I just found this draft hanging around figured I would post it up rather than deleting it even though it predates my last entry.

Last week was a bad one. Coming off of the good run at the rec way the previous Saturday I didn’t manage to get a single run in all week, I even fell off of my yoga and core work that I had been doing religiously since the VRAA started. Starting Sunday night I felt somewhat nauseous and that feeling lasted through most of the week. It came and went in waves, leaving me unsure as to whether I was actually sick or not. I left work early on Monday (a day I had wanted to go for a run) and wound up sleeping most of the day and night away. I woke up in the middle of the night still nauseous and threw up finally. I called out of work for Tuesday at that point, but unfortunately it didn’t do much to relieve the nausea. I slept for much of Tuesday as well, again alternating between feeling ok and waves of nausea and dizziness, particularly after I ate food. Wednesday I decided I had to go to work since I hadn’t been sick to my stomach again since Monday night, but the same bad feelings kept coming through the next couple of days. Friday I finally decided that maybe I should see a doctor, and was prepared to go in Saturday morning but I woke up feeling good and have been fine ever since. Weird illness, glad it’s over though I wish I knew what had caused it, the dizziness was not fun to try and work through.  This all started after I tried a new weight routine Sunday morning which has somewhat scared me away from my weights and I haven’t picked them up again since that day.  I’m trying not to be too hard on myself since I was pushing myself harder in more directions for the VRAA than I had been previously and if this was my body’s way of saying give me a break then I’m certainly going to listen to it.  It was just a shame that this happened in the last week of the competition when I would’ve really like to have been putting up points for my team.  As it was though, it looked like with the sudden gusto that I had thrown myself into the yoga/core/weights/xtraining stuff I had actually outperformed the BAIT level I had signed up for, very surprising considering my running has been so sporadic with the weather and such.  All in all the VRAA was a great motivator and I look forward to the next one in nicer weather where I can really get out there and run, because that’s what this really is all about, the other points were just icing on the cake.  It would’ve been nice to win, but I’ll be satisfied with our middle of the pack finish for this time at least.  Now to keep the training mentality going when I am again without a group to motivate me onward.