Powering through. Feeling good, even if my throat, nose and head don't completely agree.

Well.  I decided to attack the cold.
I loosened the reigns on the calories.  Ate a bit more lunch.  Had I think my all time high in the last 4 months of about 2600 calories(did that yesterday too).
But started feeling a little better.

Decided to do my run down at the park.  WOW...  Flat surfaces with grip are SOOO much easier!  It's nice to see the hills and snow/ice are paying off!  So, I did just under 7 miles, but it did feel like an easier run even though I was also going faster than I do on the hills.

Since then I've kept up the feeling better-ishness.  I still have some random throat, nose and head pressure issues, but I'm not feeling dead-ish as I was a couple days ago.

Did my run this morning in the usual hills.  Over 7 miles.  No stopping.  (well I walked for 3 minutes in the middle for the "slow" period it told me.  Was nice that my seasonal road has mostly melted so it's not a sheet of ice!
I really think it seems like giving blood has about a month period for me to recover(though apparently I did up the intensity and duration at the same time, so there might be a bit more to it).  Because the last couple weeks have felt SOO much better.  I've caught myself this morning going "Oh, look I must have already gone up that hill"(realizing it was behind me now) whereas for a few weeks there it was "UGH...  I'm walking for a bit"(most all of the uphills) and I was just out of breath and energy quite quickly.

So...  Yeah.  I'm feeling good.  Not really worried about the road race stuff.

I DO still really need to get some obstacles set up so I can actually try some of this OCR stuff I'm going to be doing and see just how badly I need to get my upper body strength increasing!