Day 20: New Years Eve

Still no training. Its amazing how much staying in shape and working out is a part of my life because my mood is brought down so much when I haven't done any cycling or running or weightlifting. And it hasn't even been a week. My headache is gone now, but I've got a cough coming on and it seems to be steady and not too bad, so hopefully it goes away like that and doesn't progress anymore. I had Bronchitis when I was 2 unfortunately so every time I get even the slightest cough it turns into an extremely serious one, and takes a while to go away. I guess I'll just have to see what happens and try to enjoy the rest of my weekend. Not sure when this sickness is going to end...

Day 19: Fighting Through

As far as health goes, today was basically the same except I didn’t wake up as many times during the night, my fever didn’t feel quite as bad, and my nose was a tiny bit better but my headache was still pretty much the same. I’m definitely sick, there is no denying that, now its just a question of how long I am going to have to fight through it and what I can do to help my self the most. Obviously there was no working out yesterday except for a bit of walking into town. Today was the same in that sense as well, I don’t have a car or my bike with me so walking is what I’ll be doing pretty much this whole trip and I’ll be doing A LOT of it.

Day 18: Sick…Again

Well, after waking up probably about 20 times during the night and feeling like I had a 105 Degree Temperature every time I woke, sweating bullets, I am pretty certain that I have caught something…again. When I finally woke up in the morning (when people are actually supposed to wake up, not 20 times before that throughout the night) I felt like absolute crap. I couldn’t breathe out of my nose at all and I had one of the worst headaches that I can remember. I had breakfast and took some Vitamin C medicine and a few pills of Ibuprofen. This really didn’t get better at all throughout the day. We’ll see how tomorrow goes.

Day 17: Run + Weight Training

I woke up the morning not feeling all that great, and with a really stuffy nose where I could barely breathe out of it. Thankfully, it went away within about a half hour of getting up, which is unusual for me. After recovering from the tiny bit of morning sickness and getting some food in me I took off for about a 2.5 run to the gym where I was going to be working out. The run took me around 20 minutes or so because I had a fairly heavy backpack on (which I really do not recommend…ever.) So, obviously the run was pretty slow and relaxed, not very hard at all, except for the stupid backpack but it was a good warm-up before the gym.

At the gym I focused on maintaining a relaxed but difficult circuit of exercises. I went from abdominal work (regular crunches, planks, extended leg raises, and cherry pickers) to arm strengthening (20lbs curls, and tricept-curls) and then to some leg strengthening (leg press with about 160pbs of weight.) I did a lot of each of these exercises with anywhere from 10-20 reps for each set. I did at leas 3 sets for each for the exercises and I really didn’t do the exercises in any particular order at all. Whenever I felt comfortable enough to move onto the next exercise then I did.

I’m glad I got myself out to do this even though I really wasn’t feeling 100%. I really hope I don’t have sickness coming back, especially not on my vacation. But, if that’s the case then I’ll just have to deal with it. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. We’ll have to see how the week goes on.