World Cross is on Sunday of which I am feeling very ill prepared right now. Did my last workout today and did not feel like myself. I was supposed to do it yesterday but was laid up in my hotel room with something, food poisoning most likely. Luckily I never threw up but nauseous all day with a sensation that if I did stand for any length of time, stuff was going to come up. I was debating the fact that it could be food borne as no one else had it but then Brent brought up a good point that all my bacteria in my gut was gone from the antibiotics the last couple days and it could have been something everyone else was able to handle. It’s plausible anyway. The worst of it though has been the hiccups I’ve had all day for some reason. They’re driving me nuts. It’s felt like a rough couple weeks with colds, travel and food poisoning, now I’m just hoping to feel normal by Sunday. The course is going to be deceptively difficult I think. At first look it seems pretty easy with flat well manicured grass it might as well be a track race. A bit fast for my liking, but it does have two small climbs per lap and three sets of three log jumps. Which if you multiply that by six laps we’re talking 12 hills and 54 jumps. That’s pretty significant and is going to start wearing on people the last two laps. It’s a beautiful course through the Umbrella Pine forest. It’s supposed to be pretty warm and sunny on Sunday so the shade the trees provide will be quite welcome. Well, hoping for a good night sleep tonight, another day of rest and normalness by Sunday so I can run a good race. Our men’s team is solid but with Kenya 1, Kenya 2 (Qatar), Kenya 3 (Bahrain), Ethiopia, Uganda, and Eritrea it’s tough to break the top six but we’ll see what happens. Watch out for our women’s team that is super strong and could repeat on their performance of last year’s bronze medal or possibly even better.