DNS or chance it?

Originally posted by switch

Deb, given that you're still sick and are planning on starting a third round of antibiotics, I think it would be a really bad idea to do this race.  I think you'll most definitely end up further in the hole than you are now, and to do a HIM just to finish because you have been too sick to train (and doing it might make you more sick) just doesn't compute.

Get healthy. Train. Sign up for another race

Originally posted by axteraa

I was trying to think of a way to say this, thank you.

Originally posted by Fred D . This is sage advice. However, in my limited and anecdotal experience, when people are posting questions like the OP is, they fully intend on starting the race and are looking for some affirmation. I'm often wrong though. Btw love the new avatar!

Originally posted by switch

Deb, given that you're still sick and are planning on starting a third round of antibiotics, I think it would be a really bad idea to do this race.  I think you'll most definitely end up further in the hole than you are now, and to do a HIM just to finish because you have been too sick to train (and doing it might make you more sick) just doesn't compute.

Get healthy. Train. Sign up for another race

Originally posted by switch

Deb, given that you're still sick and are planning on starting a third round of antibiotics, I think it would be a really bad idea to do this race.  I think you'll most definitely end up further in the hole than you are now, and to do a HIM just to finish because you have been too sick to train (and doing it might make you more sick) just doesn't compute.

Get healthy. Train. Sign up for another race

Originally posted by StaceyK

I don't know that swimming with a sinus infection is a great idea, even if its just the remnants of one. Is the swim ocean, lake or river? How clean is the water?

Originally posted by GatorDeb

There are only 2 races which would generate this discussion, any other race and it wouldn't even be a question of DNS'ing, Worlds and Kona (I did enter the lottery for Kona and didn't get in). I mean, which 8-hour HIM person gets a free pass to Worlds and doesn't go, right?? Then you add in that it's the last time it's in my backyard and even after qualifying in the future, watch it be in Australia the first time I qualify :\ Add to THAT that it may be a few years by the time I qualify.

I had been told since the beginning by 2 different doctors that I can't make a sinus infection worse and train to my heart's content, and you have that tug-of-war inside whether you should be pushing against it or laying off. I'm close enough to Worlds today that by the time I get well (thinking Monday-Wednesday) it'll be close enough to Worlds where any training won't matter any way. I plan to get on the bike for half an hour around the neighborhood Friday of next week if I feel well because I want to make sure I can handle the bike without being wobbly for safety purposes and then a few hours later thinking a 1-2 mile run, just to loosen up the body, but other than that, I think at this point completely bed rest until Sunday morning of next week is in order.

The one thing I didn't plan on was getting sick Kinda makes sense WHEN I got sick, even, right when recovery was ending and the training restarting.

Originally posted by switch

Deb, given that you're still sick and are planning on starting a third round of antibiotics, I think it would be a really bad idea to do this race.  I think you'll most definitely end up further in the hole than you are now, and to do a HIM just to finish because you have been too sick to train (and doing it might make you more sick) just doesn't compute.

Get healthy. Train. Sign up for another race

Originally posted by gsmacleod



Would it make you feel better if it wasn't really a World Championship but rather a race that is called that?

If that is the shape you are in, there should be no question as to whether you DNS or not, that should be a foregone conclusion.

BTW what does your coach say?

Shane

Originally posted by GatorDeb



But it is

Originally posted by switch

Even with the further explanation, I don't think you should do it. I know it's easy to get hung up on an idea like worlds or Kona, but that really only goes so far. If you're gonna have a crap race because you haven't trained, you've been sick for a long time, and its a tough course on a good day, that is the magic eight ball of life saying "all signs point to no". I have never had an illness which has required three rounds of antibiotics; that would give me serious pause for any kind of training. Virtual double shoulder shake--no racing for you.

Originally posted by GatorDeb

Honestly, what I REALLY want is for it to be 9/9 and have that stupid race be in the past and not the future. I just want it over, one way or another.

There are only 2 races which would generate this discussion, any other race and it wouldn't even be a question of DNS'ing, Worlds and Kona (I did enter the lottery for Kona and didn't get in). I mean, which 8-hour HIM person gets a free pass to Worlds and doesn't go, right?? Then you add in that it's the last time it's in my backyard and even after qualifying in the future, watch it be in Australia the first time I qualify :\ Add to THAT that it may be a few years by the time I qualify.

I want to feel WELL for a handful of days before I even think of anything more strenuous than walking because the last thing I'm about to do is start working out again the first day I feel well and then have a relapse.

In the grand scheme of things no it won't be the end of the world to DNS and to DNF and I don't want to start getting so scared to DNF that I don't start a race, but I'm also not going to start a race unhealthy. At this point in time whether I even start is in question. So my question is not really whether I start sick. My question is, AFTER a few days of feeling WELL, chance it and do Worlds without adequate training, or not start at all. If I'm sick I'm not racing.

I wonder if I were 100% well tomorrow with no chance of relapsing whether the interruption in training would prevent from doing an 8-hour HIM.

So I'm at the doctor's and he's telling me I can train and I'm looking at him thinking, dude, I can barely stand, I'm going to bed after this. He says I can train easy and I'm trying to explain to him any training easy enough that I could manage on a less sick state wouldn't be hard enough to make a difference in tri training anyway so I may as well just stay in bed and he's not getting it (he's not versed in tris), and he's looking at me with this look like I'm trying to weasel out of training, and I finally just gave up trying to explain.

I had been told since the beginning by 2 different doctors that I can't make a sinus infection worse and train to my heart's content, and you have that tug-of-war inside whether you should be pushing against it or laying off. I'm close enough to Worlds today that by the time I get well (thinking Monday-Wednesday) it'll be close enough to Worlds where any training won't matter any way. I plan to get on the bike for half an hour around the neighborhood Friday of next week if I feel well because I want to make sure I can handle the bike without being wobbly for safety purposes and then a few hours later thinking a 1-2 mile run, just to loosen up the body, but other than that, I think at this point completely bed rest until Sunday morning of next week is in order.

The one thing I didn't plan on was getting sick Kinda makes sense WHEN I got sick, even, right when recovery was ending and the training restarting.

Originally posted by GatorDeb You just gave me vision of Seinfeld. Heck, *I'VE* never required three rounds of antibiotics and two steroids to get over something. When it comes to that, I'm 100% the Ironman was the culprit. I can't remember the last time I've been this sick, over a decade for sure. Since I started working out I barely get sick to begin with. I actually give the little bugger props for being able to get a foot in and hold on this long. Then again there's always the possibility it's a virus and I'm feeling better because this is the first time I take a non-antibiotic Really no way to tell with those things, I also may just be getting better because of my body and not any meds.

Originally posted by GatorDeb

If I'm not well I'm not starting, I'm making the decision on how I feel on race morning, I'm just wrestling whether if I feel 100% well by Monday or Tuesday and it keeps up with feeling well into Sunday to go for it.

My coach says to listen to my body. She has given me alternate workouts, switched the type and duration of workouts, pretty much whatever I've asked her to (i.e. I didn't run this week, what should I do tomorrow). She thinks this is a sign to take a couple of months of light training whether I race or not instead of continuing regular training, i.e. one session a day vs. two sessions.

Oh, as far as the race? She won't make that decision for me Keeps coming back with listen to my body. I have already paid for another HIM in October (paid for before I got into Worlds), THAT one she has been very vocal that I should scratch it, 10/19.

Originally posted by dmiller5

Are the steroids legal under USADA?