To Run or Not to Run...Not to Run...Bummer

Greetings fellow fitness friends. I suppose I should write an update about the Hot Chocolate Run from Sunday. Well, I would love to write about this run except, I didn't go. I was out of town last week at a conference and somewhere between the time I left and the time I got back, I got sick. I'll spare you the gorey details, but I'll just say it was in my lungs. Yuck! I did however go to the Expo and I have some pictures from that. I was a fun expo, but I was really bummed that I could not make it to the run. It wouldn't have been all that fun anyway since I couldn't breathe, but I did hear from a friend of mine who ran it that the run was really cold.

I got an email last week while I was at the conference regarding the run stating that the run marshal was issuing a severe weather warning. The warning stated that the wind chill temp was going to be 5 degrees F! That's cold! The email warned about frostbite and risk of hypothermia. For these reasons I was considering not running, but then I got sick. Still, I wish I could have run. I am now going to work on continuing to get healthy and get back to training for this 5K of mine in April.

Of note, in my last post I wrote about how I gained weight and was hoping that the scale would go in the downward direction to 264. I did not get that close, but I weighed myself before I left for the conference and I weighed in at 265! I was super excited. One of the perks from last week was that I did a lot of walking. I wore my wife's pedometer and I clocked 20 miles in the week and averaged about 3-4 miles per day. All in all it was a good week...till I got sick that is. Enjoy the pictures from the Hot Chocolate Expo and keep training.

Merry Christmas!