My 1500 m race report:

I had a flu/virus of some sort that had me feverish on Thursday. I didn't sleep well, but the fever broke during the night. Iwas quite congested when I woke up. But like many days when I'm congested in the spring, I started to feel better after being up for a while and clearing my sinuses and lungs.

So I "raced". The first 500 m were dead on pace then I couldn't catch my breath and I slowed waaaaaaay down. In the end, my time was 1 min slower than what I had expected.

I'm OK with having a bad race once in a while. I'm really OK with it if I understand why. In this case, I just wasn't well. But I woke up this morning much worse. I was supposed to swim the 100 IM at around 9 AM, I was on some relays and I had the 800 free this afternoon. But I'm not going to make it. I feel worse than yesterday and with this much breathing difficulty, there's no way I can sprint, let alone do a distance event.

I'm resting today and hopefully I'll be able to swim tomorrow, even if it's at half effort. It's disappointing because I've actually put a lot of time and effort into getting ready for this meet. It's in our home town too.