Emmz vs. Emmz's Body, Round 2, Down for the count

When I last wrote, I was optimistic. I had a fever, but I wasn't feeling too crazy bad. 3 hours later, I could barely move and had never felt such a fever in my adult life. Whipped out my emergency thermometer, thinking it had to be over 100.

103.2

Ouch.

I immediately called my mommy despite it being 2 am, who called our doctor, who told me to take aspirin, use tepid wash cloths, and lay around in my skivvies.

2.5 hours later, I'm down to 99. 0, thank God, and feeling much better.

Don't think I'll be up to running tomorrow, and no reason I should be. Definitely going to lay low this entire weekend. Also thinking I'm going to repeat week 3. I want to get my speed up, and this whole illness thing just going to knock me back. But I'm in no hurry, my original end date was somewhere around May 9th, and I'm not making it back to Cypress (hometown) for summer until May 21st, which is when I really wanted to be done by. In happier news, parents will be here to pick me up in the morning for Easter, and I can't wait to be home.

A little annoyed that just as I'm getting into the swing of things that something like this happened, but you gotta roll with the punches.

Emmz vs. Emmz's Body, round 1

So in addition to being a running goddess (or something close to that), I am a student. Students have tests. Students don't always study for these tests in time because 3 of their 4 classes decided to have tests/papers due in the same week. So, I pulled an all nighter. Yah, yah, its bad for you! You'll never retain the same amount of information if you studied properly! I get it. I'm usually responsible and don't pull them, I just had absolutely no choice.

The result? An aced exam and broken down body. I started getting coughing fits somewhere around 2am, and its just turned into a pretty bad cold. I'm feverish, broken down coughing, want my mommy, and have only been able to keep down around 300 calories. While I usually feel pretty bad after all-nighters, its never this bad. Think I'm going to blame this on not wiping down my exercise equipment at the gym before using it. I tried to, but they were all out sanitation wipes. Note to self- bring my own! Since our gym is used by around....30,000 students? I'd say thats a smart idea. Meanwhile, I'm going to keep the exercise to a bare minimum and just do my 100/200/200 and maybe some super light yoga. This isn't because I'm a masochist who wants to push myself when I'm down, I need to stretch my muscles or event if I'm physically able to run tomorrow, my legs will hate me.

Excited to go home tomorrow and hopefully get a run in over the weekend. Fingers crossed!