Long time off pool, how do you start?

[WFEGb]

Hello,

this was the second year with bad swimming times from November to March. One to two pooltimes nearly always resulted in a more or less heavy cold with light feaver. Now it seems to become normal with 3-4 pooltimes per week resulting in "...a poor little boy with a runny nose... "

This and last year it was hard to get my stamina back (well, what I'd call it so).

So Andy wrote six pooltimes and he's back, Terry starts with a metric I can only dream of and CoachStuart swims hours and hours and thinks about losing the focus after two hours(!). (My foci are hard to hold for two laps LCM...)

Well, what I'm interested in: How do you deal with such gaps and how do you begin to find your way back?

Best regards,
Werner

PS: Will revive my old thread about grip fix and write some lines how I tried...