Training in the Final Third of 2025

Head cold knocked me out hard again this week. I didn't make the Silvesterlauf last Saturday. That's mostly my fault for not taking good care of myself, but the I was helping my neighbor whose relationship is a bit rocky. I can relate. And this week was the fourth anniversary of dad's death - yet another reason to be emotional this season.

Today was my first run with the 6:ZH group, which normally runs weekdays at 6AM. The theme was a run following by dancing, but the "dancing" was just wall to wall people standing in a bakery with loud music. Still, the dogs and I enjoyed the run, which was at a 6 min/km pace with warmup and cooldown exercises.

This week I was laid low by a head cold that sapped my energy, but I think now I am on the mend as I am feeling fine without ibuprofen. Just a little snot production left that I'm tackling with zyrtec. I'm often taken offguard by just how much rest I need during a cold, and how it knocks me out so completely. Fortunately, if I have the capacity to listen to this signal from my body then it has the ability to fight off the infection. The cost is only an unproductive week.

Paula often joins me for evening group runs, but tonight going up the Zürichberg in the dark I lost her. She runs with us unleashed through the forest and often goes on sidequests, but always rejoins us. Except tonight. Tonight a woman found her and leashed her and called the police. Nevermind that I let the group go on without me and spent an hour calling for Paula in the forest. She was down by a farm at the edge. Picking her up at the police station later we were both relieved, but Paula couldn't understand where the rest of the group was.

Today I signed up to run the Greifenseelauf again, so I started this training schedule to plan ahead for the rest of 2025.