It's 8:10 pm eastern time, and I leave tomorrow at 4 pm for our regional meet this weekend in Clarion, PA. If anyone can respond to this question before I leave, I'd be truly grateful.
The basic question is this: I have really worked hard this season, and got into the best shape of my peri-geriatric years (I'm 49), but 2 1/2 weeks ago I caught some kind of cold/virus from my 9 year old son, and I feel like I am still at best 65%--still have sore throat, sore body, fatigue, plus cough and congestion.
I'm going to swim in the meet anyhow, but my emergency request for advice is this:
How do you optimize your performance when you're sort of sick? I am more worried about the 1000 and 500 than the shorter stuff (the rest is all 50s and 100s and 1 25.)
Any words of wisdom? Please don't tell me to scratch the meet--if I was feverish, I would probably do so. I'm just looking for ways to make the best of a less than ideal situation, and the swimmers on this forum have provided superlative advice in the past. Thanks in advance.
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Your performance will vary by event. I don' t think it will be predictable, so if you really stink in the first thing you do, don't assume the rest of the swims will be that good, or that bad. Just give it a try.
Take a mess o' vitamin C before you go to the meet.
Take warm clothes and some pads/blankets/chairs so you can really lay down and snooze between events.
Your physical reserves are good even if you feel bad.
Chicken noodle soup is reputed to cure all ills.
Swim fast!
Your performance will vary by event. I don' t think it will be predictable, so if you really stink in the first thing you do, don't assume the rest of the swims will be that good, or that bad. Just give it a try.
Take a mess o' vitamin C before you go to the meet.
Take warm clothes and some pads/blankets/chairs so you can really lay down and snooze between events.
Your physical reserves are good even if you feel bad.
Chicken noodle soup is reputed to cure all ills.
Swim fast!