It sucks kissing a Goal goodbye.

Well -- I'm being forced to concede that the half-marathon is slowly becoming a lost cause for me.

I was in the hospital yesterday for a wicked-bad case of bacterial tonsilitis --- today I'm lying on the couch mustering all my energy to drink 1/2 a cup of water an hour and swallow down my huge amounts of antibiotics and painkillers. I can't open my mouth -- and running is a distant concern right now.

I'm still deciding about what to do about the half. I KNOW at this point I'm not going to be in good form for the race ----- there's no way I'm going to hit my 2 1/2 hour goal time. I'll likely end up running regardless, and extending that goal time to around 3 hours -------- but it's still dissapointing that I won't be able to run my best race that day. Especially since I've been working toward this for so long.

I have to keep reminding myself that there WILL be other races - and that the fact that I'm sick doesn't make this accomplishment worth any less..... but it's still sad :(