Getting Sick Sucks!

Well for the second time this year I came down with an illness. On Friday I felt okay after my workout, but I was definetly a little tired overall. Then at work I started just feeling more and more under the weather as the day went on. I ended up staying later than I wanted to and by late afternoon my throat was getting noticibly sore. I could kind of seeing it coming. I like to think that this was not due to overtraining. But I did have 10.5 hours in by Friday, so that definetly contributed. So instead of getting in a great 16 hour week last week going into a recovery week, I got in 10.5 hours in 5 days and did nothing over the weekend. I could have probably ridden a little bit on either or both days, but decided against it and figured I would try (note I said try) to help out around the house.

For the past year or so I have tried to prove to myself that I am not a typical guy when it comes to getting sick. Almost every guy I know is useless when they are sick, and I am definetly in that category. My wife who is pregnant and has been sick a couple of times already is more productive when she is sick than I am when I am rested and healthy. But I have been trying to just say "Suck it up and deal, Dave". But this weekend I didn't do so well. I really should have tried to do at least a little something on Sunday. On Sunday I was taking no medicine for the symptoms and really didn't feel that bad, just a slight sore throat and congestion.

I have always heard that if you have a illness that only bothers you above the neck (head cold), that you can workout, albeit less intense. But the sore throat I had was telling me that my body was still working pretty hard to get rid of it. So I did the Zicam/Airborne and just rested. This mornings ride was definetly still affected by the cold, but it was pretty good.

One question I am wrestling with is how to treat weeks where I take time off due to being sick. Do I treat these at unplanned cutback weeks, meaning that I start a 3 week buildup again after this week? Do I just stick to the laid out plan and if that week was supposed to be a big week and did not end up being big due to being sick, so be it? For example, last week was supposed to be a big week with high volume and this week was supposed to be a cut back week. But since I was sick last week and did less than planned, should I take this week as a cut back week as well? Might shoot off an email to one of the Cadence coaches.

Oh well, enough complaining. I expect I am going to get back on track here this week.

Dave