Inevitably I was going to catch a cold with all this training – and so I have. There is nothing fun about having a head full of snot while trying to swim a mile in the pool or bike a couple hours. Everything feels off balance and I can't go a few minutes without blowing my nose or clearing my throat. I can cope with it at this stage but I always worry that I may overdo it. A head cold is one thing – driving myself into near pneumonia defeats the purpose of training. Obviously if you can't train, you go backward – and I don't really have any time to go backward.
This is similar to training for a marathon – with all the miles that are ran - the immune system is weakened and you're bound to get sick. The tightrope you walk is determining how far you can continue to push yourself without making the cold into a full blown illness. Hopefully, I'm smart enough not to push it.
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