Turning The Corner Feels Great.

Happy Friday Kids!! Today is the FIRST day since last Saturday (holy cow) that I felt I have finally "turned the corner" on this food poisoning thing. DANG!! As of late as last night I was still getting horrifically sick. I tried to eat a baked potato and you'd think I'd swallowed a bottle of lighter fluid. I cannot get over how awful food poisoning/salmonella is! My friend wrote me on Facebook today saying a mutual friend of ours had salmonella for 4 weeks! #Uncomfortable

Anyway, I put up that picture above because, well, I wanted to focus again on running, because even though I've been OFF for 5 days (could obviously NOT workout while in the midst of this illness), I am just SO READY to get back on it- hopefully tomorrow. What I need is an armband like above for my iPod- any suggestions for good ones?- and this makes me wonder how many runners bring a water bottle or recovery drink with them? I guess running on a trail is different. Now that I'm using this track, I have my car parked right near the track and I can keep my water etc. with me. 

Question of the Day for fellow runners: do you drink a "recovery" drink immediately after a run? I think I mentioned, as much as I am NOT doing protein shakes and supplements necessarily, I DO definitely feel in "need" after a run of "replenishing" so tell me what works for you. 

I'm going to dive into my new book from Runner's World this weekend and keep you posted on what I learn!! ;-) I'm staying in tonight- was supposed to be at a great Jonny Lang concert at House of Blues but I'm just seriously not well enough yet. While I feel that I'm finally on the road back, I'm just not there yet totally. Bummer. But tomorrow is LILITH FAIR and I'm so psyched!! WOOT! Stay tuned to my Posterous stream for photos!