twiddling my thumbs

so i just decided after a bit of contemplation that i can't run in the morning. i am slated for 13. i have been trying to figure out where exactly to run for the past few days since there seem to be 5K's, 10K's and even a trail half-marathon on the courses i usually run. does this mean i could not run there? of course not. it just means i don't want to. and then one of my favorite routes is getting torn up. literally ripped up with tractors and bull dozers. there are piles of dirt and chunks of asphalt all over. great for plyometrics perhaps but not for just straight running. (and as an aside perhaps not the best laid plan by the city with the hometown marathon coming up in oh, two weeks and yes this is on the ten miler course...).

anyhow i had narrowed down my options and figured out that i could run around lake como nine times. or i could start super early avoiding the 5K madness hit a few hills and run relatively close to a course i like along the river. but it is not meant to be. at least not right this moment. i have a been a bit under the weather. not a huge deal to me. until tonight when i suddenly have a fever. yuck. i could run with it. but i am trying to be smart about this and not run myself down and let it mutate into something else with only two weeks to go to portland. problem is i don't really know what to do when i am not running on a saturday morning...so we will see how that goes. maybe i will be miraculously better.