnar Chicago and the Rock n Sole Half Marathon, I’ve been hitting all of my mileage goals and long runs, and then …. bring on the sick. I ran five miles last week Wednesday, felt okay when I went to bed, but woke up with a fever on Thursday morning. I then fought a fever through Saturday, I could keep it down with Tylenol, but once it wore off my temp was up again. Nothing like waking up with a fever at 4:30am and having the chills so bad that you don’t want to move to get up and get more Tylenol.

Saturday morning whatever this was turned into bronchitis, which I have a long history with. I’ve learned it’s better to take care of it ASAP than to wait and see if it’ll go away on it’s own. I had to see an on-call doctor, but he took a brief look at my long chart and immediately took the route of the big meds. If you remember December (and training for the Goofy Challenge), the last time I had bronchitis, the meds helped and then once they were out of my system the inflammation came back in my lungs and I was on Advair for a month. Here’s to hoping that doesn’t happen this time!

For three days I laid around the house, napped, watched a handful of movies and am midway through season 2 of The Big C. On Sunday I finally felt good enough to do something productive, so I hung decorative curtain rods (FINALLY!) above my dining room and family room windows. Long story short, about a month ago I got this crazy idea to try the dining room sheers in another room, they worked and that’s where all of this started. So I now have drapes in the dining room that match the drapes in the family room (open concept, same room kind of but different sides of the house) and they are hung on decorative rods at the right height, which was important in the family room since they used to be too low and would block the air vents.

The dining room window.

But then, of course, I got the itch to move stuff around and before I know it Dogzilla’s chair has been moved over, the dining room table is on an angle and all of a sudden my entry way has a lot more room. I’m calling Sunday a success in productivity.

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Outsider — Mon, 20 May 2013 01:32:51 +0000

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Outsider — Thu, 16 May 2013 00:32:39 +0000

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What’s a training plan without bronchitis?

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