Skuj, I'm sorry to hear this. Is it just a head cold or is it in the chest? If it's just the head then you may feel like crap and be blowing out snot rockets, but you might surprise yourself. Just keep your mind focused and positive, drink lots of fluids and be a stubborn mofo come race time. Don't back off no matter how bad you feel. You may feel generally terrible and yet your legs might still carry you through. Nothing to loose right? Good luck!
Jerry
Here is how I felt today:
Skuj wrote:
Well that's just fvcking beautiful. I'm fitter than I have been in months. I'm going to my first "big" event in years. And now I have my first cold in eons.
It's God's punishment for your cursing language on this board. Repent, heathen!
JZ wrote:
Skuj, I'm sorry to hear this. Is it just a head cold or is it in the chest? If it's just the head then you may feel like crap and be blowing out snot rockets, but you might surprise yourself. Just keep your mind focused and positive, drink lots of fluids and be a stubborn mofo come race time. Don't back off no matter how bad you feel. You may feel generally terrible and yet your legs might still carry you through. Nothing to loose right? Good luck!
Jerry
Hey Skuj, remember Roger Bannister! He had a stinkin' cold )not in his chest though) just before his first four minute mile. He was asked if a patient came to him in his condition questioning with so much at stake if he should run or not his reply was, "I'd order him to run." Of course this was in the movie.
Jerry's right, you will be fine.
Okay, my run: Just back from a short 31:12 burn. Ten min. at warm up pace, ten min. at a good hard pace, ten warm down. Shortness due to warmer weather. Got to get acclimatized. Also, quite a bit of leg fatigue from 2 paper routes (no days off unless I request a sub from the route manager take over for a particular day) plus a third 2x a week, adding a third morning route Mon. Probably not as tiring like your 12 hr. graveyard shifts maybe?
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Good luck JayZed (Canadian) and make all appreciate your fine soles and roundy, pulsing calfs.
Let the grassy knoll carry forth all the gunmen, who spew frothy billets and franken shot.
You are winner and a finner individ you all. Than all the others who begin and individe them sleeves forth wid.
You are not captain legacy but leg a see captain.
Capture greatness; somewhere it's there...
Jerry Ziak!
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God speed you Jay Zeesou.
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Harry good of running.
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Ping me a good forth thought or not and run ferry bee see faster than ordinary.
30 nots and 30:00 spot on 10k float threw a 10 spot hurdless road rash run.
And win everything gracefully.
10mi in 71min + form drills and 100m strides. Quite windy and lots of little branches/debris on the trail. Enjoying this "pure base" period while I can.
I did an easy 25 minute shake out. im put up in a hotel because i have a race tommorow so i was forced to run a down back through an industrial park with huge 18 wheelers flying by me on the left going about 65mph. they were blowing f***ing dust up and i inhaled that shit for about 13 of the 25 minute run. horrible
Don't think any of those will really help with a cold since a cold is a virus and will go away in 7-10 days.
No need to take Zinc unless your deficient. Zinc is good for wound healing, but the only people it will make a difference on are those who are actually deficient likely to be a long term care facility. Too much zinc can cause a copper deficiency leading to decreased hemoglobin synthesis and iron absorption. Eat meat and eggs, skip the supplement.
B complex is needed for the TCA cycle (energy cycle). Sure most of you know that already. Great for after a night of drinking! :) When carbohydrate intake increases, the need for B1 (Thiamin) increases.
Vitamin C. Research doesn't show any benefit of taking Vitamin C after a cold has started. But it does aid in iron absorption and wound healing.
Just thought I'd clarify!
Probably, a cold has to run its course.
26:52 10k.
Ran for 50:03. Steady pace, increasing it every 10 min.
Same as Thur., windy conditions as yesterday. A 30:50 min. run, 10 min. easy w-up, 10 min. at a solid pace, finished recovery/easy running.
FVCK!!!
On May 26th I did a messy stuggling shyte smelly horrible lame weak bastard bitch 17:17 5k.
There were no km markers. I stood at the front with kids and fat people for 10min before the start. I thought it was going to be 18-something. Somehow, for this effort, I got some Bling.
I'll never do this event again.
I am now ill.
Discuss.
May 27-Went on an out and back long run on the C and O Canal. Started off relaxed, turned around at 49 min, looked up at the sky and saw clouds movin in. Pockets of thunder in the sky. Wind picked up a little, it was hot out still, the pollen blew and started agitating my allergies, felt a few raindrops around 1:05, they felt good on this hot day. The rain picked up a little, but not too much, just enough to get the damn pollen out of my eyes and to cool me off. Finished in 46 min on the way back, totaled 1:35. The air was cooler when I finished.
Skuj,
Too bad about the organization of the race and how you felt during it but, dude, even though your goal was sub 17 you are miles ahead of where you've been recently. Just think what you would have done if you hadn't come down with a cold. That fitness is there, it just wasn't accessible during this one. Don't be discouraged my friend!
I just arrived home this afternoon from a weekend in Victoria. Got to visit with some old friends and some old running routes. Beautiful sunny and windy (invigoratingly so) weekend. This after viewing the weather report which predicted 2 days of rain!
On my way out to the ferries on Friday morning I stopped at the track and did my first non-cross-training workout in three weeks. 6 x 1600m with 2:15 recovery in 4:53, 4:54, 4:53, 4:48, 4:45, 4:38. Felt really sluggish during the first 3 intervals and stopped checking my splits after the first one. Realized that my body needed to wake up on its own terms and I needed to forget about preconceived times for this one. Without any extra effort the times started to drop during the second half and I could feel myself becoming more relaxed and efficient.
Today I did my second workout back: 3:00 + 7 x 2:00 with 2 minute recoveries (on the treadmill at 4:30/mile pace)
With 2 races coming up in the next 2 weeks I decided that I needed to shock my body with some pace work so I just set the treadmill at 4:30 pace and ran whatever distance felt comfortably hard. Three minutes felt strong for the first interval, but after that the two minute runs felt like enough of a stimulus. Ended the last two minute interval as an acceleration (like I've been doing in a lot of my sessions lately): :30 at 4:30 pace, :30 at 4:26 pace, :30 at 4:22 pace, :15 at 4:16 pace, and :15 at 4:00 pace. I've been thinking that if I'm not capable of ending a workout this way (without struggling) then I've probably done the preceding intervals too hard (I.e., not at mid-race rhythm).
One more hard workout this Friday, an easier sharpener this Sunday and then a 5000m on Wednesday and a 10000m on Sunday.
Jerry
My running today: I ran down a road I've never been on, and the whole thing was surrounded by blooming Almond Orchards. Kinda cool actually, but even at 9:30 AM it was pretty hot.
6 miles, 42:00, very easy, very leisurely, relatively pleasant.
Went home and customized the insoles on some barely used racing flats my friend gave me. Yay for free stuff!
did a 21 min run. I do have a question though, if you have trained at sea level for 2 years, and then move to 3500 feet, is that enough of a change to wiped out aerobically?