Sometimes You Have Setbacks

This haa been a slow start to the training season. I am once again sick. I wish that I could tell you that I partied really hard on New Years Eve, but I was in Detroit on an overnight asleep by 9 PM so that I could get up in time to eat breakfast before the last day of a four day trip I was on for Southwest airlines.

I start every day of the year drinking an Emergen-C pack, an ELECTRO MIX pack, 1000 mg of Omega 3 Fish Oil and a Kirkland Premium Performance Multi Vitamin with minerals. I go out of my way to get at least 8 hours of sleep on the road during my trips so that the impact of changing time zones and working up to 14 hour days is not as substantial. I did not work out, or train over the last week and a half over the holidays, or over strain my body. Regardless I am sick right now and got bad enough to lose my voice.

While flying the friendly sky's 137 patrons at a time sharing recirculated air I have enjoyed the sickest year of my life. I workout regularly and try to give my body what it needs to fight off these issues, but find myself sick almost every other month. I can't seem to stay on track. This makes me very proud of how well things have gone in my training with a recovery period built in so often throughout my training. I feel very strongly that after a year I am close to an immune system on steroids. I am coming into contact with germs from all over the country and many cities that I had never been to before this year.

I am taking this in stride trying my best to make the most of it. If it was not sickness it could have been shin splints, or some other physical issue. In periods several months long of intense training there are always set backs. I'm just taking this one in stride with the rest. I hope that this is my last, but something tells me my immune system is still building up a defense against a nation of new germs.