Battling the sickness

The popular thing this time of year seems to be catching a nice head cold that brings forth sinus pressure, stuffed up nose, hacking cough and fatigue.  Or maybe it's just happening to me?  It has been the case for the last few days and it's not that fun.  Not only does it affect your daily routine, but of course it will affect your running ability to a certain extent too. 
This is one of the main reasons I add a couple weeks to my running program each year incase of injury or sickness like this.  I've never been recommended so many different (legal) drugs that I don't know which direction to go.  I decided to use a couple that have worked in the past, or have seemed to, along with getting a lot of fluids and rest.  It's tough to sleep when you can barely breathe out of your nose.  I shouldn't say it's tough, just really annoying when that's the way you're used to breathing at night and instead have to try and breathe out of your mouth. 
The first attempt at working out with a sickness didn't go so well.  Able to accomplish about 60% of the work outs you set out to definitely gets to your mind.  You want to do it but know using common sense it's not good to push yourself when you feel light headed, are coughing while trying to keep a good stride running and have a harder time breathing than usual.  I make that sound so horrible, it really wasn't too bad, but to me I don't like it at all.  Going to a gym for thirty minutes knowing you can't get what you want done in that amount of time.  Health is a little more important to keep in check, especially when you're working on getting over sickness. 
If you're battling a sickness during your training, don't ever let it get you down.  It might happen and when it does, take it one day at a time, use some common sense (as in, don't push it farther than you know you can under the circumstance) and take care of your self.  Get good rest, drink lots of water, increase the vitamin C intake and take it easy.  You won't lose too much ground trust me.  If you were in any kind of shape prior to it, you'll jump back into your training with very little problems, if any! 
Keep up the good running!!

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