Re: Running with a cold

>Thanks to Thanksgiving I now have my
>fist cold since starting this crazy means of exercise.  Any suggestions.

i'm sure you will get plenty (of suggestions).  personal experience is, you
will recover much faster if you take a few days off as opposed to continued
training.

sooooooo, if you are training for a particular race in the near future, i would
continue training.  if not, i would take a little rest.

long story short:  right before the 2002 boston marathon i got a bad cold but
still had an 18 miler on my schedule.  went ahead and did the long run and
suffered no ill effects other than the cold lasted for a couple of weeks.  

about a month ago i got a bad cold and had been running on a reduced schedule
due to another minor injury, with no race in sight, thought i would just back
way off and walk for awhile........got over that cold in just 3 days.

fwiw....
cs