Coming back from being real sick and need to race soon advice

I am at about 60% right now, but l ache all over still, but l haven't run anything yet today.

Well, I was in your position a few weeks ago and had to drop out of my race I trained specifically for over past 2 months... I was being optimistic but in the end I couldn’t run at race speed for more than 2 minutes before feeling sick. I ended up taking a week entirely off and has taken me a week just to get feeling normal

In the end, it’s your body so you know best but from your symptoms I doubt it will be an instant recovery

It's only been since Friday. Did l lose any fitness?

terrible sickness advice wrote:

Tron wrote:

Well, I was in your position a few weeks ago and had to drop out of my race I trained specifically for over past 2 months... I was being optimistic but in the end I couldn’t run at race speed for more than 2 minutes before feeling sick. I ended up taking a week entirely off and has taken me a week just to get feeling normal

In the end, it’s your body so you know best but from your symptoms I doubt it will be an instant recovery

It's only been since Friday. Did l lose any fitness?

It hit me hard and it took me a while to feel normal..as in 3 weeks from initial sickness. I felt terrible for first week (race was after 1st week do impossible to run). Then ok second week but couldn’t go fast..3rd week I felt pretty close to normal.

I don’t think I lost fitness but just took time for me to get over sickness

Tron wrote:

terrible sickness advice wrote:

It's only been since Friday. Did l lose any fitness?

It hit me hard and it took me a while to feel normal..as in 3 weeks from initial sickness. I felt terrible for first week (race was after 1st week do impossible to run). Then ok second week but couldn’t go fast..3rd week I felt pretty close to normal.

I don’t think I lost fitness but just took time for me to get over sickness

Thanks. I did another one mile jog tonight and it was about 45 percent better then yesterday mornings piddle jog; tonight l took off thinking l could go 20 minutes, but l better play it safe,so after the first 50 meters l running about 60% of my normal easy run pace l has breathing SUPER HARD, so l slowed down, but picked up every other 50-75 meters at about 65% of my recovery run pace normally. l am 49 and just getting back into running seriously in the last 8 months, but when l was running 29:10 for 10k when l was younger, l could run through anything, but then again this virus is different, so l think my old self would be doing the same thing tonight. Needless to say l don't think l lost fitness, but l was having MAJOR breathing problems. So tomorrow, and until l can run at least a mile comfortably, and l will focus on trying to get up to a 30 minute run by Saturday.

I would focus on running easy and ignore pace until you can at least get through a normal length run a few days in a row. Some viruses are easy to bounce back from and others can take a while.

Kvothe wrote:

I would focus on running easy and ignore pace until you can at least get through a normal length run a few days in a row. Some viruses are easy to bounce back from and others can take a while.

I hear that, but there was no way l could go further than a mile tonight, actually it was a mile plus 200 meters, If l wait till tomorrow night l might feel better. l am shooting for Saturday to be doing a slow 30 minutes, and on Sunday a 45 minute run at my normal pace, and doing a session mid next week or something. I am already having the change things since l started the post, after I ran tonight.

And another thing it still hurts to cough, so l don't know what that means.

Tonight l was able to accomplish the whole mile, and 300 meters, or whatever, at 60% of my normal pace for a slow recovery run. This is not really training of any sort, but it is really setting me up for a time line for my return to normal running. I was actually able to talk as l ran. Does anyone do anything like this to gage their return? Again this is not just a little cold or something.

I doubt you're gaining anything from running one mile at a slow pace when you feel unwell, apart from delaying your recovery. Why not wait until you are actually properly recovered: focus on eating well, drinking lots of water, resting, sleeping, etc. Then once you are well, start training again. Problems after viruses are not to be messed with and I often think they are brought on by people ignoring their body and obsessively trying to train in order to put it in their training diary (rather than thinking if they are benefitting from it).