Nasty Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got a 9.5 mile run in on Sunday for the Lynn Woods Stone Tower Trail Race then by Monday morning I had a nasty cold. Fearing Swine Flu I took off Tuesday from work, it has been getting better but I have not run. So far I have taken Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off from running. I think I could manage a run today but I have some serious congestion. Last year I had a similar cold and I pushed through it and developed a nasty bronchial infection-which was nearly pnemonia. It is getting down to the wire now with the Marathon on Sunday. That gives me 3 days to clear this up. Not how I wanted to be going into this thing. This is turning into an unplanned sit on my ass taper and I feel myself getting slower by the minute. I will need to go on a run today just to see how I feel. It drives me crazy, because I always felt like I could just run these things off (I never missed a practice rowing in college). Maybe it just age, but I am learning the hard way that I need to throttle back or else I really take a few steps backward.