Betrayed!!!

Well perhaps betrayed is a little over the top. It is funny how sometimes your body just seems to fall into a hole though. Mentally I am feeling okay, but I am picking up on subtle signs that perhaps my body is requesting a break. Subtle like a sledge hammer.

I am not feeling too bad, but at the same time I have given myself another day off today. My hamstring had graduated from being painful to feeling stiff. That is pretty similar to how my last hamstring twinge progressed and that recovered fairly fast. So that is reassuring. I am feeling reasonably positive about it at the moment.

I am not feeling too bad on the cold front either. I have stayed home from work and had a sleep in this morning (does 5:10am count - thanks for that son). I also managed another nap this morning. Everything I have read says that the only really effective way of getting over a cold is staying hydrated and resting and so that has been my aim today. At the moment my throat is a little sore, but I am not feeling stuffy in the head or anything, which I am taking as a good sign. I am sort of hoping that by tomorrow I will be feeling a bit better. I suspect it will either be that, or feeling much worse. Door number one please. It would be unusual for me to get away with just a mild cold, that isn't how they usually go for me. It has happened once or twice before though so I am hoping that is what this is.

I am painfully aware that I am two weeks out from Albany. But I also know that taking a couple of days to get my body right is not going to break the bank one way or another. On top of that I am taking a fairly relaxed attitude to Albany. This is a race I am doing because I enjoyed it last year, more than chasing any particular result. Obviously I would like to do as well as I can, but I am not going to risk long term injury or illness for it.

If my recovery continues in the vein that I hope it will, then I will look to be on the bike in the morning. I will of course play that one by ear, hopefully I continue to improve over the course of this afternoon. I will wait and see how I am feeling tonight.