Well, the past week I figured out how to go backward in my rehabilitation, and use up all the extra depends diapers I still owned. Last Tuesday, I did my best hill repeats so far post surgery. Wednesday night, everything changed. I noticed that I was feeling tired, and it hurt to breathe. By the end of the workout, I was sneezing, coughing, and filling up my depends pad to the overflow point. At first, I thought it was allergies, but no, I had caught a cold. All the progress I had made with my incontinence issue was gone. If I sneezed or coughed, I more than dribbled. I even ended up going to the depends underwear for sleeping. I did all the usual stuff to get rid of a cold, and the symptoms improved quickly, but I still have that nagging little cough, it just won't go away.
Now before surgery, I would have been running again already, as I always found running to help clear things up. Now I'm waiting longer, I want to be able to run and not overflow my depends too quickly. This is something that I never considered as a potential problem. I know losing a week of training is not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but it has been very frustrating. It seemed like things were improving quickly, only to be stymied by the common cold. The bright side is I will be well rested for the Tejon run on April 22nd.
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