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The beach is still my favorite place to go.At 11 hours away we have only been a couple times.

I'm glad to hear you've found a new energy, Lynne. I know sometimes a workout can become tedious if you're not challenged enough in various way. Now if I could only find a pool for MYSELF. Lexington seems to have an abundance of them. Maybe I'll come down for a comedy club show/climbing/training/swimming trip one of these weekends.

Okay, everyone on this thread seems pretty knowledgeable about swimming. Tell me this: how sick is too sick to swim? I was just starting to notice improvement and then I get this cold! Ugh!

Well, that all depends on how determined you are to train and what your recovery is. :LOL: I've trained on the brink of chunks, but, when my head was throbbing, I couldn't focus and maintain my stroke, OR endurance for 6-8,000 yards, but that was on a team. When I was training for a triathlon I got this really ugly throat infection frmo Lake Erie 4 days before the event and it stuck with me through it. Funny thing about training, it that, though the body breaks down while training, it also heals itself. I've found that if I have a mild chest cold, or runny nose, or sore throat, etc...almost anything besides a pounding headache/body acke flu-like symptoms (which VERY rarely happens to me, thankfully), training actually improves my condition. Training while sick is a personal call, just keep in mind swimming draws a lot of heat out of the body and puts a huge strain on the systems. Chest cold, running nose, to hell with it, swim away, just blow the snot into the pool. :LOL:. Flu-like symptoms, the breakdown might just make you worse.

I always feel better faster if I exercise when sick. The increase in core body temp kills off those little bugs! Plenty of fluid & rest afterwards seals the deal

What about when you get one of those bucket holding while you're on the toilet stomach things?

Seems to be my problem today... my daughter has been sick with it for a week. I can't afford a week of down time in my training. Immodium AD and swim? Hope I can run fast if I need to?

Sneezing snot into the pool is one thing. Leaving a large, diluted, brown cloud of peanuts and corn is entirely different. With the bug you have, I wouldn't reccomend swimming, if only to save the other poor, unsuspecting swimmers. If you're just weith training and such, then, by all means, train away, because the only person you'll "mess up" is yourself (well, projectile vomiting CAN be a problem, I guess).

That sucks Lynne! That is really going around I hear. I just refuse to get sick. Mind over matter! No time for it in my life right now. SO I just post-pone illness!! Try it, it does work!

The stomach bug is hitting a lot of people. Some of my schools have had up to a 25% absence rate. You talk about a way to p**s off a school attendance officer . I hope you feel better soon lynne!!

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I left that stomach bug in a 7-11 crapper in Sweetwater Texas.I felt awful for several days. Alka seltzer really helps Lynne.