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Think I might have had the Coronavirus as I developed a nasty cough and difficulty breathing mid-April. This ended with a call to 111 and advice to isolate from 16/04 for seven days.
Only just stopped coughing and started to see energy levels return last week. Figured I would try a ride from my door on my local loop (Macc Forest). Whatever I’ve had has knocked me clean on my arse. I’ve never been the fittest, but used to be able to do a basic loop from door to door in about an hour.
For those that know it, I had to get off and push on the hill by High Low Farm and then again on the road that goes up by the Leathers Smithy. I then had to walk most of the bridleway that leads to Charity Lane. In the end I cut left by the barn and looped back home by coming back behind the reservoir. Even the long rocky descent and small steps took it out of me.
Don’t know what the point of this is really. Just wanted to get it down in words for some reason. Sat here now with a tight chest, sore lower back and feeling very disheartened and a bit depressed by it all.
It's a seriously fatiguing illness, you will get back to normal but your body will need to rest for a while first, not least to let your immunity bounce back. I'd stick to something flat and easy for a little while yet, stick to the valley bottoms.
The illness will effect you for longer than you’re expecting. That’ll suck donkey balls, but you know what, you ain’t dead! What you are is recovering, allow yourself time to recover. Adjust your expectations for the next 2 months and you will be fine.
I “think” I probably have had it, and a mild case, I’m not entirely over it, first symptoms for me end of February or first day or two of March. Although I do feel consistently fit which is making a big difference mentally.
Good days will come again!
Sat here now with a tight chest, sore lower back and feeling very disheartened and a bit depressed by it all.
Snap. Horribly familiar.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/have-any-of-us-actually-caught-the-coronavirus-yet-then/
I expect a similar fitness loss and I've not even had it. My one allotted exercise is used to take the dog for a walk.
A great comment I heard the other day that also applies, "I think I'm getting sun tan from the light in the fridge".
I’m pretty sure I’ve had it, in December last year, it dragged on into march!!
I never felt terribly ill, but it lasted a long time.
2 people at my work have had it, one of those died.
If you’re getting better, that’s a positive, even if it’s slow.
Thanks guys. Very naive on my part, but I’m completely shocked by what it has done to me. Very true that I’m in a much better place than a hell of a lot of people and didn’t mean to come across ungrateful in any way. Thanks for the replies though.
Reckon I’ll stick to light pootles on the canal/Middlewood way, maybe visit the pump track around the corner and sign up for that thirty day wheelie course 👍🏼 If I had the spare cash it would be a great excuse to buy a gravel bike 😀
I'm pretty sure I've had it too (see the thread on here) and I'm 7-8 weeks since the start and only just able to ride recently without it knocking me back.
I found during the initial recovery even small exertions messed me and my chest up again. It was depressing. Take it super super easy and ease, flat rides as said and let your body ease back in is what's worked for me.
I didn’t mean it to sound as if i was saying be grateful because others had it worse bud, please don’t think that.
But i too was shocked at how long it dragged on.
Of course I didn’t think it was covid19 at the time, and I’m not certain it was even now.
I wonder how many people have had it but don’t realise.
No offence taken. I still think it was a particularly aggressive chest infection rather than Covid. Shocked is definitely the best way to describe it. Feel like I need a sleep now
I had relatively mild symptoms compared to my better half starting around 20/3 for me and 17/3 for her, but my fitness levels fell through the floor, I've definitely turned the corner but I still get more days than normal when I'm absolutely drained. It probably doesn't help that I'm now often walking ~12+ miles per delivery, instead of ~6-7 miles.
In terms of FTP using 95% of 20min+ efforts, I went from ~294W in mid March to ~266W on Tuesday just gone (having not felt wise or fit enough to try a 20min effort for ~7 weeks), but I managed to drag ~280W out of myself on Wednesday as I was so annoyed at seeing a second consecutive year of good winter turbo progress obliterated by a respiratory infection... I've had to take things quite steady since Wednesday though!
Just listen to your body, take things easy when it feels rough, you will get fitness back given time and patience.
Let's make the assumption you aren't going to get it again..
I'm pretty sure alot of folks who haven't had it may possibly consider swapping places with you..
Sure you are unfit, but you are alive and will be back up and running in a month or 2. But the real positive is that you don't have to worry about getting it again, whilst people like myself, who are currently as fit as I'm ever going to be, have the possibility of losing it all that fitness in a flash, or worse still, dying..
Glass half full!!