It continues

The illness has continued today. Man this cold has really kicked my rear end this time around, I haven't had a cold this nasty for a while. If you count Sunday (which I do) this cold has been smacking me down for about four days now. That is pretty rare for me.

With the cold slapping me in the face this morning, today has so far been another day of no training. It didn't even feel like a possibility this morning. I woke up feeling rather awful, very congested and with a headache. Turns out at least some of that was dehydration but at the time I just felt crap. Stay in bed, sleep and feel miserable was the call of the morning.

Sitting here now I am starting to feel a lot more human. I haven't taken any sort of cold and flu medication since this morning and so I think what I am feeling now is actually a fair reflection on my true condition, and it doesn't seem all that bad. I am still a bit congested, but at least my head is a lot more clear, making coherent thought more realistic.

I know I said this yesterday, but given how I am feeling at the moment I am hopeful that training tomorrow will be a possibility. I could certainly do with getting back into it, I am starting to go a little stir crazy, or at least I would be if I hadn't been feeling so tired over the last few days. Feeling rubbish and seeing everyone else out exercising is definitely starting to wear a little thin.

I have been saying that I am not going to rush my return to training, take my time to get over this cold, but I think it is time to give it a crack. I usually find with this sort of cold that I don't feel 100% hunky dory by the time I start training again. That isn't surprising given that it can take a while to get over the last little bit of a cold. Usually I find I get to a point where I am feeling about 80% or so and that will be enough to get out and start exercising again. I usually don't feel smashingly great for the first few sessions as I continue my recovery, but it comes back pretty fast. I think I am probably about at that point now. Not 100%, but good enough to get out the door again and not make myself worse.

Sounds like a plan.

Time to get back to it.