Concept2 Forum

I dont work out as much as most on this board, but I honestly love my rowing sessions and I make room for atleast 3-4 sessions in a week pretty much no matter what happens in life. After a long walk in the rain on friday, I woke up with a cold, feeling sligh backpain and overall not feeling to hot. Sunday was better, but I clearly had a cold and still not feeling 100%. I decided I did a 40 minute UT1 session, and honestly felt alot better afterwards. But during the evening, I got really clogged up and had no chance of breating true my nose. Might have been the rowing, who knows. Since they no more rowing, and I have gradually been getting better, but my nose is still clogged up and a slight headache. I would like to do a good session today, specially since we are going away for 4 days during the weekend with no access to a erg (Going to Krakow, poland dont even show up on erg finder).

What does it take for people on this board to stop the weekly training? I read on the web that as long as sickness was above shoulders you where safe (soar troath, running nose etc.), but below that (backpains, cold sitting in the lungs), it should be avoided. At this point I dont cough, my lungs feels okay but the nose is switching back and forth between running and just beeing badly clogged up. So, go for it or stick to couch?

If you're ill, your place is between the sheets.

To avoid getting that sort of thing you have to stay away from buses, cinemas, trams, school kids etc. You won't catch it out in the rain if there's no one else around. Some of the hundreds of cold viruses might be susceptible to flu vaccine too; flu is worse than the common cold.

Not ill enough to be under the sheets, but coughing and still a running nose. No rowing no since sunday, and I dont feel good at all about missing out on a weeks worth of training. Might do a slow 40 minutt AT2 session today if I feel up to it, and just cut it if I start feeling bad.

Wait a few more days. I exercised once through a cold, in the middle of summer no less, in Arizona. I could not understand how running in 100+ degree heat, I would come home chilly. Hot showers, etc. Turned out I made a regular cold into pneumonia. Couldn't exercise for weeks after that. It wasn't Valley Fever, either...suffered through that as well when I moved to the desert.