Sick Before Your Race? Here’s What To Do.

You’ve spent the last several months training, then one day during the taper, you wake up achy with a stuffy nose and scratchy throat. Yep, getting sick before a race is just about every runner’s worst nightmare.

Before you spiral into a panic or go down a never ending Dr. Google search, take a deep breath.  You may have done everything like you were supposed to, but getting sick right before a race is surprisingly common.

It’s so common that it actually has a name, “the runner’s flu”.

At least,...