So I decided to pull the trigger on Friday and head to the doctor. I had broken the fever days prior and the chills/body aches were completely gone. Overall, I felt much better, but my cough was sounding worse than ever and my ribs/lungs hurt constantly. The Half Marathon was Saturday morning and I just needed some professional reassurance that I could make it through the race despite some hacking. Or at least some fast-acting, heavy-duty drugs to numb my body for just over 2 hours!The verdict = Bronchitis. (And actually a bad enough case that they x-rayed me for pneumonia and lung damage!)
When I asked my doc about running the next morning, she definitely gave me the stink eye with a face that said "do I need to check you into a mental hospital?". Needless to say, I was given four prescriptions and approval to pout all weekend. I had trained so hard and was going to knock of TONS of time from my score last year. I know there will be more races, it was just a small setback for something I was counting down the days for.
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