Jinx

I ended up staying home sick today. It's a rest day for walking, but I had been planning to ride my bike into work for the Bike Commute Challenge which began today. It's also a upper-body weightlifting day. No such luck. So I spent the day sleeping, which I must have needed. Disappointing though -- where's my endorphin rush?

I had a great training day on Saturday -- 12 miles, the first 4.5 miles straight up hill -- and I ended up with a 15:25 pace, incredible for me. But since then I've felt run down, and the humidity and warmth hasn't helped any. I did about 2 hours of slow walking both Monday and Tuesday, each time feeling like I was just dragging myself.

One very cool thing happened yesterday afternoon -- I got my Portland Marathon training shirt. It's even prettier than it looks on the website, and it's made of a nice technical fiber fabric. Woohoo! My coworkers seemed to think I had already walked the marathon, and that this was my finisher's prize.