Runner Interrupted.

After an awesome run at the Bix 7 on Saturday, I woke Sunday morning with an intensely painful sore throat.

Which, based on previous experience means only one thing: sinus flare up.

I guess they are infections. I suppose I could go to the doctor every single time. But I'd rather save the drugs for when I really need it.

About 50% of the time I travel, I end up with one of these. It's probably a combination of too little sleep (too excited), dehydration (too excited to remember to drink water and/or to restrict consumption liquids of the dehydrating kind, e.g. coffee and alcohol), and foreign airborne particulates invading my nasal cavity (the volume breathed increased by the deep breaths taken to reign in my excitement). My most memorable flare-up? After celebrating a friend's graduation in Minneapolis, I boarded a train with a full-on sinus headache, significantly impaired hearing due to blocked Eustachian tubes, low-grade fever and a box of Kleenex that, 10 hours later in Chicago, had been turned into vessels of frighteningly green snot.

Yes, I know. Drugs are wonderful. But, in my experience, two days of pain and fatigue coupled with lots of sleep, fresh fruits and veggies and tea is usually all it takes for me to get back on my feet.

So! Today I am in the "sound worse than I feel" stage and tomorrow will bring the Bix 7 post and a brief recap of tonight's first run back after a summer sinus flare-up.

But hey, if this is the only hiccup in The (Sub)Plan, I'm thrilled.