I had been looking forward to Week 6 since I knew I could relax on mileage and would have an opportunity to run more speed work on the track in the form of Yasso 8s. I also had enough use-or-lose vacation time to take before Jan 2008 to take most of the week before Christmas off. This meant I could sleep in and then workout at convenient times.
The week started off nicely with a terrific session at the track. Higdon's plan called for 5x800s at 6:00/mile pace. This proved to be quite easy and a real confidence builder. My swim plan was to take the extra time available to me and gently up the total volume to 8000 yards.
Training was going well until I began to feel chills and body aches on Friday afternoon/evening. On Saturday I didn't have my usual soccer game. I thought since I had a good night of sleep I might as well run an 8k at race pace. Hal Higdon asked for 7 miles but I didn't think my body was up to the task. It turns out I was right. Once I finished the run (in good time) I had a resurgence of the illness I had felt the day before. It worsened over the next two days only to break for Christmas. Needless to say my training for the remainder of the week was shot.
Due to the flu I only logged 17.5 miles of running and 6200 yards of swimming in just over 4 hours. I know... Pitiful.
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