Eight whole days without a run; that has to be the longest break I've had in the last year. Woke up yesterday morning headache-free so decided to go to work. Needed to clear out my emails and send stuff home for my entire week of working from home next week (yay). Honestly though, the day nearly finished me off. By lunchtime I was ready to keel over and was in bed by 8pm last night. This bug has totally wiped me out. But I was determined to run today no matter what - even if I could only do five minutes. Amazingly though I felt quite OK and managed to do a bit longer than I thought - and for the whole half hour I didn't sniff, sneeze, cough or have to blow my nose.

20 x mins crosstrainer
5k x run
10 x mins powerplate

Ok, so no running on my birthday, or any other day since. I have the pissing flu. I am highly annoyed about this, as I have not had flu or a bad cold since New Year, 1999. That's nearly six years. No more boasting about my robust and indestructable immune system. I now feel like a bag o' shite. Shakes, shivers, muscle aches, pounding head, throat like broken glass, nose as stuffed as a Christmas turkey and hacking away like an emphsymic miner.

Question is, can I run like this? Is it wise? Because I feel terrible in the morning, terrible in the afternoon and terrible in the evening. But there's a little window around lunchtime when I feel a little bit more like myself. After I've drugged myself up to the eyeballs. Should I risk it for a biscuit? I'm going c-c-c-crazy stuck inside this flat.