I have COVID for the first time. I developed symptoms and tested positive 5 days ago. The fever is gone and the only symptom left is a weak cough/mild chest congestion. Under the current guidelines, it looks like I can end isolation tomorrow.
When can I try a return to running? Personal experiences/anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.
Nobody can answer that question. They are all dead.
Probably should go to your local CVS and get a Covid booster, flu shot, HIV shot, pneumonia shot, shingles vaxx, and tdap (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) as recommended by the CDC.
You'll be feeling great after that and can go out and run
Nobody can answer that question. They are all dead.
Probably should go to your local CVS and get a Covid booster, flu shot, HIV shot, pneumonia shot, shingles vaxx, and tdap (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) as recommended by the CDC.
You'll be feeling great after that and can go out and run
That’s strangely good advice from carmine today. Is he drunk?
and for OP, I waited until I tested negative before running. let the body heal - better to take an extra couple days of rest to get healthy.
Vax status ? It is becoming apparent that the more mRNA goop a person has taken, the greater their likelihood of becoming sick. Yesterday, I learned of another multi-jabbed friend who is ill again. Poor guy is coughing uncontrollably.
The more vaxxes you have taken, the more gradual and measured your return to running should be.
Probably should go to your local CVS and get a Covid booster, flu shot, HIV shot, pneumonia shot, shingles vaxx, and tdap (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) as recommended by the CDC.
You'll be feeling great after that and can go out and run
That’s strangely good advice from carmine today. Is he drunk?
Newname/Carmine9 always has Vodka for breakfast like every other Russian troll.
I tested for Covid and the flu at the same time. I am vaccinated and received a flu vaccine as well. Felt the worst I’ve ever felt for a day. Got meds that same day and felt like I could function but was still sick the next few days. I ran my normal weekly mileage of 100 but didn’t do workouts.
Probably should go to your local CVS and get a Covid booster, flu shot, HIV shot, pneumonia shot, shingles vaxx, and tdap (tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough) as recommended by the CDC.
You'll be feeling great after that and can go out and run
That’s strangely good advice from carmine today. Is he drunk?
and for OP, I waited until I tested negative before running. let the body heal - better to take an extra couple days of rest to get healthy.
My God.
This guy actually thinks that's good advice!
You certainly can fool some of the people all of the time
I tested for Covid and the flu at the same time. I am vaccinated and received a flu vaccine as well. Felt the worst I’ve ever felt for a day. Got meds that same day and felt like I could function but was still sick the next few days. I ran my normal weekly mileage of 100 but didn’t do workouts.
You got both the flu and covid vaccines and then got the flu and Covid at the same time?
I have COVID for the first time. I developed symptoms and tested positive 5 days ago. The fever is gone and the only symptom left is a weak cough/mild chest congestion. Under the current guidelines, it looks like I can end isolation tomorrow.
When can I try a return to running? Personal experiences/anecdotes would be greatly appreciated.
This is one where there's no math: just listen to your body and see how you feel.
I had covid in the summer and got crushed for a few days. I didn't feel like running at all for a week, and didn't feel reasonably good for another week after that. I took 15 days off after my positive test, and probably 7-9 of those I just felt rotten. On my first day back running, I did a flat easy run about a minute/mile slower, and two miles shorter, than usual. I ran similarly slowly for the first week, and then went back to normal paces.
Looking at the data from my HRV measurements, my heart performance was in the trash for about a week after my covid diagnosis (looking at my HRV data, it started to tank about a day or two before my positive test). My resting heart rate was about 20% too high for about a month (when I first got sick, it was around 70, up from a pre-sickness average of 50, and then settled around 60 for a month before dropping back down to about 50).
Hopefully this helps. In my view, there's not enough known about the long-term risks from covid infections, so it's worth taking a few extra days to come back feeling healthy.
YMMV, but I ran about 9 days after coming down with COVID. Only ran about 2.5 miles, and my lungs definitely felt "weird". Then waited a few more days before running again, and everything seemed normal. Listen to your body, and ease back into the running.
I would plan on very easy aerobic work for the first week, at least.
I have had covid three times, and it hit me different every time when returning to running. The first time, my energy levels were very low for a couple of months. The second time around, there was no doubt that my heart was doing some weird fluttering stuff. When I experienced this while running, I immediately stopped...I had heard of too many examples of athletes having heart attacks to want to try to push myself... Didn't want to be another "I heard of a guy who had covid, then fill in the blank" anecdote. The third time ( a few weeks ago), I had swelling in my knees and feet. Covid messes up your immune response to inflammation, there is plenty of literature on that. On top of that, the spike protein stays in your body for months...just because you have no fever doesn't mean that the poison isn't floating around your body or being absorbed in a place that will mess you up.
Maybe go to the gym and run on the treadmill or bike. You will be around other people if something goes wrong