Ex Corona and running?

Im curious about others experiences.

It is now six weeks since I had corona, it went down into my lungs, with shortness of breath,dry coughing occasionally light coloured mucus, and it was like breathing through a narrow pipe. It felt like I was less than 50 percent lung function at its worst. It lasted 10 days , another 10 before I dared run.


But what about after? For me I had the usual post viral lethargy, lasted two to three weeks.

I’ve now been running for three weeks.
But even after all this time, I still notice wheezing at the end of a run. Oddly it is worse after I have stopped, and evident that something still isn’t 100 percent. Not desperate, just noticeable.

How have others got on with corona recovering and running?

Were you tested and had a proper diagnosis Oracle or are you assuming you had it due to your symptoms?

Shortly before the lockdown started i had a 24hr cold, with sore throat, and admittedly a bit of a cough for a few days.

Assumed it was coincidence... however the cough had been lingering to a small extent for several weeks... nothing too bad, just a tickle in the back of the throat, and similar to Oracle, only after a particularly hard run...

It may well have been coincidence, but i rarely get colds, let alone coughs, so i'd be unsurprised if i had had a fairly low level strain of it. Certainly doesn't seem to have had any negative effect on performance that i can see, and i "trained through" without any other issues at all.

I know of at least one other fellrunner who is utterly convinced they've had it twice... once in the new year period, and then caught again at the Aran British Champs race...

edit: i was not tested/diagnosed... just going off assumptions rather than medical evidence...

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Originally Posted by Llani Boy

Were you tested and had a proper diagnosis Oracle or are you assuming you had it due to your symptoms?

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No test. But those who get it badly know it can hardly be anything else.

The dry persistent cough. It is not the usual cough.
The difficulty breathing is unlike anything else I ever had, you can tell your lungs are congested and not working,
It wasn’t a cold: no running nose or sore throat.
It wasnt flu. I’ve had bacterial lung infections and this mucus was a very different colour. This was more like pale translucent sticky saliva. It got progressively worse in the second week before clearing.

I understand that for those that get into serious trouble the mucus starts to harden.

This happened at a time when everyone said there must be a high temperature. Which advice was eventually changed. Long after many had had it but thought it might not be because of temperature.

Many we knew in portugal had had similar before the advice on symptom alerts were changed.
It started in jan in Portugal. The first case I knew was the guy who manages my house over there. He was in a state but still working. At a time Portugal said it had 100 cases we seemed to know half of them.
We met people in a lot of places who had the same cough.

The natural instinct to feeling rough is taking either paracetamol or ibuprofen for the duration, and to help sleep ( which is hard without sitting up) which probably masks the small temperature we had.

OH got it but fought it off after 4/5 days.

Portugal - just like U.K. - tells you not to contact medical services so nobody could report it.

As for isolation: after four or five days it is bad enough that you would not want to leave home.

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Originally Posted by Oracle

No test. But those who get it badly know it can hardly be anything else.

The dry persistent cough. It is not the usual cough.
The difficulty breathing is unlike anything else I ever had, you can tell your lungs are congested and not working,
It wasn’t a cold: no running nose or sore throat.
It wasnt flu. I’ve had bacterial lung infections and this mucus was a very different colour. This was more like pale translucent sticky saliva. It got progressively worse in the second week before clearing.

I understand that for those that get into serious trouble the mucus starts to harden.

This happened at a time when everyone said there must be a high temperature. Which advice was eventually changed. Long after many had had it but thought it might not be because of temperature.

Many we knew in portugal had had similar before the advice on symptom alerts were changed.
It started in jan in Portugal. The first case I knew was the guy who manages my house over there. He was in a state but still working. At a time Portugal said it had 100 cases we seemed to know half of them.
We met people in a lot of places who had the same cough.

The natural instinct to feeling rough is taking either paracetamol or ibuprofen for the duration, and to help sleep ( which is hard without sitting up) which probably masks the small temperature we had.

