It's Friday and the weather could not be more perfect. Blue skies, warm days and chilly nights have been here for a few days and may hang around for a few more.
For the past nine years Fall has brought Marathons and Ultra Marathons, long back to back training runs with "clean" crisp morning air replacing heat and humidity. It became apparent yesterday that I may not be able to enjoy these mornings as I have in the past. Heading out wearing light gloves for a run it wasn't long before I could feel the Hyper-Sensitivity to the cold kicking in. Sticking my hands in the pocket of my vest helped but essentially I was done.
Hopefully this side effect from the Oxaliplatin will pass soon as I plan on running a local 5K and lead a short five mile trail run Sunday morning.
I did return later on in the day to meet my Thursday afternoon trail
running friends, but even then, I had to cut my run short as the sun set and it started to get chilly.
Certainly it won't help to fixate on what might or might not be, I realize that, however the thought of not being able to enjoy my morning runs is as hard hitting as anything else I'm going through.
The battle in front of me will certainly be physical, I can handle that, but it's what's going on between the ears that will be my hardest climb.
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