I've learned a great deal from Matt Fitzgerald's books and had no idea he'd been stopped dead in his tracks by long COVID. No longer able to run, he's dug down and found a new path--or a new way to follow an old path. I'm inspired once again.
I've learned a great deal from Matt Fitzgerald's books and had no idea he'd been stopped dead in his tracks by long COVID. No longer able to run, he's dug down and found a new path--or a new way to follow an old path. I'm inspired once again.
He got sick and then he was well enough to run a few months later ? Is that typical of what people call "Long Covid" ?
Something about this story does not add up.
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Mr. Fitzgerald had no way of knowing it at the time, but he now believes that the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in February 2020 changed his life. He had traveled to Atlanta to make some promotional appearances ahead of the event and then race in the Publix Atlanta Marathon the day after the trials. “That weekend was much fun,” he said.
After returning home, Mr. Fitzgerald fell ill. His wife soon got sick, too. They both believe they had contracted Covid, though all of this happened before the availability of at-home tests and before widespread government shutdowns.
“We both stayed home and recovered, because hospitals were packed,” Nataki Fitzgerald said.
Mr. Fitzgerald felt horrible for about a month — “It was by far the sickest I’d ever been,” he said — before he slowly resumed his old way of life. In fact, he was running and exercising without issue through the summer of 2020.
“And then it all started to unravel in mysterious ways,” he said. “My neurological symptoms just became showstopping. I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t write. I couldn’t create a training plan. I didn’t want to interact with people.”
I've learned a great deal from Matt Fitzgerald's books and had no idea he'd been stopped dead in his tracks by long COVID. No longer able to run, he's dug down and found a new path--or a new way to follow an old path. I'm inspired once again.
He got sick and then he was well enough to run a few months later ? Is that typical of what people call "Long Covid" ?
Something about this story does not add up.
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Mr. Fitzgerald had no way of knowing it at the time, but he now believes that the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in February 2020 changed his life. He had traveled to Atlanta to make some promotional appearances ahead of the event and then race in the Publix Atlanta Marathon the day after the trials. “That weekend was much fun,” he said.
After returning home, Mr. Fitzgerald fell ill. His wife soon got sick, too. They both believe they had contracted Covid, though all of this happened before the availability of at-home tests and before widespread government shutdowns.
“We both stayed home and recovered, because hospitals were packed,” Nataki Fitzgerald said.
Mr. Fitzgerald felt horrible for about a month — “It was by far the sickest I’d ever been,” he said — before he slowly resumed his old way of life. In fact, he was running and exercising without issue through the summer of 2020.
“And then it all started to unravel in mysterious ways,” he said. “My neurological symptoms just became showstopping. I couldn’t do anything. I couldn’t write. I couldn’t create a training plan. I didn’t want to interact with people.”
When I got COVID, I recovered fine at first, started running again, but 1 month later crashed HARD and then spiraled downward from there. I ended up having long COVID for 6 months after that.