To hell with feeling unwell!

For a week or so I've felt like I've had a cold brewing. Tired all the time and lacking any energy. Today I got sick and tired of waiting for it to come out so decided 'to hell with it' and went out for a run in the hills. If that doesn't bring the cold out then I can forget about it and get on with training!

To those who know me they'll tell you that I don't run for enjoyment with a happy smile on my face but more because I enjoy the feeling of having completed something. Thus, only about 1 in 20 runs do I actually enjoy and only 1:50 do I feel that I am really floating along. Today's run was definitely a 1 in 20 run and would have crept into the 1 in 50 runs if I had been fitter.

Sometimes I have a really good run just before I am ill and today I was slightly concerned that this was one of them (post script, not feeling bad the day after).

Started off at Sign of the Taheke which is cafe a good way up Dyers Pass but still with 100m or more of ascent. It's really easy running actually and now understand why those I see at the top of the path where it comes out at the summit of the pass usually look ok. I then moved on past Sign of the Kiwi and kept going along Crater Rim Walkway. This is all off road and although follows a well trodden path there are enough twist and turns, hard ascents and roughish descents to make it interesting all the way. Ran to the Sign of the Bellbird which was about 45mins of fairly slow running before coming back the same way.

Legs definitely feel stronger with some of the cycling I've been doing as was climbing the steep sections OK without quads crying out.

Anway, all this inane rambling is to simply say that sometimes you have to say "to hell with it" and go out there whether feeling grot or not!