To 5K or Not to 5K

I'm suppose to do the Sham rock'n 5K tomorrow. To start building speed again and all that.

But the hip is still a little tender.

I don't know. I don't know.

Even if I can do it, it probably won't go well. I don't know

Oh no!

I did my long run Tuesday. And it was bad. Not good.

My hip started hurting, started doing the feeling like the bones were rubbing together thing. I kept running and it kept hurting. It started in my right knee and just moved up my leg.

I cut the run a little short and then walked the last little bit that would have been on cement so I wouldn't hurt myself anymore. But it was still more painful than it's been in a year. The one point where I had to run down the levee and then back up, tiny little uphill/downhill, was awful. I was practically limping, dragging my leg.

So, this isn't good.

It was still sore and difficult to walk yesterday, but I biked the last two days and it feels a little better. I'm hoping this was just one of those things. Because if it wasn't, well, it's going to be hard to do triathlon if I can't run again.

Very not happy about this.

Team Time Trial

I have no immune system. It's true. I had mono for a year and since then....Now, every sniffle turns into tuberculosis. I've had bronchitis twice. And I'm pretty much the most tired person you'll ever meet, despite the fact that I sleep about 9 hours/night.

You would think a doctor might be concerned about this. But they all tell me 'oh, it's just a cold, rest up and it'll go away'. (yes, i'm not really a hospital/doctor fan. We don't talk about it.) I'm pretty sure I have some immuno defiency disorder or chronic fatigue or something.

The point is: a sore throat a week ago turned into horrible congestion turned into an awful cough and I couldn't bring myself to move most of this week. Did almost NO training. But I had already promised and signed up for the Berkeley Team Time Trial with Steve, in the coed division.

This is a picture of the race from last year: (I don't know if you can tell how much I'm grimacing)



Last year, we got third with a a 50:07 effort. This year we got 10th with 49:49. Little bit tougher competition. Little bit.

It was hard. I dropped my chain on one of the uphill-downhills and had to get off my bike. I hit Steve's wheel a couple times, but one time it nearly knocked me off my bike. By halfway through I was having a horrible time breathing again, my lungs have been burning what with the coughing, and I was gasping and hacking. (Spent 10 minutes after the finish coughing so hard I threw up a little in my mouth.)

But most annoying: My threshold is 200W, that's pretty much what I can hold for an hour. But the whole race it said I was doing 230, 240.

I thought I was doing GREAT. I was amazed; I was so excited; I thought we were going SOOOOO fast and I was going SOOO hard. SO even when I started to die a little, down to 200-210W I thought that was still good. Then it was only after the race that I realized when I was coasting at 0W, it was reading from 40 to 100. So my whole powermeter was off and I wasn't really going SO hard. Damn. Damn. Damn.

But I'm not sure I could have gone much harder. I was getting a little wobbly/dizzy and having a bad time breathing. At one point the pieces of glass on the side of the road were glistening in the sun, but I though I was seeing spots.

Isn't biking fun.

Also, Levi was there. He did the team time trial by himself. And won. By 3 minutes.

NyQuil

I took alot of Nyquil last night and passed out. Which was good.

So I slept more than I have recently. But I still don't feel great today. Went to go on a long run, but made it 1.5 miles and then just couldn't stop sneezing and wheezing.

What to do when you're not feeling well? And last week was a rest week. sigh. i don't think I'm really getting the base I should be.

So Stuffed Up

I'm very very congested today.

I haven't been able to sleep well in a few days. There were some nights of just restlessness and then the past two nights and being really stuffed up.

Now, I just feel pretty compressed, like my head is being smooshed in. So I'm thinking the 8.5 mile run I had on the schedule may not happen today.

Night Swimming

In less than a week, there will be no more having to swim in the dark. Yay!

To celebrate, I went and swam in the dark last night. Just so I can remember how horrible it really is biking home on the pitch-black bike path, wet and cold, when a skunk runs in front of your bike and a strange guy starts talking to you in Spanish.

It looks like this:


Daylight Savings will be awesome.

Resting

I didn't sleep well again last night. Something about rest weeks and not training and thinking too much.

Last week, my boss asked if racing got easier with training and didn't even hurt eventually. That reminded me of the summer my friend and I trained so hard for cross-country. I was convinced that if I trained this hard then the races wouldn't hurt, I'd be able to do the same times without hurting.

It didn't really work that way, though.