I know. Its a close friend, and I feel terrible for them.
Best wishes to your friend, we lost a close friend to covid in January, she was a healthy 50 year old women with 3 grown children and two still in school. Very sad.
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Ooof thats terrible to hear. Thank you for the good wishes.
I’m just getting over Covid myself, although my case wasn’t nearly as bad as yours. It started out as post nasal drip that I noticed while sleeping. That went on for two days and then on the third day I felt like I had a full on head cold with a pretty nasty sore throat. The next day I felt like I had strep throat and I had a mild fever. At this point I also noticed shortness of
breath and becoming easily fatigued, although I was exerting myself at the time. That was also the day I testd positive. The next day the fever was over but I still had the very sore throat. After that I started to feel better and the main symptoms were extreme sinus and chest congestion. I didn’t have much trouble with exercise, breathlessness or fatigue, but I expelled a crazy amount of mucus for the next two weeks.
I’m finally just now feeling like I’ve gotten over it. So for me it was 3 days of feeling really awful and 3 weeks of feeling like I had a particularly nasty head cold. FWIW, I’m 53 years old and got the J&J vaccine a year ago and a Moderna booster in November.
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For me it was also like a cold. It took me 11 days to test negative, at least 6 of those days I felt non symptomatic. It’s this after effect that’s fouling me up.
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I have three Pfizer vaccines and I didn’t even think I had covid, I just thought it was a little bit of allergies, but when some family also had these ”allergies” we checked and turned out to be covid. I never really felt bad, lasted a week maybe if even that, back around January or so when the weak omicron variant was on the loose. Didn’t affect my unicycling, it was not the greatest weather to ride in but I was messing around in the driveway practicing tricks and whatnot. I wish you a full recovery.
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I’m in the post-COVID club too. I have COVID in January, and ever since then things have been suboptimal.
Prior to getting it I was running, bicycling and unicycling several times a week. Since then my ability to exercise has been impaired, mainly due to ongoing breathing difficulties. Running is right out. Unicycling kind of depends (muni is ok, sustained road riding not so much). Bicycling seems to be almost unaffected.
The advice from the doctor is to basically just do what I can but be prepared for recovery to take 6+ months. There’s not much I can do other than enjoy the things that are currently possible.
Sorry to hear this, I hope you’re back to full fitness before too long.
I eventually had covid earlier this year but thankfully it was no worse than a mild bout of flu, but my wife really suffered and it took her a few months to get back to full fitness with easy regular breathing.
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COVID reached me end of March this year. It was a little bit hard but it was okay. I had problems with breathing, body aches and zero power. The most time I stayed in Bed. My body was already a bit broken before COVID. My Fitness Level wasn’t high. Heart und Lung Problems always. After COVID I don’t really start training. I ride the Unicycle but not so hard. I’m glad my body is still holding together. There are many body parts that are broken or no longer function properly, all before COVID reached me.
Fight back to your normal Fitness Level.
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I just got back from my longest ride since having covid in April,. I rode 2 miles on my 29er, in the lot where I regularly train. The first 1/2 mile was rough, so much so that I stopped and sat on my tail gate for 10 minutes contemplating if I should continue. I mustered up my courage and hopped back on, riding the other mile and a half. It got much easier as my riding evened out , it felt really good to be back on my 29er. My normal training ride is 5 miles, looking forward to building up to that over the next month, I’m very confident I will get there.
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I am still struggling 4 months out from covid. I walk 2 miles daily and am riding uni 2 days a Week 2 miles at a clip and biking 5 to 10 miles once a week. While it is getting better gradually it’s been very slow coming. Am far behind my plans for the summer.
Well thats both good and bad news I guess. I am happy you are recovering. I wish it were faster for you.
My friend that I mentioned above - they got the heart transplant two weeks ago. Time will tell how that goes.
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I was an early COVIDer a long time ago: my lungs image looked like a slice of salami… (though frankly I didn’t feel that bad) It took me around 4 to 6 months to learn to breathe normally … be patient. I went through every vaccination process and didn’t got it any more (though my significant other got it twice)
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I got COVID for a second time a few weeks ago. Much easier recovery this time around - I haven’t tried any long rides since, but my breathing is much easier than last time.
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I had also problems with my Breathing. If you lying in the bed and you can’t move your body because all them is hurting and the must time I’ve focused on my breathing. After 1,3 hour it goes a little bit better and it was possible for me to move my body and standup. Terrible.
Hope your on the mend.
Yeah, it’s goes better. But I’ve a problem with breathing generally and with my heart. Also with my eye disability 
, I see 20 Prozent over all.with help, and with my back. Yeah I’ve been an unicycling scrap heap. 
. But it’s okay for me.
I had it over a year ago. The worst symptom was a headache. After that went away, I went back to the gym immediately and started doing cardio. I typically do more strength training but my doctor ordered cardio. I think he was right. It was a good method for progressive recovery. Make sure you have a doctor you trust, get their advice and then trust that advice!
Covid caught me just before Unicon, two days of feeling pretty miserable and sick, so I missed the first week (and all Muni competitions). Fortunately, I did recover quickly and could go for a ride every day the second week of unicon.
I tried to keep my efforts relatively easy, which I mostly managed to do, with the exception of trying to keep up with Ben on the uphill of the social ride, where I went into full suffering mode, just to find the rest of the group we had split up from decided to hitch a ride up the hill in the truck…
I was confident enough in my fitness to compete in the hillclimb. I still went for more controlled pacing than I otherwise may have, but my lungs did not seem to be affected anymore, or at least my legs were the bigger weakness.
I have however lost a good amount of my top end power in a combination of:
- Commuting to university by bike so much this summer, that I didn’t really have capacity to train harder efforts anymore
- A week quarantined at home in bed or in the garden in my hammock, (with the rare walk or slow bike ride)
- Only really getting back into any harder efforts and “real” training now, a friend of mine has been suffering from chronic fatigue after covid for years now and I don’t want that to happen to me, so I’m relatively careful.
I obviously can’t be sure how much of my lost fitness is from just the lack of training and what might be a longer effect of the sickness, but I’m relatively sure that, fortunately, most of it is just the lost training which is in my control.
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6 month covid report. I’m going to call this the lost summer of cycling for me. I have struggled with getting my cartio pulmonary stamina back. I have worked hard walking daily, unicycling and bicycling several times weekly. I have lost 15 pounds but I still struggle with shortness of breath. While I planned a 150 mile bike trip this fall I ended up settling on a 23 mile day trip and I am Greatful for that. I have definitely improved but more is needed. As the weather changes here in Western Pa. I plan on walking outside until it is to cold then switching to elliptical and total gym indoors in the am them indoor uni at the wheel mill in the evening. I am planning several long bike trips next year as well as getting on the 36 coker I refurbished last winter. Bottom line covid sucks and has set me back years in my fitness.
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