I currently have Covid bad. Need some training advice

If Omicron ends the pandemic I will believe that was engineered and released by benevolent aliens.

a very stable genius wrote:

First of all, you don't have covid. trump promised that there would only be 15 cases total and those would be easily cured by drinking bleach and injecting Lysol. Swig some Clorox and you'll be fine.

Funny, but fumigating your nose and gargling with diluted peroxide early on really helps reduce the viral load.

I had COVID as well after getting vaxxed. I ran 3 days in and felt worse on day 4. I ran again on day 7 and was consistent after day 10. By day 20, I was running better than before COVID. I think the rest was very important and the fitness came back quickly. I had read of people training through the disease and having prolonged effects.

F1 Runner wrote:

Let me guess, you haven’t been outside since December of 2019 and have spent that time binge watching CNN?

Claims others get all their info from CNN, thinks you know the "truth", but is soliciting advice from an anonymous letsrun message board.

You might be to dumb to insult. So here's my advice: Covid hates running. Just jump back to 70-80miles a week. Do a bunch of track work to get your HR max up, otherwise you're just being a pu**y building up slowly.....are you that much of a snowflake???

F1 Runner wrote:

I am not vaccinated. Saw no need as a young, healthy teenager. Ironically, I was scheduled to get vaccinated two days after I tested positive. (College I’m going to be running at next year requires it.)

amazing you got into college when you aren't smart enough to realize that there are people on earth other than you

I ran right through covid, felt a bit crappy for 3-4 days and just ran easy effort, was back a week later.

Did you see this in a similar thread yesterday? And it's not just Covid-19 you need to be cautious about. Training through a different illness took him (top US distance xc skier year of the article) out for a year in 2014. People can often get away with training through an illness, but that doesn't make it a smart move. I had chronic fatigue syndrome for two full years when I was young, possibly from trying to train through mono.

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Read this two part series on how a top US skier delt with Covid-19. He needs to use caution and the best available information to make sure he doesn't wreck his health and career (and had wrecked a season previously training through an illness, so now smarter).

https://fasterskier.com/2020/12/david-norris-post-covid-and-easing-into-a-hopeful-winter/

https://fasterskier.com/2021/01/david-norris-post-covid-and-easing-into-a-hopeful-winter-part-two/

LRC fake MD wrote:

I saw this all the time in HS and college. Kids with a moderate illness that could've been knocked back with 2-3 days of rest instead turning it into 2-3 weeks of coughing and fatigue by "crushing" a tempo run and not sleeping to prove "they weren't sick."

This.

Covid puts extreme stress on your immune system. Guess what else puts an extreme short-term stress on your immune system? It's running. The harder you train, the more stressed your immune system becomes.

The smart move is to take a few days off and then start back gradually. This takes DISCIPLINE. Recovery is a critical part of successful running. Your body is in recovery mode now. Have the DISCIPLINE to give it a few days to heal before you start exercising again. Yes, you *might* come through it just fine.... but... you might develop lingering effects that could last for months. It's just stupid to take the risk when you don't need to.

LRC fake MD wrote:

F1 Runner wrote:

I am not vaccinated. Saw no need as a young, healthy teenager. Ironically, I was scheduled to get vaccinated two days after I tested positive. (College I’m going to be running at next year requires it.)

Well given you were too stupid to follow reasonable advice before, I suspect nothing anyone says here will change your mind about running with inflamed lungs.

Hopefully you recover fast, but perhaps consider losing your spring track season a good lesson.

It's December. Lose his spring season?

Listen to your doctor!!!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Rest if your doctor advises you to rest. Do what your doctor recommends.

You can regain fitness losses quickly if you're only off a few days, but you can really set your fitness back months and months and months if you do something foolish.

REST, Lots of light fluids, Vit C, Vit D, a good multi VIT, some REAL nutritious food, REST.

Heal up.

Assuming you're not a troll.

I just recovered from COVID. Thankfully it was just mild symptoms and quarantined in my room all week. I didn't run all week and will be doing easy running for at least a week before jumping back on schedule.

