Smart like you

12/24/11

So the bug was not as tough as Jen and got beaten down with a light twenty-five minutes of exercise yesterday. Unfortunately, while declining, it was tough enough to linger around for another 24 hours and so Jen chose to not do the BU mini-meet as a workout. Even a workout meet at its easiest can never be considered light exercise. It was a smart choice, made by experience and understanding. As an athlete you fine tune your relationship with your body all the time. However, with anybody, at any point in their life, that relationship is there. As an athlete, though, you work on the communication with your body daily. Instead of being young, neither in real years nor in running years as Jen is almost twenty-eight and has been running consistently since she was fourteen, and trying to race which likely would have led to a full blown sickness she opts for rest. A wise choice, unless it was the championship meet or some nonsense like that where she would have weeks or months of recovery time and if she didn't run would truly regret it or let down the team. No this was smart, by many athletes’ standards.