My take? Stop training and get better, there are other races this year you can get ready for. You should be able to take a couple to a few days and just relax without losing your high level of fitness. But with you being sick your not getting in good workouts anyways, its just causing your body to use the fuel for the workouts that you could be using to fight off the rest of the infection. Just my two cents....

Of course, I'm no expert, and I don't know your goals in the race, but I would say the best thing is to rest up really nice right now. The sooner you rest and recoop, the sooner you can get back into the remainder of your training.

The flu should only last about a week, at the most, from what I understand. I'm assuming you've been training all week with it anyway? If you stop now, drink, rest, sleep, sleep more, you should get better quite quickly, then have some little time to do some training and then take a reduced taper.

Or, just consider this the taper phase, but during the taper now, you should make sure to keep up your strength (once you get better). You're naturally going to feel weaker immediately once you recover.

+1 to cayman
Get well and rest...you've plenty of training in the bank. Race day will take care of itself.

Thanks a lot to everyone.

I will take a rest and resume training when I feel well, hopefully next week. You are all absolutely right. I shouldn`t lose much by taking some rest. I will tell you how everything went in the end.

By the way, Swimmer, I did take a recovery week every three weeks. My flu came because the weather here is hot, dry and the air conditioning at the office is too cold.

Thanks, I feel better already
Carlos