Day 99- Rest day Correction Day 100

Rest today, throat scratchy, eyes itchy,body aches started yest morning but against all good advice I still did the 45 min r/w in the evening. This whole week have managed to do only 3 of the 5 planned workouts. Very slow and unable to keep up the running pace for more than a min at a time. Keep reminding myself of the turtle and the hare-not that I am aiming to win a race, just to finish a run.
Thankfully felt Ok today , but was worried that would have to miss the long 6.5 mile tomorrow.

Was thinking- if this happened around the half marathon in May or the full in Oct- all this preparation gone to waste. I am sure it has happened to others, what do you do ?

Did go to GBs apt gym to see how much my actual speed is, could run on hers at 4.3mph so it means my tmill is faster by .5mph. Which is good that I am not actually running at 3.8mph and am covering more distance than 2 miles in 40 min, but it also shows me that I have not become faster since Nov when I got my speed down from 4.7mph to 4.3mph to run longer. Am I expecting things too soon- its been only 2 months since then, maybe the speed will come if becomemore regular with the workouts and train a bit faster.