It seems like every time I begin a new block of training or a new project, I get a minor cold and bout of congestion. This time, it seems, is no different.
But, this could certainly be one of those "it's a small world" problems. i.e., If one gets a few minor colds a year (especially one with toddlers/small kids), and one begins a few training blocks/projects every year, then of course one would have a cold come along at this same time.
Of course the world is small: there's enough things and enough things to happen on and upon.
Day 1
My friend Napo is in town and always likes to run very early in the morning. He ran over to my house and we started from here at 5:30am. I ran about 5 miles with him, dropped him at his place, and then ran a combination of dusty road sidewalk back towards the house. I'd planned to go home and finish about 9/12 miles that day. Thankfully, something inside of me said to just keep going and finish off the rest of the miles.
Bit of a struggle doing that - didn't think to bring any water or nutrition - but I made it back home without much fuss.
I'm glad to have made this mistake earlier on because I never really bring any nutrition on runs less than an hour and a half. Especially if those runs are in town and not on the trail. But, since every day is at least about that length of time, I'll need to do nutrition/water on most of those runs. Better to compound that effort than the stress of going without it.
Documenting: Finished shooting and editing a trailer for the project. Showed the first round to Sadie and she said, "that looks good but I wouldn't know what you're doing if I saw it." Glad to have a loving editor!
Day 2
I'd planned (woke up for) to run with the guys at 5:30 and then go for coffee after. I woke up feeling the congestion and decided to go for more sleep. Probably a good call. But, this is one of those weird things where you might not see the positive benefits of doing something but you likely would've seen the negative benefits, so who knows.
I ran 3 miles at lunch. Ran 10 in the evening after work while Sadie was teaching at the Y with the kids.
Good day two and sluggish day two.
Documenting: I worked on a rough weekly content plan. Want to build some consistency so that A) it's easy and fun to replicate, and I like what I'm producing, and B) it sets some expectations that would lead to the ability to "build an audience."