Stop running and get healthy first. You losing a couple days won't harm you in the grand scheme of things, especially if you're already set to run in college. Too many focus on immediate gratification and lose sight of long term development. This is a blip, get healthy, ease into running again and you'll be back.

If you got hit hard you wouldn't be able to walk nmuch less run.

Losing weeks of good training due to misinformation. Unlucky

Just rest until your symptoms ease. If you're too sick to run 7:00 pace that's probably a sign you shouldn't be training. Tons of college athletes have had to take time off for it at some point, plus it's December. You'll be better off rested.

F1 Runner wrote:

I was just starting to slowly build my mileage back up after xc with 5-7 mi runs every day. I have also been exercise biking for 90 minutes a day to supplement more mileage without the risk of injury. A few days ago I tested positive for Covid and it hit hard. Running 7 min pace feels more like 5:45 pace and pushing 200 watts feels like pushing 300. Should I cut out the biking until I get healthier? FYI: I’m not going to stop running. I can’t afford to get that out of shape. Any advice is appreciated.

Bro...come to work with me and I'll show you what getting "hit hard" with covid looks like.

You need to rest. You'll lose more fitness trying to train through it than you will by sitting on the couch for 3 weeks.

You said any advice is appreciated so here goes. Like you've said, you're a young, healthy teenager, so with respect to training I would treat this no different from how you treat any other respiratory infection... REST.

Whether you have a cold or strep or COVID, etc. your body needs a lot of calories to fight those infections. It should be prioritizing all the energy towards fighting illness. The tough part is a lot of the time with respiratory sickness, you lose appetite and can take on a big caloric deficit. What magnifies this fatigue even more is anything that takes calories away from fighting infection: running. Or any sort of training load for that matter. This, combined with the fact that cardio training specifically taxes the respiratory system a lot, which is exactly what is trying to recover from being sick, is why you need to rest.

I'm a mid-d guy, early 20s. Was down bad earlier this month with a sickness that turned out not to be COVID, but I just couldn't stop coughing and had a 103.high fever. I got sick on a Saturday night after a big workout that morning, felt bad on Sunday while I was getting tested and deciding whether to do my long run, took Monday completely off, went back to school Tuesday, and ran easy on Wednesday. So I missed only three days and haven't missed a day since. I didn't even feel like I lost fitness and was suffering in the running post-sickness. Three days taking care of yourself is not enough time to lose any fitness. Obviously your case could be more severe but the way you should approach it is the same.

Drink a bunch of hot water with lemon, black pepper, thyme, turmeric and ginger throughout the day. Sounds gross but all that stuff works wonders for your immune system. Especially if you're anti-vaccine, those values should align with strengthening your immune system in more holistic ways, no? This does exactly that. Zinc gluconate, vitamin D, vitamin C, echinacea, and electrolyte tablets will also give a big boost in your recovery. I do believe that fresh air helps too. If your living situation allows you to leave your room safely, try going out for a chilllllll 15 minute walk once or twice a day. Other than that just lie down and sleep.

At your age not long ago I was in the same mindset towards time off- senior year indoor my coach made me race the first dual meet if the season just a couple days after getting my wisdom teeth out, and I felt like I was being brave, tough, gritty, whatever. My mouth was bleeding for a lot longer than it should have been as a result. You're not invincible but you're also not soft for taking care of your body.

People on here are saying take a couple days off.

I would suggest taking a couple weeks off and then coming back real easy.

I've been following endurance sports all my life and here are some facts:

1. I've never seen pushing through an illness ever end well.

2. I've seen plenty of athletes take a break that's longer than they wanted and come back stronger than ever.

My advice: Take the next 10 days off from any exercise. Then take another 5 days. And then take 1-2 weeks where you don't do a single hard workout.

F1 Runner wrote:

I am not vaccinated. Saw no need as a young, healthy teenager. Ironically, I was scheduled to get vaccinated two days after I tested positive. (College I’m going to be running at next year requires it.)

I hope you haven't ruined your athletic ability or even worse...chronic fatigue, permanent damage to heart and/or lungs. That was a very stupid decision not to get vaccinated.