Eagle, ID — When Heather and I returned from Utah, Heather was coming down with something. She ended up getting a major fever and a bad cough. Definitely seemed like the flu. I was hoping I could avoid it but there was no hope. I got sick two days later. On Thursday morning my morning temperature was half a degree higher than normal. I didn’t think much of it and continued on with the day. I went to a morning Pilates class which felt extra hard. By mid-day I felt like a fever coming on. I took my temperature and it was 100.2°. I could feel my body starting to ache. By that evening it was up to 101.6° and I knew it was the flu. I had to take the next three days off and felt the worst on Saturday night when my fever approached 104°. Fortunately my only other symptom was a headache, probably due to the fever. I had night sweats almost every night…one night I had to change twice because I was drenched.

On Sunday I felt the worst was over, but still had a decent fever. Today I felt better and my temperature stayed down all day. I rode the trainer for only 15 minutes but even that felt hard. It will take a while to build back up after a flu like that. I was kind of bummed that this happened a week before we’re scheduled to go down to Phoenix for some warm weather training, but at least it was before and not during!