OH got it but fought it off after 4/5 days.

Portugal - just like U.K. - tells you not to contact medical services so nobody could report it.

As for isolation: after four or five days it is bad enough that you would not want to leave home.

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Oh Oracle! I was waiting for the punch line, like:

I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.

(Bob Dylan)

The dry persistent cough. It is not the usual cough. Yep had that.
The difficulty breathing is unlike anything else I ever had, you can tell your lungs are congested and not working,
It wasn’t a cold: no running nose or sore throat. Agreed
It wasnt flu. I’ve had bacterial lung infections and this mucus was a very different colour. This was more like pale translucent sticky saliva. It got progressively worse in the second week. Just the same as me.

I had all the similar symptoms to you Oracle. Mine was the 2nd and 3rd weeks of February.

I wasn't in any training at the time but my sleep was drastically affected.

Up to 13hours on so weekends and no drive or inclination to do anything.

Training is now improving but I still get at least 2 really sleepy night/days per week which are tough to deal with.

11th March for me.
At the time I didn't think it was. I'd have said 10% chance or less.
Now, looking at the rate of spread even with lockdown, I think it's greater than 50% and Mrs WP had similar symptoms around the same time.
Tickly cough only after exercise t he developed in to a sore throat, worse overnight and when getting up, easing during day, but sticking with me for close to 2 weeks.
A very slightly raised temperature, not a fever. Feeling as if I was coming down with something but never quite did.
A little phlegm over the period of the sore throat.
One day, the 13th, I felt completely wiped out.

As Mrs WP had been off for 5 weeks I mostly walked with her for my exercise, long walks, but not pushing myself aerobically, so haven't experienced any lasting symptoms.

Best just be thankfull you have all recovered from whatever you had and get on with life, but without medical confirmation remember you are working on assumptions so I wouldn`t be letting my guard down.

Stay safe

Just hitting the news today, looks like France have now confirmation for December Covid cases (only surprise is that we haven't heard earlier and haven't heard similar for UK.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world...-Macron-latest

and yes I know it's the Express, but I saw it on Twitter from Katya Adler, the BBC's EU correspondent and so checked it out and most of the articles are in French so far.

We have been musing over whether my wife had Covid as a result of Boris calling an election in December. Let me explain.

There is a fortnightly Chinese-language (Mandarin) prayer meeting at our church. Meetings are on Thursday evenings. On election day the church building was used as a polling station, so we offered our house as an alternative venue. My wife attended the meeting (she doesn't usually, but she is reasonably fluent in Mandarin, although her first language is a different Chinese dialect), and for a couple of weeks afterwards she was feeling rather ill. The worst symptom was her sore throat; when she heard a Covid survivor on the radio describing how it felt like he had broken glass in his throat, she said that is what she felt like.

It is likely that at least one of the other attendees at the meeting had recently been to China, or had been in contact with someone else who had recently been to China. WP's post above suggests that Covid may have been around for longer than we had thought, and it certainly seems plausible that it was in China for a long time before they admitted anything.

Pure speculation, of course, but . . .

I was rough over the new year period, feeling of flu, plus a cough which kept me awake for a number of nights, unlike any cough I’ve had before as there was nothing to ‘cough out’ I was in the office at New Year and felt rough enough to not go near anyone or shake anyone’s hand as I didn’t want to pass on whatever it was that I had, as I recall I didn’t run for 2-3 weeks which is unusual for me.

I recall there being one of those situations where everyone is ill, late in last year... some kind of norovirus was what everyone seemed to think it was... one or two people in my office were in dire straits... in fact one of the directors who was ill at the time has recently been confirmed as having Corona (has thankfully recovered)

Well, we went off on holiday to the Outer Hebrides 3 weeks ago. Had a night in Oban - including visiting Spoons, supermarket and i did a Parkrun. We went across the Minch on the roughest crossing I have ever endured. On our 6th day on Barra my wife developed a slight 'cold', which didn't affect our activities on North Uist, where we went for the second week. Last Saturday as we were driving back I thought I had picked up her cold. Both tested when we got home and we had got Covid!
My wife was hardly ill, but I have been feeling really rough all week and am still not better - though improving. First time for both of us, I knew we would inevitably catch it.
Not run since and am supposed to be doing Ilkley 1/2 marathon next weekend. ( I know - a road race, but its local and I've never done it) Was hoping to go under 2 hours, but probably will not bother toeing the line - £30 down the swanee. Ho Hum.

