RunningAHEAD - Topic: Weird Chest cold symptoms

Etapli61

posted: 8/8/2007 at 9:30 AM

I have recently begun running in the AM's in order to beat the heat as well as to decrease the excuses for not running. However, I have noticed that after the run, throughout the morning I am left with the nagging feeling of a sarting chest cold. I feel a little yucky, but it seems to go away after the late morning. No coughing, just that yucky feeling you get (or at least I get) that implies an impending cold. Okay, so I know the obvious, "maybe I'm getting a cold", but this has been an issue even when I was running in the afternoons, it just didnt seem as noticable. Any ideas out there? Am I turning into a hypochondirac?

Ed4

Barefoot and happy

posted: 8/8/2007 at 1:36 PM

If you're not sleeping enough, or stressed out, or overtraining, or chronically dehydrated, your immune system may not be 100%, and you can be chronically slightly sick. I often feel that running is like an early warning system for my health. If anything is starting to go wrong, I notice it first in how I feel during and after runs. Usually just getting extra sleep and fluids, and sticking to healthy food for a couple days clears up a general feeling of malaise before it turns into a real cold.

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Has been

posted: 8/8/2007 at 7:55 PM

I'm been having the same issues, anonymous running forum girl. How confusing! Cool

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mikeymike

posted: 8/8/2007 at 9:24 PM

Wow two people, both 26, from Lisbon Falls, Maine. What are the odds? Oh and a guy from Cambridge. And I used to live in Cambridge. Wow. And now everyone who's posted in this thread lives in New England. Wow. Oh the topic at hand? Um, no I got nothing. Maybe it's the humidity in the mornings? Wink

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Chenille

posted: 8/8/2007 at 9:44 PM

Quote from mikeymike on 8/8/2007 at 9:24 PM:

Wow two people, both 26, from Lisbon Falls, Maine. What are the odds? Oh and a guy from Cambridge. And I used to live in Cambridge. Wow. And now everyone who's posted in this thread lives in New England. Wow.

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 8/8/2007 at 10:47 PM

I've been to New England...Old England, too. Smile

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eric :)

posted: 8/8/2007 at 11:05 PM

I work in Cambridge now, but used to live there too. Could it be allergy related? Just guessing.

Etapli61

posted: 8/9/2007 at 9:11 AM

Ooo, a coincidence indeed Wink

Me thinks we have been found out PWL. Perhaps it is allergies (and all this darn humidity), as I'm aging I'm noticing less and less resistance to these things. Booo to getting older!

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Burninated Peasant

posted: 8/14/2007 at 10:26 AM

It's been a couple years, but I used to have similar issues in the summer if I ran faster than I should have. I usually just chalked it up to allergies/air pollution.

PWL

Has been

posted: 8/14/2007 at 6:55 PM

Quote from mikeymike on 8/8/2007 at 9:24 PM:

Wow two people, both 26, from Lisbon Falls, Maine. What are the odds? Oh and a guy from Cambridge. And I used to live in Cambridge. Wow. And now everyone who's posted in this thread lives in New England. Wow. Oh the topic at hand? Um, no I got nothing. Maybe it's the humidity in the mornings?

Lisbon Falls is a HUGE town. It's like the New York City of tiny rural New England towns. We've gotta have like 12, maybe 15 people per square mile. Big grin

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