Enforced Rest

After last week workouts, i was feeling good and thought I should be able to rack up more time with decent workouts. I rested on Monday and on tuesday hit the pool and did 60 laps( 10 x 6 ) completing it in 1:35( minus the rest). I was really feeling good and was thinking of joining the joyriders for a mid-week ride followed by another brick run. By the evening however, I was n't feeling too well and the back of my throat felt raspy and it got more sore as the hours wore on. In the early hours of the morning, I had a full blown URTI and had to start medicating myself. WL was surprised, remarking that that was the first time I have taken meds for a flu in our 14 years of marriage. " Must be the thought of the Aviva" she quipped. I was forced to agree sheepishly. I wanted to get back into shape as soon as possible as there is a 120 km ride on saturday, one i would be most disappointed to miss. I must admit I am not 100% but I feel after 3 days of enforced rest, I am in morbid fear of my aerobic fitness ebbing away through this bout of illness. PK felt I was over-training and I probably was. I am not in my twenties and I should have been more cognizant of that.