Sat 1/31 - PM 50 minutes incl. track mile

Played myself once again. Brave but doomed effort to run 4:40, with splits of 70, 70.xx, 72, and 72.xx. Barely able to move on the last lap which might have been my slowest. The illness of ten days ago and my foolish attempts to soldier on with training and racing in the week afterward have left me in a compromised state. As ever, the hole is much easier to fall into than get out of. And as ever, this was a car wreck I should have sensed coming from much further out. I'd like to think that with the cough getting better by the day I could salvage something in the next week but that decision is out of my hands, alas. Right calf feeling particularly frayed afterward, to no surprise whatsoever.