I started training for the Marine Corps Marathon in early August--training consisting of running progressively longer runs once a week, other than that it was pretty much my standard running schedule of about 6 miles three times during the business week. Over the course of the training, I wondered what would happen if I got an injury: pulled something, twisted something, stuff like that. I made it to one week from the marathon without doing any such thing.
I'd forgotten about the possibility of getting sick.
Yes, one week before MCM 2005 and I started getting a scratchy throat. Always a bad sign. I started taking every bogus homeopathic cold remedy known to Trader Joe's: echinacea, zinc, vitamin C, you name it. It's Wednesday and I've switched over to tried and true methods of cold symptom containment: Sudafed Extreme Cold Formula, with a nice shot of Nyquil at night. I'm getting lots of rest and hoping to keep symptoms to a minimum. I imagine I'll still run the thing unless the cold takes a turn for the worse. We shall see.
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