desparately need advice! please reply immediately!

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i came down with a cold yesterday night, and now i am a little bit uncomfortable. i have swim practice in an about an hour and a half, and im wondering if i should rest, or still practice. i also have a big championship on sat. and sun, so i dont know if skipping a day of practice will affect me. what should i do? i need advice NOW because i'm leaving soon!
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  • depends how severe your cold is do you have a fever do you got the shakes it probably won't make much diff one way or the other but I'd need to know more about you and what you've done recently if you go to practice just tell your coach you're not feeling well before practice that way if it doesn't improve you can get out and tell her your feel bad and want to go home and sleep sometimes doing a very hard practice when you're sick can lower your immune system and you might get sicker sometimes you might infect your team mates rest is good sleep is good so what did you do also remember that when you're sick, you don't feel well and it's easy for those I've-ruined-my-season-by-getting-sick thoughts to creep into your head, tell your inner pessimist to shut up just remember that tapering was discovered because athletes trained hard all season, then got sick before competition and barely trained, swam anyway and did awesome sometimes i've gone to practice feeling semi sick not expecting much and sometimes i'd get in a groove and have an awesome practice ande i came down with a cold yesterday night, and now i am a little bit uncomfortable. i have swim practice in an about an hour and a half, and im wondering if i should rest, or still practice. i also have a big championship on sat. and sun, so i dont know if skipping a day of practice will affect me. what should i do? i need advice NOW because i'm leaving soon!
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  • depends how severe your cold is do you have a fever do you got the shakes it probably won't make much diff one way or the other but I'd need to know more about you and what you've done recently if you go to practice just tell your coach you're not feeling well before practice that way if it doesn't improve you can get out and tell her your feel bad and want to go home and sleep sometimes doing a very hard practice when you're sick can lower your immune system and you might get sicker sometimes you might infect your team mates rest is good sleep is good so what did you do also remember that when you're sick, you don't feel well and it's easy for those I've-ruined-my-season-by-getting-sick thoughts to creep into your head, tell your inner pessimist to shut up just remember that tapering was discovered because athletes trained hard all season, then got sick before competition and barely trained, swam anyway and did awesome sometimes i've gone to practice feeling semi sick not expecting much and sometimes i'd get in a groove and have an awesome practice ande i came down with a cold yesterday night, and now i am a little bit uncomfortable. i have swim practice in an about an hour and a half, and im wondering if i should rest, or still practice. i also have a big championship on sat. and sun, so i dont know if skipping a day of practice will affect me. what should i do? i need advice NOW because i'm leaving soon!
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