Yuck!

The sickness continues to move through the house. The biggest kid (not my husband) now has it. Yesterday, I picked him up from school on an unrelated issue -- he came in from recess and was not able to breathe, so after a trip to the doctor he was diagnosed with Exercise induced Asthma -- so now I guess he goes everywhere with this inhaler. I am not sure that is what is really wrong with him, I think it was more of this flu he was coming down with. So, 3:00 am we are cleaning up rooms again! Well, for the last two days I have not gotten any workouts in...probably good actually. After my long run on Monday my left knee started to hurt, so I have had 2 days of recovery. It is a little better but I probably just went too long on my old shoes and now will need to quickly get the new ones broken in. It even hurt swimming Monday night when I was pushing off the wall. So resting I have been doing -- not really happy about it though -- kind of nervous actually, as if my Ironman bank is slowing leaking out.

I have been looking forward through my schedule and what I have for training. We will be heading out of town on vacation twice between now and Louisville. So, my plan is to ramp my training up -- 13 or 14 hours (or more if possible) going into the first vacation and then treat the vacation as a recovery week. I will be able to run (treadmill or outside) and possibly swim, though I am not counting on it. Then for the next vacation do the same thing, I am not sure at this point where I will need to be regarding hours and type of training before that one but I know I will be able to run and swim some. As I looked through the training plan I was really surprised at how close the race really is...and I still don't know what kind of route it is going to be! So disappointing! And extremely stressful, but I guess that is what makes it the Ironman. In the past before a race I did not know the routes -- all I knew was the wind direction and water temp that morning. So I guess I should really back off...and stop worrying.

So, I guess that I need some healing vibes myself that my knee gets better and that my family stops passing this flu around.

Later.