Well slightly jealous of your holiday (but at least I'm off to Mull and Skye in a few weeks) but had a similar situation on our Easter holiday in Wales. I had what I thought was my usual hay fever but MrsS went down with a sore throat etc. When we got home, we tested and were both positive. However, we were clear a couple of days later and the following weekend did the the great Birmingham run. Not sure how or when we got infected but I guess you never do. Other than a couple of co-op visits, we generally keep ourselves to ourselves and in the campervan, contact with others is minimal.

I've been off running for three weeks now with COVID. Two weeks of feeling ill and off work; last week still feeling tired and needing early nights and the odd nap. This is the third time I've had covid, and I'm resigned to the fact that it's going to take at least another few weeks of recovery. At the moment, a 10 minute stroll tires me out.

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Originally Posted by noel

I've been off running for three weeks now with COVID. Two weeks of feeling ill and off work; last week still feeling tired and needing early nights and the odd nap. This is the third time I've had covid, and I'm resigned to the fact that it's going to take at least another few weeks of recovery. At the moment, a 10 minute stroll tires me out.

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Covid three times sounds like some seriously bad luck. I hope you get back to full fitness soon but, as you clearly realise, this can't be rushed.

I have managed to avoid Covid completely; or maybe, as one friend has suggested, I have had it at least once but remained asymptomatic.

Well, Covid has finally got me. So that is Arenig Fawr and possibly the Brecon Beacons on the 30th out the window!

From where it came I do not know. I was sat outside The Lathkil Hotel on Tuesday evening when a troop of Morris Dancers turned up, so I'm blaming them and their snotty handkerchiefs. I've always thought Morris Dancing a bit dodgy.

Have had a headache for a couple of days but I put that down to a bit of dehydration having raced Peak Forest on Sunday and the 14 mile Hamps Way on Monday, both in this heat. Today the throat is a bit sore and I feel a bit lethargic so I did a test and Bingo.

Some rest in front of the telly watching the Tour is my medicine of choice!

Hopefully I will be negative for my Sweeping Duties at Sheldon next Thursday.

I hope you're feeling better soon Llani. Take it steady when you're feeling better. I'm still post-viral fatigued after my bout a few weeks ago.

Thanks Noel.

Feeling shite today.

At the moment it doesn't feel as if I'll ever get better!

Best wishes for a swift recovery. It is a miserable virus isn't it.

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Originally Posted by Mike T

Best wishes for a swift recovery. It is a miserable virus isn't it.

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Thanks Mike. Indeed it is.

Feeling much better today, despite the heat, after 3 days of constant headache, body ache and sore skin! I couldn't even shower as the water falling on my head and shoulders was too painful to bear.

I haven't had a cough, cold or shortness of breath with it but strangely have been constantly ravenous and eating like a horse.

I've been taking a 500mg paracetamol tablet every 6 hours throughout and sucking on a Strepsil every time my throat got a bit sore.

If I keep improving and test negative on Wednesday, I'll be able to sweep at Sheldon on Thursday.

Covid, the gift that keeps giving! Got it for the third time. My wife started with it on Sunday and I succumbed last night. Not feeling too ill, but thought it was wise not to do the Danefield relays. No races planned for this week end, but I have the Ilkley Half Marathon on 14th. Hope I've recovered by then, but it will give me an excuse when my son beats me - that and being 37years older than him!

My partner got it for the second time recently, but I somehow escaped. I am hoping that a booster vaccine last week keeps it away.