Jerry Powell

Eric... In an elite coaching seminar several years ago, Arnie Baker

pointed out that there is nothing inherent in training that will make

a COLD worse. In fact the exercise, because of increased blood flow,

elevated body heat, faster metabolizing of nutrients (and elimination

of waste) may help you get over it. All this providing that you

avoid increasing the load on your immune responses by incurring

fatigue! I'm not sure how exactly you do this, but I'm passing it on.



Remember too, that it's not training that leads to "overtraining"...

it's failure to adequately rest.



Jerry







At 7:21 AM -0800 2/4/02, eric.k-@kingdesign.com wrote:

 

I got a slight bit of the sickness last week. my wife and two kids are all

pretty sick. they are coughing like mad, have body aches, fevers and runny

noses. I don't feel nearly as bad but I still have stuffy nose,

headache/nasal pressure, occasional cough but no fever. Friel says if the

sickness is above the neck it is ok to ride lower intensity rides. below the

neck I should stay home. I don't want to be an idiot and make myself worse

(which is my tendency) but I don't want to lose any more fitness than I have

to. suggestions/help please.



eric

David Johnson

You are going to lose more fitness by training now and getting

sicker....thus forcing you to take more time off the bike. If you feel you

must ride, ride inside all dressed up (tights, long sleeve jersey, hat etc)

on your trainer. Stay off your bike outside until you feel 100% better...or

else you risk getting sicker. Your goal in the next few days is not training

to get faster, but to get over your cold as fast as possible.....



DJ



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Subject: [OBRA Chat] sick: to ride or not?

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 07:21:06 -0800



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I got a slight bit of the sickness last week. my wife and two kids are all

pretty sick. they are coughing like mad, have body aches, fevers and runny

noses. I don't feel nearly as bad but I still have stuffy nose,

headache/nasal pressure, occasional cough but no fever. Friel says if the

sickness is above the neck it is ok to ride lower intensity rides. below

the

neck I should stay home. I don't want to be an idiot and make myself worse

(which is my tendency) but I don't want to lose any more fitness than I

have

to. suggestions/help please.



eric



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eric.k-@kingdesign.com

I got a slight bit of the sickness last week. my wife and two kids are all

pretty sick. they are coughing like mad, have body aches, fevers and runny

noses. I don't feel nearly as bad but I still have stuffy nose,

headache/nasal pressure, occasional cough but no fever. Friel says if the

sickness is above the neck it is ok to ride lower intensity rides. below the

neck I should stay home. I don't want to be an idiot and make myself worse

(which is my tendency) but I don't want to lose any more fitness than I have

to. suggestions/help please.



eric