I had registered for a 10 km race on Sunday, paid a whopping 20 bucks in advance to register. On the Thursday before the race I worked with someone at work who was sit, and then surprise I got sick on Friday. Massive head cold. Pounding headache, aching everything and buckets of green mucous. Couldn't get my shift covered at work on Friday night so I was even worse on the Saturday. But I thought as I didn't work on Saturday I would drive to Penticton anyway, stay overnight and see if I felt good enough to race. Well I woke up a good hour after the race had started and felt absolutely awful still and didn't do the race.
I am so glad I didn't do it, I'm sure I would have managed to wobble my way to a 45-48 minute 10 km time but I would have felt absolutely ten times worse than I did. Even without running the race work on Sunday night was a mess, I'm pretty sure I blew a litre of mucous out my nose that night.
I've never not run a race that I was registered in before. I figured it would happen one day due to an injury, but instead it wsjust the common cold that knocked me out. I feel like I have a much more enlightened view on the DNS because of this. Pushing yourself to do something when it will only cause detriment to your body wouldn't be a wise decision.
That really sucks man, sorry to hear that.
ReplyDelete20bucks? That's cheap, here in Toronto you can only dream about such love entry fees.
Oh there are some fantastically cheap race options around here. The 54 km race I did last weekend was only $30. The interior running assocation races in the interior of BC (from 5 km - half marathons) are never more than $30 and between Sept - Oct there are six 10 km x country trail races that are around $15 all within a 90 minute drive.
ReplyDeleteBetter safe than sorry!
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