I love flu/cold relapses...........there just great!

Okay, so I haven't run in about a month and I'm really hate'n it. It got so bad last week that I actually dreamed I was running a marathon. I love running. I have a chemical need to run. But the weather in the Bay Area has been shite the last few weeks.

Yeah, I was sick a few weeks back and was recovering nicely, I thought. Well, last Wednesday morning I decided it's been too long since I've run. I stretch, do my warm up exercises, walk outside................and there's still a drizzle in the air. Fuck it, I'm going. I start running full bore, don't ask me why. I get about a mile and I start coughing up lung. Shit, I'm thinking, I'm a bloody moron. I crawl back to the place, shaking all over. I hop back into bed for a few hours. I'm back up at about 9 in the morning feeling a little better, so I put on a few layers and go into the studio.

The next morning, I can't get up at all until about noon. I go in to the studio, but don't last long. Come Friday and I am dead. Can't move. So I don't. Saturday rolls around and I still can't seem to rise until about noon again. I come into the studio and stay late, but I don't get anything done. Sunday is another day lost to sleep. Saturday was probably not a good idea.

Monday hits and I am better than I was the four days previous. Tuesday and I'm back to feeling like I was LAST tuesday. Should I run Wednesday? Naw, won't risk it. But I'm telling myself I will run sometime this week. I HAVE to! Because, seriously, I'm starting to feel like a big ball of flab.

The point of all this? Obsessivity is not your friend. I should just will myself to rest when it's necessary, but I hate not being well. Makes me irritable; which causes stress; which doesn't help me get well.

Saturday or Sunday. That's when I will give it another go at a run. I should be alright, in spite of this hacking cough.
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Sketch: A few hours altogether. Thought I would try doing some Samurai studies from my head.