I've heard of some people getting it and it not being bad but others say that even after they're better running hasn't been the same. Has anyone gone through it and tried running after? Or does no one actually have it because it is just a hoax?
I've heard of some people getting it and it not being bad but others say that even after they're better running hasn't been the same. Has anyone gone through it and tried running after? Or does no one actually have it because it is just a hoax?
I think everyone's experience is different. I've been of the opinion that it has non-zero odds of negatively impacting my running, so am trying not to get it.
This has come up frequently on these boards. Nearly all replies are “well I was mildly sick for two days and was back at full speed within a week.”
And then someone will come on and go “well what about THIS GUY” and post an article about some guy in NYC who supposedly used to run marathons and now can’t run around the block.
let me free wrote:
This has come up frequently on these boards. Nearly all replies are “well I was mildly sick for two days and was back at full speed within a week.”
And then someone will come on and go “well what about THIS GUY” and post an article about some guy in NYC who supposedly used to run marathons and now can’t run around the block.
Exactly. At this point, all we have are anecdotes. Many people seem to get sick for a few days and then they're fine. Some others have more lasting effects.
Your best bet at this point seems to be: get plenty of rest, exercise regularly, eat well, and take vitamins C and D3 in order to boost your immune system. That said, there are no guarantees.
It is probably no different than any other respiratory virus like the flu.
If you have serious symptoms it will probably affect you for a time even after
the virus is gone, but it is likely (hopefully) not permanent even then.
Pretty much by definition, since a virus reproduces by, essentially, killing
your cells, and a respiratory virus attacks cells in your lungs; even once
you recover you have some healing to do to reach 100% again.
I'm not aware of any cells covid specifically attacks that aren't able
to be healed. Polio, for example, will attack nerve cells, they won't
really come back and you are left paralyzed.
I don't believe that the Chinese virus actually exists.
MAGAKAG
Turtleb wrote:
It is probably no different than any other respiratory virus like the flu.
Incorrect. It is a blood disease the reaches much further to do permanent damage than just the lungs. The people who claim they had it and are now faster are trolls trying to encourage people to risk their lives. The people who claimed they had it and are slower and hopefully still recovering are more truthful. The people who claimed they had it and felt no effects are lucky.
It is up to you whether you want to play Russian Roulette with your health. Trump played the game over and over again. A parable: a cat sits on a hot stove once and never sits on a stove again, whether hot or cold ... it is not going to test it every again. A cat is smarter than Trump.
It's too early to say whether or not the Trump virus has long term effects on running.
It is up to you whether you want to play Russian Roulette with your health. Trump played the game over and over again. A parable: a cat sits on a hot stove once and never sits on a stove again, whether hot or cold ... it is not going to test it every again. A cat is smarter than Trump.
Umm...Trump got Covid and is fine? Seems like he proved himself right.
Young healthy people do better with Covid than with the flu. Those facts seem to bother some people.
wow so good job wrote:
It is up to you whether you want to play Russian Roulette with your health. Trump played the game over and over again. A parable: a cat sits on a hot stove once and never sits on a stove again, whether hot or cold ... it is not going to test it every again. A cat is smarter than Trump.
Umm...Trump got Covid and is fine? Seems like he proved himself right.
Unsurprisingly, the parable went over your head.
Hot Stove = Herman Cain, RIP
Cat = Wears mask and social distances ... Cain's fate is not for me.
Trump = I can't breathe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYEQOa_DIEGrimace ... Grimace ... Grimace ... Grimace ... Grimace ... Grimace ....
Yes, the covid thing has helped me to be quite a bit faster now than I was at the start of the year. Plus before this I was going fast twice a week, but now I'm recovering so fast that I've done up to 8 fast days in a row, and only backed off due to smoke from the fires.
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Besides that, every day I have kept looking for a covid19 virus and haven't found even one of them anywhere.
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Does that mean the covid thing is a hoax?
Due to censorship of the truth, you'll need to make up your own mind about that.
I think a big reason for my improvements is that I don't ever wear a mask, because this way I can get the most benefits from my training and from the covid thing too, so it's a win-win situation!
I got coronavirus July 4th weekend. I had symptoms for a few days but nothing too serious (lost taste and smell, no energy, couldn’t catch my breath at some times) and tried to get back to running once I started feeling a little better. I couldn’t hardly make it 2 miles without feeling very light headed and like I was going to pass out. So I took a couple more weeks off. Started running a little bit and then a little bit more. I ran a 5k about 3 weeks after I had covid. I felt fine after the 5k at first but then I got home and had to lay down. My chest felt tight and my heart rate was pretty high. I took a couple days off of running. Then I started back and was feeling better. I would still have random spells of getting light headed during a run. I haven’t felt light headed in the past few weeks and I actually just had a 10k PR of 34:53. I was worried for a while that it was going to mess up running for me.
If it gets to your lungs, you are done, like me.
The reason why people who have covid for only a week or two seem to recover is because it doesn't get to their lungs.
I've run through the flu and back to speed a couple months later.
But when covid hit I couldn't even walk.
Months later despite the best effort to retrain I've lost 50% of my vo2max/performance and it's likely never coming back, I simply cannot breathe properly anymore. I can do the miles which is odd, I just can't go at any reasonable pace because I immediately become anaerobic. But if ever want to run a five hour marathon, got that down I guess.
Just like running performance, the way covid hits you is likely mostly genetics. Yeah yeah there are endless studies on Vitamin D, I always took lots of that and got an hour of sunshine daily. Covid still wrecked me.
So unless you just want to gamble with the rest of your life and not being able to run, wear a damn mask and minimize interacting with other people until there is a vax in a few months, you made it this far, you can make it a little further.
The flu is much more dangerous to young healthy people. Betting you don't wear a mask and stay away from people for 4 months every year.
About 20 years ago I had a pneumonia or flulike illness that did the same to me. I was young, stupid, and didnt go to a Dr. I dont know what I had but I was never the same. A recent lung capacity test showed that it is 85% of what it should be.
We should underestimate any virus.
achoo wrote:
If it gets to your lungs, you are done, like me.
when covid hit I couldn't even walk.
I've lost 50% of my vo2max/performance
I simply cannot breathe properly anymore.
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wear a damn mask and minimize interacting with other people until there is a vax
So you're wearing a mask, and you wonder why you're sick????
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You're sick because you're wearing a mask, not because of some imaginary virus.
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You wore a mask, you got sick, and now you want other people to get sick.
That is definitely sick!
wow so good job wrote:
It is up to you whether you want to play Russian Roulette with your health. Trump played the game over and over again. A parable: a cat sits on a hot stove once and never sits on a stove again, whether hot or cold ... it is not going to test it every again. A cat is smarter than Trump.
Umm...Trump got Covid and is fine? Seems like he proved himself right.
Well, we don't know that he is "fine", although he certainly is better than he was a week ago.
We also don't know if he will have any long term consequences.
In any case, Trump's experience doesn't tell us the effect on a runner because Trump is not an athlete of any consequence and doesn't even try to exercise. He might be 100 percent fine in a month or less, or he might have long term lung damage that we never hear about. The only thing we know is that we can't accept what he says about it as truth.