Training while sick?
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CadenceGuy posted 23 weeks ago.
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....
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swimmer52 posted 23 weeks ago.
Did you go 14 weeks straight without a recovery week every 3-4 weeks? That's a big no-no. Those recovery weeks are needed so you don't burn out and it gives your body time to properly absorb the work you've put in.
Typically people can take off 2 days without losing fitness, so don't worry. After that do some light stuff that won't stress your system too much. The biggest (and hardest) thing is to not stress about being sick. I've heard so many stories of people who got injured or sick and ended up have a terrific race even though they had a lot of time off.
My other advise is: Acai Juice.
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azmojo804 posted 23 weeks ago.
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.
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cayman posted 23 weeks ago.
Don't sweat it, 14 weeks of training doesn't disappear overnight. Take the time off to get well and let your immune system do what it's supposed to do. You'll come back strong and fresh, ready to resume where you are in the training plan. Don't make the mistake of trying to make up for lost workouts--sure road to injury.
You'll do fine come race day.
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Anton posted 23 weeks ago.
+1 to cayman
Get well and rest...you've plenty of training in the bank. Race day will take care of itself.
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kevinb421 posted 23 weeks ago.
I'm going to have to agree with everyone else, take your time and get healthy.
Your going to be a lot happier taking a couple days off and getting to 100% then training through this and ending up still sick on race day.
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Carlos Mx posted 23 weeks ago.
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
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TryScott posted 22 weeks ago.
When I got sick, I delayed my 22 mile run by 4 days, and I really regret doing it at all. I should of taken the time off, maybe ran some shorter low intensity runs. Pushing a long run when sick was not enjoyable. I'm not paid enough to train like that. In fact, nobody pays me at all to train and race!
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Carlos Mx posted 22 weeks ago.
TryScott wrote:
When I got sick, I delayed my 22 mile run by 4 days, and I really regret doing it at all.You are right. I felt miserable during the long ride I took on Thursday. Now that I've rested for three days I feel like I'm only gaining weight and losing fitness. I can't wait to start training again. I should do a tempo ride tomorrow, but I'll try with something lighter.
And I'm still not being paid for it. Too bad
My big event, an Olympic triathlon, is on May 17th. I have been training for 14 weeks now and should be peaking. Unfortunately, I got the flu a week ago, and I feel at an all time low. I can't go to bed and rest it off because I believe I am losing fitness, but whenever I finish a workout it feels like I am getting worse.
Maybe someone can give me some advice on what has worked for you. I don´t really know if I should go to rest and forget about making a decent race or consider this as my taper period and just hope that I will be ready.
Any advice?