Autumn Cold

[Mike Channin]

Anyone else got it?

I had a sore throat last Friday morning, and although I wanted it to just be 'rower's throat', I knew it wasn't.
Cold not really too bad, but bad enough that I'm avoiding all training.

Which brings up the obvious question - when you get a cold, how much do you back off training, and when can you resume? What do you think?

[Ian Bee]

Have muttered about this in the training thread.

Having got a relatively consistent HR monitor, when I finally recognise that a sniffle has been prolonged and no amount of wishful thinking/blaming the previous day's training can realistically explain a deficit, I have tended to back off to ut1(low 70s or less of max) /long slow in pace and slow in spm sessions to keep a gentle amount of movement going but recognise that energy needs to go elsewhere.

Not suggesting for a moment that I recognise this soon enough or that I start back up again too soon mind you.

[Iain]

I have also had the sniffles for a couple of weeks that I no longer believe to be hayfever. The standard answer is not to worry too much as long as issue is only neck up, but back right off if any chest issues (I think there is a rare but very serious risk of heart issues). Personally I think the biggest issue is mental for genuine head colds as a streaming nose and head aches reduces my mental resilience, but I think the physical impact is less than broken sleep / stress!

[webberg]

I thought is said Autumn GOLD - and I'm thinking why is Mike writing about cider?

I tend to listen to my body when less than 100% and go where it takes me.

I don't have a store of HR data to refer to when feeling a little under the weather so just not pushing the envelope is where I need to be.

Thankfully - cross fingers - I've been cold/flu free for a long while. I do however have my combined COVID/fly jab on Saturday morning and experience tells me that Sunday may be a little bit of a struggle.

[Carole S]

We both had our jabs done this morning so did a row each soon after before our arms seize up lol