Optimistic

Well I think I might have been a little optimistic with my hopes of going running this morning. I am still not feeling great. From my brief Google powered self diagnosis, I think you could classify what I am feeling as tonsillitis. That seems a fairly generic term for when your throat is so sore it makes you want to crawl into a ball and cry like a little girl.

That sounds about right.
I am trying to be quite Zen about the whole thing. If it is tonsillitis then the chances are that there is nothing I can do about it since most cases are viral. It will sort itself out, given enough time. I just need to give it that time.

Sometimes when I am ill I am stuck second guessing myself, am I sick, am I not, should I train, should I rest. In this case there is no uncertainty. My throat feels like it is swollen up like a balloon. I know I am sick. I know that rest will sort it out. I just need to give my body a chance to get that rest. There is no point getting myself stressed or depressed about the training I am missing. That doesn't help anybody and it certainly doesn't help me get better quicker. When my body is right to train, I will know.

Besides it is not as if we are talking about a long term problem, we are talking days. Most cases of tonsillitis sort themselves out in between 3 and 7 days. I think I am on about day 3 now, so I am hoping to see some significant improvements soon. Obviously I would prefer to not be feeling this way 5 weeks out from a race. But now that I am feeling this way there is nothing I can do but concentrate on feeling okay again as quickly as possible.