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Running with a cold

  • 04-02-2009 6:26pm
    #1
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Do many of you do this? I'm coming to the end of my second bad dose in a month and have found my training has been effected badly(6 and a half weeks to Connemara and my confidence is shot now :( ) I've seen on here a few people say they do it but I tend to cut back a lot/completely in the hope I recover quicker and get back to normal quicker but it can sometimes mean missing around a weeks worth or training...and lots of comfort eating. :pac:


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  • #2
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,087 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    Looking forward to seeing a response on this, I've struggled the last 4-5 days with a bit of a chest. Have done the mileage, but it hasn't been fun.
    I'm banging in 1mg of Vitamin C per day and seven seas multis, but energy is low.


  • #3
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    If you have any symptoms under the neckline (e.g a persistent cough) then DON'T DO IT!

    I learned a rather painful lesson last year. The pneumonia was extremely unpleasant, and would have been avoided if I had rested instead of going running day after day despite feeling awful.

    It doesn't matter how close you are to your race. If you should rest, you should rest.


  • #4
    SUNGOD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,411 ✭✭✭SUNGOD


    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    If you have any symptoms under the neckline (e.g a persistent cough) then DON'T DO IT!

    I learned a rather painful lesson last year. The pneumonia was extremely unpleasant, and would have been avoided if I had rested instead of going running day after day despite feeling awful.

    It doesn't matter how close you are to your race. If you should rest, you should rest.

    well put , i only recently heard of a local runner who was running even though he felt a bit "chesty" he ended up in hospital.
    not sure if he developed pneumonia but his running was stopped completely and a doctor told him by running when he should have rested he accelerated his sickness


  • #5
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    If you have any symptoms under the neckline (e.g a persistent cough) then DON'T DO IT!


    Oh...whoops.

    What if you have a chesty cough...surely running will help errr...clear the chest. Humour me. :(


  • #6
    Paddyontherun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Paddyontherun


    Generally, I always found that regardless of how bad the cold was I kept running and usually ran it out of my system - including clearing the phlemn off my chest you refer too. This year though in early January it back fired completely (Twice). First time togged out ran hard felt ok but a lot worse the next day so I had a forced 'break. After a few days I thought 'this time' - togged out ran hard hit the Sauna but even worse the next day. Out for 3 weeks and even the first few runs back still wasn't 100%. I am hoping this year was just a bad bout as I imagine I'll continue to run through any future colds. This weeks snow hasn't helped either. The Rotterdam preparations are severly disrupted of late


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