NOV OS Infirmary
Thought I'd throw this out there for those that have to adjust their schedule due to ailments.
Or, more appropriately, need to vent frustration for falling off schedule.
My case: I love staying on schedule, hate moving things around or falling behind. But, as I've gotten older, I realize that my stubborness can sabotage the next 6 months (from experience) if I let it. Last week (#7), I was so worn out I couldn't get off the couch except to go to work and go to the pain cave (successful wko's, but REALLY hard to hold). Thought it was just December Grind/Blues. Found out yesterday, I gotz da' flu. Earned myself a full recovery week (if you can recover during Christmas week with a big family). This is supposed to be a testing week and I'm just resting. I expect to pick it up next week and just follow along a week behind. I'm sure my testing will be off. But, I'm new at this, so, I don't think it'll 'hurt' my season, just drop my numbers. We'll see. I have a PM coming, so I may be retesting anyways in a couple of weeks again.
Anyway, my point is....I didn't plan on getting the flu. But it happened. I recognize that bikes and PM's and treadmills and etc. are cool, but it's the body that will make me go faster next year. And right now, I've got to baby this rig so that I can come back in a few days and start hammerin' again. No excuses, just playin' the hand that was dealt.
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Right there with you - except not quite as sick.
I'm babying a cold for the last 3 days, and wondering when exactly I'm going to get back to working out. I used to try to train through most anything - until I realized I could just take a few days off on the front end and get over it, or have a week of subpar workouts while sick, and then take another week off to really get over it. I think it's more satisfying to train until you really can't anymore, but smarter to just lay back on the front end and get over it quicker. Maybe the payoff for getting older is getting smarter??
Hope you feel better soon - and really, if there was any time to have an enforced layoff, Christmas week is probably a pretty good one. Feel better and have a great Holiday!
Sumner
merry christmas
glad i'm not alone and it's great to have others reminding me that it's a long season so sacraficing/delaying a week is more helpful than a longer term illness.
Caught something in Week 7 while in Canada and it has flat laid me out since then. It's been about 8 days, a trip to the doctor, meds, and still not feeling all that great. Traveling next week to Florida so I'll end up being about 3 weeks of no workouts. This is by far the longest I have gone without working out in many, many years.
I did post over in the Macro thread to get some advice on how to get back into the swing of things.
I will be much more careful in 2011 for traveling.
you guys get better, its a long year, recover well and you'll know when you're ready to roll soon enough.
C
I will be a week behind for now...
@Jeff - I've haven't tested, yet! If I try (tonight or tomorrow), and I bomb, I'm gonna just wait and repeat week 8 with ya next week. If my tests go ok, I'm planning on hitting week 9 next week. I'm past looking at these tests are a gauge of how far I've come, now, it's just about getting a new baseline for the next phase.
I was on a roll through the first 6 weeks and the last 2 1/2 have been far from ideal with illness and work. Hoping to get on a roll again...
@Keith - Yikes, I hope you escape the flu! And I hope the rest of your family feels better soon.
I headed out for a run yesterday - finally back in the saddle! Felt good, if kind of heavy. Getting ready to climb on the trainer now and remind my legs how to spin, before jumping back into the OS tomorrow. (and, you know you have a gold medal husband and son when you say "can you guys move the Christmas legos over just a little so I can set my trainer up in the living room for an hour," and they say "sure!"
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Hope everyone's feeling better and back on track. And, when I'm sick I like to remember the words of a famous trainer of event horses, Jim Wofford. To paraphrase, he said you could make it to an event with a horse that was healthy but a little undertrained, but it was no good taking a horse that made every workout but was lame. I figure this applies to people too - so a bump in the road, especially in the middle of winter, is probably not too big of a deal.
I hope everyone's having a great day, and to those of you who celebrate it - Merry Christmas!
I can make it worse. 3 weeks ago I had a thing cropped off the bottom of my right foot. Haven't been able to swim, bike or run since. I've got clearance to start up again next week. Read as: come hell or high water i'm going to struggle through a run on New Year's Day.
While we're talking about injury recovery, I guess my question would be: with the better part of a month of the OS missed, should I just pick up where I left off, pick up at the current part of the OS Training (leaning towards this option), or see about joining the Jan OS group instead?
All three seem somewhat reasoanble but this Nov OS group puts me in the perfect spot for my A race next year (Eagleman).
Any suggestions?
- dhj
ps/ Happy New Year.
I'm actually checking out of the Nov OS Infirmary as I just completed the bike test a week late and the flu seems to have left my house. For those still ailing, our remedy was Pro-Biotics and this awful tasting stuff from Garden of Life called Perfect Food: Super Green Formula. Smells like fish food and tastes like your eating your lawn. My daughter's doctor says it's acidic in nature and the flu does not like acidic environments. Mix it in half a glass of water, hold your nose and pound it, then add a little water to the glass to get the remnants and chug that--still without breathing. Make sure you have something good to put in your mouth after---it's that bad, but it works!!!
@Keith: By perfect, I mean this. NovOS end on 20 March, same day as the Shamrock Half Marathon. Great end of OS test of my fitness. If I start week 1 of 12 for Half-Iron training the following Monday (or just bag week 1 of the plan to recover/recoup and then jump into week 2), Eagleman falls perfectly at the end of week 12. Just a great calendar-plan match up.
I like your idea of just re-joining in the middle. Before the Great Cutting the OS plan was going well so I have moderate hopes that starting up again won't be too terrible after a week or so to re-aclimate.
Oh, and lawn-flavored medicine: ummmm.
@All-- seems like a strong flu season out there. Hang tough, peeps!
remember the eye-opening fear/fatigue that we went thru with the first week of the OS? That's what your comeback will feel like again! But, like 9 weeks ago, you adapt real quick and after 2-3 workouts, you'll be back on track! I, also, tried testing for my comeback and I wasn't very happy with the results, so, be prepared for that. I missed all of week 8 except for the tests (done at the end of the week). on schedule with week 9, no 'makeup' workouts, just stuck to the schedule. 1 week later and I feel that I never missed a beat.
u got sick, and very busy with the holidays. that happens. This is one reason that I joined EN, to get a better grip on how to handle these exact situations!
remember to post in the Micro What to Do THIS Week thread cuz RnP may have a different take that what I threw out there.
Good luck
I'm getting better but I'm still dizzy as all hell. I'm not sleeping, so I'm on my way to the hotel gym to try to "reset" my body with some physical fatigue. Wish me luck.
So now I may try to get in one more run and bike this week if I feel healthy enough, then retest after I get back on Feb. 4th. Bummed. Hope I don't loose too much 1 1/2 weeks off. Any suggestions?