I'm sick. Again. I can't seem to get better. I'm caught in a strange pattern. Feel scratchy, sore throat in the middle of the night, wake up feeling rotten and headache-y, also extremely weak, cancel any fitness plans because you just don' t have the strength, feel miserable for one or two days, then feel miraculously better, compete in a race or just complete an ambitious long run or cycle, then boom, repeat - wake up in the middle of the night with sore throat, etc.
I've gone to the doctor to rule out some kind of infection, but I'm fine. As soon as I hear I'm technically okay, I start to feel better, but do too much - like the 16K long run on Sunday, followed by a 70K cycle with a loop in Gatineau Park, and I'm down for the count.
Today, I'm taking it easy, but I'll admit, I'm starting to worry. it seems to me that this is about recovery. Not enough of it. Perhaps not the right kind of eating, either. I fool myself into thinking that I have really good eating habits, but delicious gourmet doesn't always mean nutritious.
Can I cycle and run? How do I approach both sports so that I'm not constantly knocked out? I don't even feel that I've done that much, especially since I keep missing runs and cycles due to illness.
It's time to start training for New York, so this is a problem I have to solve soon.
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