Summer colds suck!

[Owlie]

I picked up a cold while on vacation. I'm normally the first one to say "don't ride if you're sick", but in this particular instance, everything but my head and throat want to go out. Common sense, however, tells me to stay in, which sucks, because I'd wanted to do a metric sometime this month. Probably not going to happen, especially since I start a new job on Monday.

[jessmarimba]

I'm not sure how to vote on that, either. I did a 12 mile long run about 2 days after getting a thoat/nose cold (maybe 2, 3 weeks ago?), and I did better than I expected. I got really sick about 2 days later but I don't know if that would have happened anyway. Colds are nasty little buggers.

[nuliajuk]

I got a nasty one last year, also while on vacation. The hostess at the bed and breakfast offered me a drop of oregano oil to put under my tongue. She insisted it would shorten the cold. Well, it possibly did, but what a horrible taste! Still, it did relieve the symptoms for a couple of hours at a time.

[lovelygamer]

I tell you what is it with summer sickness this year? I got a stomach bug yesterday and I thought I was going to die. I'm in one piece today, but barely. I think summer sickness is the worst. I can tell you, I"m not on my bike. It's 100F here.

[OakLeaf]

Ugh. Feel better. And at the risk of repeating myself for the umpteenth time, black elderberry extract.

[ny biker]

I just use lots of Cold-Eeze when I get a cold, and rest until the exhausted feeling goes away. I used to push through it, but the cold goes away faster if I rest.

[zoom-zoom]

I spent half of my honeymoon with some sort of flu...I had fever, chills, and horrid respiratory garbage. I almost certainly caught something on the flight. It should be illegal to get sick on vacation!

Hope you feel better really soon!