Ok, so far in my blog I have been able avoid writing about actually running, a fact that my wife has been pointing out for the last couple of days. So I though I would change things up a bit and write about running and in particular today’s run.
The first thing I should tell you is that today’s run almost didn’t happen. You are probably wondering which one of my many excuses I was going to use for today. Well I will tell you it was ‘too sick’. There seems to be a nasty head cold running through our house and today it got me and my wife. After waking up with our head’s feeling like they were full of cotton balls, we got the kids fed, I then took my son to his skating lessons, then to the barber for a much needed haircut, then Tim Horton’s for his staple of ‘sprinkles with donut on it’ and finally home for lunch, the last thing I wanted to do was go for a run.
Some articles you read say to not run or exercise when you are sick and just rest, others say to go hard and sweat it out. I figured I would go somewhere in between, a nice leisurely short run of about 3-4 km just to get my legs moving a bit. Funny thing happened when I was out though. I got to point where I should have turned around and instead just kept going! Not sure why, maybe it’s because it was a nice day, or the fact that a good song came on the ipod at that moment or maybe it was because for the first time that day I could breath out my nose!!! What ever it was I felt good and kept going!!
Isn’t it amazing how you can feel like garbage before you run but 99% of the time you feel awesome when you are done!! I managed to pound out 7k today, not bad for a day I thought I would pass on. After a quick shower, it was outside for the afternoon, took down the Christmas lights (brutal I know, but I am not the last on my street) played a rousing game of road hockey with my son (only hit me once in the sweet spot, if you know what I mean!) and then inside to continue packing (did I mention we are moving in a few weeks, just something else to add to my excuse list, ‘I need to pack’).
So who is right? The people that say you should exercise when you are sick or those who say you shouldn’t??? I’m not sure yet, I’ll let you know tomorrow. 🙂
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