Hell Week

This has been one crazy week!

It all started last Sunday as I was hoping to get a long run in before beginning my marathon taper. Having pushed off the run to get in the Charlotte Half Marathon, I thought a nice 20-mile morning jog would be a great way to cap my training. Then, I woke up. My stomach felt like a stampede was heading through, and I returned home before even starting my run.

I should have known that when I fell back to sleep for three hours, the run was doomed but I felt better around two o'clock and thought "hey, let's go". A bad idea gets worse. Now a run in the 85 degree heat is coming - and a long afternoon of puking set me up for a week that I really needed my "A" game.

By Monday morning I felt better and kicked off my team meeting at work with a great series of discussions that helped me feel better about puting off the impending Health Policy Final due Sunday night. Monday turned into Friday and the week had passed with little advancement on my final.
Saturday proved to be the turning point. In a desperate effort to atone for my ill fated run last weekend, I had two solid performances during the week and nailed a PR at the Skyline CPCC 5K. I ran the course in 21:38, better than 7 minute miles!

The majority of Saturday night was spent nailing down my final with a brief interruption for a sunrise 11-miler Sunday morning. After my run (the last long run before the Pig) I settled down for a push to the finish on my paper. As I update this blog, the submission has been in to the professor for a solid 23 minutes - 20 minutes ahead of the deadline...

So now you know why the updates have been non-existent this week. Hopefully, I will do a better job this week and will also try to post an update on the marathon...one week from today. In the meantime, I better get started on my Strategic Management Final - it's due Tuesday by midnight!

Medical University of South Carolina

College of Health Professions