I've been back at training for about a week since I came down with a bad cold. I went by the book as soon as I started feeling sick (see post). When I started backing off on my training I began to convince myself somehow that this would prevent me from actually getting sick. Wrong. I was actually surprised when I got the full-on cold symptoms and didn't feel like going out of the house.
Compared to how it used to go when I tried to train through an illness I did pretty well. As I described in the last post (see link) I would end up losing pretty much 2 weeks of training because I would be either, 1) too sick to train, or, 2) so sick that my sessions sucked and I wasn't able to recover properly and just ended up making everything worse.
Here's how the two weeks played out this time:
Monday-Saturday: Starting to feel sick. Low volume sessions of speed and weights. I feel relatively good.
Sunday-Tuesday: Blah. I'm super sick and have to save all my energy for complaining about how I don't have energy to do anything except complain. And then I would complain about how my throat hurt from too much complaining. And then I would be sad.
Wednesday: Able to do an easy tempo session. 2.5k 'run' then 600-500-400-300-200-100 with 3 minutes rest at 18 sec 100m pace.
Thursday-Monday: More tempo, circuits, and weights. The intensity is up now but it's still not full-on.
Tuesday: Back to hard training! Speed and weights/plyo.
So, instead of practically wasting 2 weeks with sessions where I end up over-training myself I was able to get in a lot of light/medium ones where I focused on maintenance and working on the things that are easy to neglect, like stabilizer muscles. Missing training is hard, but this was better than the alternative.
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