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Dang, you really got crushed. This same thing (not even being able to finish a run) happened to me after a long-ish illness a couple years ago (which tragically coincided with a family vacation to Hawaii). Anyway, it did take a good 2-3 weeks to feel normal plus more time to get fitness back.

Have fun on the trip, and happy 4th to you and Andrea!

I think I remember you posting about that. Did you ever find out what was wrong? Obviously I don't have acute food poisoning as I originally thought.

I know it's going to take some time to bounce back. My fitness was near a low point to begin with, so I'm going to have to essentially start from square one when I feel better. I had my heart set on Chicago but that might be creating an unrealistic timeline now. In any case, I'll cross that bridge when I can get back to finishing a 60 minute run :-)

Happy 4th to you guys as well. I imagine that in Texas you blow stuff up and eat BBQ all day?

Geez, way to stereotype us. Actually, yeah, I just came home with a couple slabs of ribs and a hundred bucks worth of fireworks.

I think I thought it was low iron for awhile (actually Andrea suggested it) possibly brought on by summer running/sweating and lack of food for a week. So I did take in a lot of red meat and iron pills for awhile and it somewhat coincided with returning to full strength, 2-3 weeks later. So that might've been a possibility, but I recently had my ferritin level checked....it was 263. So unless my iron levels swing insanely over time (I guess it has been almost 2 years), it was probably just a super-strength-draining illness. That's the scientific term.

263?!?! I've never heard a runner say a number that high. Are you just chewing iron chips during the day at work?

It was a little surprising...I asked them if it was possible they left out a decimal point, but no.

Get well soon Jake.

Eat a lot! You're young so all it will probably take is one good meal and a good nights sleep and you'll be fine.

I was going to race tomorrow but Jon Kotter called tonight and asked me to do a long run with him so I agreed.

Ann's taking abby out to Magna for the 5k.

I'm winning the war on sleep, but I'm not quite at the point where eating a lot is a possibility yet... without causing a host of other problems that I won't go into on the blog. Think beet juice poisoning symptoms for a solid week straight!

Jake, Read earlier reports about the illness. I think what caught my eye was an entry about you cutting a run short or not feeling well - which totally threw me as I have never read anything like that before on your blog (other than an allergic reaction to some flowers during a race a year or so ago I guess). Sorry to hear the illness is still an issue. Hope you get better soon.

i hope this doesn't mean you had to skip out on the dash. someone has to run the dash! you might feel a bit better if you cut back to 2 elk smoothies/day.

seriously, i hope you feel better soon.

No dash. I would have had a hard time accelerating beyond 8:30 pace without my walking sticks. Jeremy Wariner unexpectedly showed up and won... 40.4, in trainers.

Sorry this week sucks so much with sickness. Sounds like no fun at all.