More lamentable news from the Groothuis camp—I have been struck with a terrible sinus cold/flu for most of last week, and because I am in no imminent rush to kill myself with upping my mileage (well…not just yet, anyhow!) this past week ended up looking scarily similar to the week before.  For whatever reason I seem to be much more susceptible to contracting viruses this year.  I usually am only down and out for maybe a couple of days throughout the entire year, but in the past 3 months alone I have been hit hard multiple times with the H1N1 and other colds + flus slammed back-to-back in succession!  While I do not mind taking some time off when necessary, I really cannot afford to be sidelined any longer if I want to get my training going in order to be ready to squeeze-out a nice half marathon in early May.  The great news is that, for the most part, this crazy cold is finally on its way out!  Also, with the unexpected series of rest days I had to take, my achilles is feeling pretty phenomenal at the moment.  Both of these assuring signs can only mean one thing—get back to running TODAY!

(note: I do still need to upload my Garmin mileage totals for last week, so I will edit this post with those numbers when I get a moment.)