Francine and I were sick most of the week with a cold that would not quit. I stayed home Wednesday and Thursday. An attempt at working from home on Friday was a spectacular failure.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, our whole training schedule this week was a shambles. And by shambles I mean this: on Wednesday I walked a block to the store to buy orange juice. It laid me out for about three hours. Francine got a photo of me collapsed and unconscious on the couch with two cats sitting on me, apparently because I was both warm (feverish, really) and inert.<\/p>\n
Walking a block led to collapse.<\/p>\n
Saturday, however, I was feeling a little better. Well, I was ambulatory, which was certainly an improvement.<\/p>\n
The training schedule said “20km walk with pack”. While I utterly failed to achieve that, as it turned out I was able to make it for 18km. This is the same as last Saturday (at full health), and I was inordinately pleased. <\/p>\n
And then I napped a little.<\/p>\n
Today, in between a ton of errands, we went to Snake Lake and put in about 5km, including twice on the hills loop.<\/p>\n
So even though we missed a bunch of training, I don’t think we’re horribly off where we want to be.<\/p>\n
Monday? Buying Euros!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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