I wondered how all the sufferers of that horrible flue / cold bug that was going arround are getting on? I have been back to training for a week now after about 18 days off. The cough and other symptons have gone, but my resting hr is still 7-10beats above normal . My legs feel a bit leaden I have been creeping along on the bike. Hopefully my fitness will return quickly and the excess kg’s I have put on will soon shift. I hope everyone else is getting back into training.
I guess I was lucky. It took less than a week to get over mine. Here’s what I did that must have helped:
- drink lots of OJ, 2) eat lots of strawberries, kiwis, and papayas, 3) take vitamins, 4) get plenty of sleep, 5) lead a low-stress life for that week, and 6) take decongestants and anti-fever medication, 7) lift weights and do yoga/Pilates indoors, 8) sweat out my fever, and 9) get really angry about this damn virus. I think the virus got scared and left my body…
Just look at it this way: we just got immunized for a year! Rock on!
What were the symptoms start to finish?
Woke up with a slightly sore throat on friday resting HR only 2beats above normal so did an easy 1hr turbo before work. Throat worsen through the day felt very rough by evening nose was streeming. A bit achey and stiff with a head ache. Then started on chest. nose and throat improved, but I had an annoying cough and rattly chest. coughing not very productive - phlem mainly clear with occasional yellow bits - by 2nd week some red spicks of blood in it. Cough warsened though did become more productive, chest quite sore - probably a result of the coughing + sore around diaphram from continal coughing.
Off for 8 days… just getting back into it… HR walking around my house getting ready to ride was 100, so I’ve been going really easy to keep Hr in check. Biggest thing I lost was flexibility and I gained some weight. Scared to see where I’m at in the pool since I’ve been out for 2 weeks w/ all the sinus problems.
Yep, that’s the one I had too (except no blood specks). I was off work 1 day, but it took 4 weeks to really kick it. I still have an intermittent cough. Last week, which was week 5, I was finally able to run at my usual or better pace, and the resting HR was back to normal. I swam and rode thru it all, but barely ran. Even swimming was tough for two of the weeks.
My fitness is better now than before I got sick. I think partially because I hardly ran, but did heaps of swimming, kept the lungs in good shape. Plus the rest from not running, that didn’t hurt 
Just kill me now. It’s now 12 days, and my head is so full of goo I can’t breath at night. Big, yellow mess when I blow my nose. Today was last day of antibiotics. Haven’t done a thing in 12 days. I need agent orange to help. Somebody pleease!!!
ugh…I swear it takes a month to get back to the fitness levels you were at before getting a nasty cold. I tried working out through my cold, since it wasn’t in my chest…but that last few days I’ve had no energy, so I haven’t bothered. I don’t think there’s anything worse than the first few workouts after getting over a bad cold/flu. A bullet to the head sounds more appealing
I didn’t get the flu bug but have been fighting a cold for a week or two started the day before Ironman U. I oded on vitamin c to try and hold it off. Worked pretty good. Then I got caught 4 miles from home on a two hour run in freezing rain. It’s back. Seems to have moved to my sinues this morn.
not as well as i’d hoped.
ATB must be coming up because i’m getting a f*&$ing cold! 2nd this winter (damn coworkers with germ magnets) so far just a sore throat and starting with the stuffy head. i’m guessing hunting for old people in the cold the other night with the resulting 4hrs sleep didn’t help. :-\
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Let’s see, on Sunday I had to quit riding the drainer after 30 minutes because I was so winded. On Monday, I ran a 5k on a flat course and thought I was going to die. My legs are still sore. And on Tuesday my sets of 300 yard free in the pool was going slower than my 1/2 IM pace. The idea of doing 2-a-day workouts makes me want to barf.
I survived the cold that was going around, but the flu just kicked my behind.
People! You don’t want to be stressing your bodies out. You want to be giving your immune systems the best ammo to fight this thing.
That’s not to say you should just sit on your asses for weeks on end eating bonbons. But getting cold and wet doesn’t help! Good God!
So most of the regular ST’ers know I now have two extra kids in my family. This has been great, except that it also increases the chances of getting the bugs that comes with having two more kids in elementary school. All four kids have been or are sick as we speek. My wife has been coughing up gobs of yellowish green stuff and I was just suffering from a bad case of a runny nose…nothing in my chest so my workouts have continued, that is until this morning when I woke up I felt as if I had one of Tom D’s cat stuck in my chest.
Actually I’ve been pretty lucky as I interact with over a 50 kids on a daily basis. I do however buy the purell sanitizer in the jumbo ecomomy size bottle. Goes like this, “hi little joey, good to see you, give me 5”
After 7 days of fighting it, I went to the doctor and got antibiotics(which I hate to do). I left work after 4 hours yesterday and went in for a short time today and then home to bed. Acute Sinusitis is what the doctor said. I have not had a training day other then 1/2 mile swim and a 3 mile run when it started. Very fatigued also. I am hoping that it does not go as long as 3-4 weeks. I am getting anxious about my training.
Been almost three weeks now and it turned to pneumonia. Finally starting to sleep through the night now, only waking up once or twice with coughing fits. Went to walk the dog the other day and had to stop in the middle of the field because I couldn’t catch my breath. So tired all the time, I’ll sit down at the computer and ten minutes later my head is lolling side to side.
My trainer is sitting ten feet away taunting me. I’m going to try a really slow ride tomorrow.
J
I had just finished my winter’s rest, 4 weeks of nearly no exercise but some fast walking, raquetball, and climbing; and a few medium rides a week. I got one week of base in, when it hit. I got multiple sicknesses at once. First was the 3 day flu bug, with one day of vomiting and fever and shakes. No energy (which felt surprisingly like the bonk at the end of my first Half-Iron.) Just as I was recovering from that, I got the other bug, with headaches, stuffy/runny nose, sore throat, and chest congestion. AI stopped all workouts, and after week 1 the head began to clear and the lungs took a turn for the worse. Hacking coughs and clear/yellow thick mucus every 15 minutes, with resultless coughs every 1-2 minutes. It kept on for another full week, and has tapered near the end of week three. I’ve now had WAY too long of a break. Luckily my motivation is high and I can’t wait to get back to a regular workout schedule.
zicam at the first sign of a cold, people.
*Hey all *
*Well I should knock on wood as I write this as I just don’t get sick any more. *
And I attribute this to diet. Now calm down every body who dose not agree with this but, since I have been on the Zone dietary program I just don’t get sick! I use to get two or three colds a year now it’s one maybe. And the only difference is how I eat.
Just something to look at.
*Have fun out there and get well soon! *
Dan…
damn cough has been harassing me for two weeks now. Not even biking to work since my gf says the cold dry air is bad for me. sigh.