Good and Bad Part Deux!

Monday was an enforced rest day due work and family, but I didn't mind too much as I had a good run Sunday, and I wanted to do a tempo on Tuesday.

I finished work early for a change, and was home in the afternoon. The weather wasn't great, gale force winds, but it was mild enough. I got changed, and procrastinated for about an hour before dragging myself out the door. I had a nice sheltered route planned which hopefully would defend me from the worst of the wind.

One mile warmup, and I was off, into a planned 9 mile tempo at 6:40.
It started well, and the pace felt quite doable. Once I settled in, and got my breathing right, I was cruising along nicely. I was running a one mile loop, fairly flat, but obviously some of it was directly into wind, and some on my back, so I considered the effect neutral.
The first two miles were 6:34, and I tried to pull it back a bit, but I went all the way to 8 miles at pace between 6:38 - 6:34 fairly easily. I still felt very fresh at 8, so I pushed on for a total of 10 full miles at an average of 6:36, with what felt like plenty left in the tank. I could have continued for a few more miles at that pace, but I was losing the light, and I know that once I hit the 90 minute mark, performance would likely deteriorate rapidly due to lack of hydration and glycogen depletion.One final mile to cool down, was 12 miles for a very good session.
That was the good.

The bad, is that my little 5 year old girl is very sick at the moment with a nasty flu type thing. She is feeling very delicate, and cuddles from Dad seem to work wonders. Unfortunately, and probably inevitably, I caught the dose after many sneezes and coughs to the face.
It hit me rapidly today as I rushed from one meeting to the next, and when I got in the door, the couch  was all I could manage, which is from where I am writing this.
I am hoping against hope that I can fight it quickly, I am eager to try to build on my good results of late, and I would like to get a few more quality runs in before the Bohermeen half on the 13th.
This is the second illness I have had in the last number of weeks, which may be not necessarily a sign of over training, but of my work, training and life schedule in total.
I will have to watch for that.