I've come down with a bit of a cold over the past few days. Wednesday night, my throat was a little sore and I woke up yesterday just feeling like... blech. Blah. Blargh. (Yeah... that sums it up.) I was hoping it was just allergies (I used to have allergies in the fall up in NY), but by midday, it was pretty apparent I had an out-and-out cold. I was a little dizzy, my nose was getting a little stuffy, I was feeling feverish (although, I didn't actually have a fever). I ended up skipping last night's 5 mile run. There was just no way I was going to be able to make it, so I figured I'd just rest up for this weekend.

Tomorrow, TS and I are running the North Face Endurance Challenge 10K. It's supposed to be a gorgeous day, sunny with a high of 76. We'll be running large portions of the race in the shade (or so we've heard) on the trails. I was really looking forward to this race, so I hope that I feel well enough to run it tomorrow. My biggest concern is how easily I overheat, and if I'm already feeling under the weather, it might be even more of a problem. I'm planning on bringing my own water in addition to the water stations and hoping that with plenty of water and running in the shade, it shouldn't be much of a problem. Before I got sick this week, I was hoping to finish in under 72 minutes. Now I think I'm looking at 80 minutes or so, but I won't sweat it if I go over that by having to walk a lot.

I'm feeling better today, probably because I've been taking DayQuil and Zicam. I'm going to head to bed in a few minutes and hopefully be asleep by 9:30 or 10. We need to get up at 7:30 tomorrow morning, so if I can get a good 9 hours sleep I think that will really help. I really don't want to make myself worse though... next week is our last hard week for our 10 Miler training, before tapering off that last week before the race.