Hey all, I’m sure we’ve all dealt with this but I am still curious what others do in these situations.

I don’t often get sick but when i get a cold it seems like respiratory symptoms always lingers long after my energy levels return to normal. I’m going on day 8 of no training and I’m getting frustrated. I know typical advice is to refrain from training until respiratory issues resolve and then start in with one day of zone 1/2 easy runs for each day of illness. So how about it, do you ease back into training once you feel well (but may still have a cough)? Or do you wait until every last evidence of the cold is gone? If I continue to wait, it seems like this could be a 14 day lull in training. That will royally mess with my season of climbs and running that I have planned.

Background: I completed a AnT test recently to see if I was ready to progress into base building (I am) and then going into the next week I added a pickup run to the schedule. Following that, I flew (in an airborne petri dish) to Oregon and got a little carried away on a trail I love running there and put in too much duration immediately after a long travel day followed by poor quality sleep. I recognize now my mistakes, naturally.