I have a cough and the snot that you would normally find in the nose is down in my lungs. When I cough, it is as if I am blowing my nose and I spit snot. Sorry to be so graphic. Does this happen to anyone else, and if so, do you train though it?
It does - is right now, actually, and I don’t… it’s been a week and a half of no SBR for me…
Snot didn’t stop the guy I rode with last Saturday. He was blowing snotrockets all day and was spitting lung cheese on anyone unfortunate enough to be behind him in the draft line. So no, don’t you dare let your snot get in the way of your training.
once it goes from my nose/sinus to my chest i rest a couple days and take vitamin C and Fenugreek, for me at least it really helps get rid of the crud in my chest.
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Cold in the head: Get out of bed
Cold in the chest: Get some rest
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I have never rested in the past. However, this year I am trying the rest method. I have the same sickness now and it is killing me to take it easy.
Everything I read says rest, but for some reson I have a hard time believing that the Pros, top AG and Elites rest through sickness.
I know if I don’t rest the sickness could get worse. One time I trained hard through it and it progressed into brochial pheumonia. It’s frustrating when this comes about when training is going so well. I was 195 lbs 6 weeks ago. I’ve brought my run mileage up to 80km/week and my weight has dropped to 182lbs. Then wammo…I get sick like this. I have found that it takes a long time to get better once it has progressed to the chest.
I’m not a doctor, but every time I get a chest cold I train extra hard. When I get well, its like I’m super fast!
I have a chest cold now too and I haven’t SBRed in 3 days. I’m going a little crazy because up till now my training has been going really well and I’ve been really consistent this fall. (I got the cold from swapping germs with my boyfriend who’d been traveling in the South Pacific for the last two months.) This is the longest I’ve taken off in 3 months, but I live by the above-the-neck/below-the-neck rule. I’ve trained through about 6 headcolds this fall and as a rule training always makes me feel better (I chalk that up to blood moving lymph around the body during exercise, elevated temperature, drinking more water, more oxygen circulation, all that good stuff).
I’m trying to enjoy my unplanned time off and today I actually felt really inspired and motivated to get back to training sometime in the next few days. But I’m careful and I know if I went back to training too quickly and got pnemonia or something, I’d never forgive myself. A stitch in time saves nine, IF IT’S IN YOUR CHEST, TAKE IT EASY!
Of course, some girls’ chest colds are worse than others.
Red or Brown Sputum - no
Dark Green Sputum -no
Light Yellow sputum - yes
Cool, you have color coated sputum! All of my secretions are a boring greenish brown with the occassional swirl of bubly red.
Use the Neck Line Rule.
Congestion above the neck line and you can work out.
Congestion below the neck line and you go to bed.
Use the Neck Line Rule.
Congestion above the neck line and you can work out.
Congestion below the neck line and you go to bed.
That’s what my doctor said, too. (FTR, she’s a serious runner.)