I got the flu two days before Christmas and it laid me down for a full two weeks. I guess my new biome cannot do everything perfectly. It took another couple weeks to get back to where I was feeling close to normal so I wanted to test my legs in a local 5K. I have been hovering around a 19 minute 5K for a year now and had no expectations for this race. The course was an out-n-back and a little short but I threw down a sub 19 by a wide margin 18:29.

Since my flu I have been feeling exceptionally good. I have a hypothesis that flues and the fever that go with them are the forest fires of the gastrointestinal ecosystem. I hope I burned off some gunk that I have replaced with my donors biome. Mood and energy flow have never been better.

Sub 19 is not a big deal for serious runners, but for a hobby jogger like me it is pretty cool and good enough to place in my age group. Next goal will be to run a sub 40 10K and I have a long way to go to get that.

Not to throw shade on anyone but out and back courses without a timing mat at the turn around lend themselves to all kinds of shenanigans. That is all I am going to say about that. This race was my first 18:xx 5K. Woohooo!