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.
Thanks, guys. I also got some advice from Bill Tingley, who said I could post his notes after the meet to see if, in fact, his words proved true. I'll let you know how things went.
BTW, my twin brother who lives in Philadelphia had one of these "supercolds" that seems to go on forever. He said he was watching the evening news and they had a segment on this, which said that it wasn't, in fact, a normal cold virus but some other sort of lingering microbe that took weeks and weeks to go away. Has anyone else heard of this? Very discouraging--I'm now entering the third week of lackluster energy, coughing, congestiong, etc.
My brother's went away in 5 weeks--so if I'm anything like his, I'm approximately half way back to health!
Thanks, guys. I also got some advice from Bill Tingley, who said I could post his notes after the meet to see if, in fact, his words proved true. I'll let you know how things went.
BTW, my twin brother who lives in Philadelphia had one of these "supercolds" that seems to go on forever. He said he was watching the evening news and they had a segment on this, which said that it wasn't, in fact, a normal cold virus but some other sort of lingering microbe that took weeks and weeks to go away. Has anyone else heard of this? Very discouraging--I'm now entering the third week of lackluster energy, coughing, congestiong, etc.
My brother's went away in 5 weeks--so if I'm anything like his, I'm approximately half way back to health!
