USA Track and Field Championships With A Virus

I knew it was coming. Last Sunday I ran a nice 400m (broke 54-good for Feb) and had just raced on Saturday (the 800m). On Monday I woke up feeling like death so I spent all week  NOT RUNNING and working on getting rid of whatever I had picked up.  I pushed myself beyond what I was capable of for the time constraints I’ve had during indoor.  So naturally I fell ill. I thought I was slowly getting better and I still made my way to the USA Track and Field Indoor Championships in New Mexico.  I totally bombed in the 800m and what is worse is that the heats were so slow (maybe because it’s 5,000 feet here) that all I had to do was run a bit faster to qualify for the final.   What a bummer.  Honestly, I feel like crawling into a hole right now.

I’m totally bummed about this. Had I been able to keep myself healthy, which is hard when you have to keep pushing in training to get in shape fast, I would of turned it out…but  I bombed. What else can I say and right now no amount of cold medicine is going to help. I’m just going to have to lay off for a little while.

The good news is that I’ve never run 53.89 for a 400 during the indoor season. I haven’t raced an indoor season since 2001.  I haven’t been able to train like the way I have EVER. SO there is plenty of good news and good things to look forward too….but it still doesn’t  take the sting out of today.