Update on Half-Marathon Training (This post is from Monday but for some reason I didn’t hit “publish”)

I should have known SOMETHING would happen to ruin my streak of running..although it was only a week, I was proud of that week.

Well I live in a place where we experience all four seasons in ALL of their glory.  We got a few inches of snow over the weekend…and it just kept on snowing. 

By the time I woke up monday, I realized the probability of driving anywhere in my modest car was very slim.  As the day went on, and my dad shoveled the driveway about 4 times because it
KEPT SNOWING…

I decided I would just do some cardio of my own.  I did intervals of jumping jacks, running in place, and running stairs.  It was a pretty good workout! 

The next day, still snow galore, but it had stopped.  The thing is, I woke up with terrible lower back pain!  Since it was a day of “rest/easy run or walk” I decided to opt with the “rest.” 

This brings us to Wednesday when I went to my coffee catering job.  I got there bright and early with my co-worker and we had to dig out our vans to get to our event.  My back was still hurting, but I’m pretty sure that all of the digging and all of the heavy lifting did nothing to help my lower back!  I was in such pain that by the time we were making drinks…it hurt to move left to right!  I was supposed to do another event that day AND run later, but I had to have someone else cover my shift and I went home and had to lie down the rest of the day.  Boo on my body!

After resting wednesday night and thursday morning I worked at my restaurant job thursday night and friday morning.  Incase you haven’t worked at a restaurant job as a server, as long as you have tables, it is constant speed walking for 5 or 6 hours.  Since I handled that well, I thought I may as well run Saturday right?

I went to the gym with my sister on Saturday and we decided to warm up on the ellipticals, but I was feeling a little tired even doing that so I went over 3 miles on the elliptical at a 10 mile an hour pace.  I will be the first person to tell you that working out on an elliptical IS NOT the same as running, so I was just going to mark down that I did 40 minutes of cardio.  I did think it was weird, however, that I was really tired afterwards, since I have always worked out regularly even before I started running.

I went home to get ready for my boyfriend’s dad’s surprise b-day party.  I was all ready to go but my stomach was so upset that I decided to lay down a bit.  Long story short, that turned into having the chills, muscle aches, and a temp of over 101!  I haven’t been that sick in soooo long! 



I was still feeling terrible yesterday and finally got over my fever in the afternoon.  I am sitting here wondering where the week went because I didn’t run once and I realized that it’s because my body has been rebelling.  How rude!