My High School mile PR of 4:31 was set after a night of drinking "purple passion" with lord only knows what in it. I had a horrid hangover and had been vomiting all night.
My High School mile PR of 4:31 was set after a night of drinking "purple passion" with lord only knows what in it. I had a horrid hangover and had been vomiting all night.
Yeah one time in the seventh grade I got a pretty bad cold and was super congested before my final meet. I remember blowing wads of snot out my nose onto the starting line and jeering as my team mates were like gross. I dropped 6 seconds in the 3200 to a 12:16 and 4 seconds in the 1600 to a 5:51. Was a great day
I notice this too. I rarely get sick but when I do start getting a cold, it usually begins with a sore throat. And I have noticed on days when the sore throat begins, I run like Kipchoge!
Rules for racing sick,
If the sickness is in your head/throat you can fight it
If the sickness is in your chest - don't even try.
I ran my 5k PR on 1.5 hours of sleep. Not exactly sick but still felt like garbage. Sometimes not sleeping allows you to zone out in the middle of the race and not worry about the pain
Seb Coe was a gamer and came back after the flu to race well on several occasions.
Come on guys wrote:
IDK if anyone else notices this, but the 2-3 days before I get sick and the first day I get sick, I have ridiculously good runs/workouts/races.
I have noticed this too, but only the day or two right before getting sick, not after any symptoms appear. An unusually strong race or workout is an excellent predictor that I'm about to get sick within the next day or two.
What I don't know is which way causality goes. Does the body's response to a not yet symptomatic infection also enhance running performance? Or does an unusually hard effort cause the illness?