May 31, 2011- Head Cold

I had that terrible cold for almost 3 weeks (and during the summer no less!). It started in my head, went to my chest, and made it almost impossible to breathe during my runs. So I did a really dumb thing, I stopped running. Though not entirely, I did run once a week for, at most, 5 miles but I felt so drained that it wasn’t fun anymore. I also justified my laziness by telling myself that May is always the MOST BUSY month of my job as we are in the thick of planning the Girls On The Run 5k event. So of course I had no time to train for a marathon, I just needed to get through May. I felt so guilty when one of my GOTR Coaches asked me at the Coaches Party at Santaniello’s Restaurant how my marathon training was going in front of over 150 people. Ugh! My response was “It’s going good…. I’m up to 8 miles (smile, smile).”